{"id":471599,"date":"2026-03-12T14:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471599\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:17:09","slug":"mandy-wixon-who-kept-vulnerable-victim-as-slave-sentenced-to-13-years-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471599\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandy Wixon who kept vulnerable victim as slave sentenced to 13 years &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is it like inside the courtroom?published at 12:07 GMT<\/p>\n<p>12:07 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-5adjh7-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/33c14b48-c65e-4590-b138-41a08ebed3af.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Phil Mackie<br \/>At Gloucester Crown Court<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucester Crown Court is more than 200 years old and for that reason the way proceedings take place are unusual by modern standards. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In most newer courts, defendants appear in the dock behind a screen, and there\u2019s a degree of separation from lawyers, police, court staff and the press. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Court One here is a grand, wood\u2011panelled, semi\u2011circular room, rather like a small amphitheatre. It looks much more like a television drama than the vast majority of cases because many TV shows use older courtrooms, no longer in use, in which to film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Here, the defendant is brought upstairs by security guards from cells below, into the well of the court, rather than escorted in via a side door.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That means that police officers who gathered evidence against her, are sitting directly to Wixon\u2019s right, and we are sitting on her left, barely a metre away. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is it like inside the courtroom?published at 12:07 GMT 12:07 GMT Phil MackieAt Gloucester Crown Court Gloucester&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-471599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}