It wasn't a high profile trial, and it was ten weeks long as there were multiple defendants. There was nothing reported in National newspapers, and no extensive reporting of the offences or the accused. Before the jury was sworn in, no-one had any inkling about what the case was going to be about. Some days there were short columns in the local newspapers of what had already happened in court. What was reported in those columns made me realise that what gets reported in newspapers is not necessarily how things really are.