And the Court fell over itself to be sympathetic to said “woman” about “her” failure to appear due to the fact: “I was terrified. I didn’t know how you were going to address me in court. That played with my anxiety.”
The Magistrates have clearly read, marked, & inwardly digested the Equal Treatment Bench Book, because:
Keith Southward, chair of the magistrates’ panel, told Davies: “You will be addressed as you wish to be addressed, so don’t worry about it.”
And of course it’s just grand for their bail conditions to let them keep their job at ASDA. Because we mustn’t inconvenience paedophiles, must we?