As a teenager in 2018, Dhillon Shenoy was among the crowd of fans and press at Wimbledon magistrates court when TV star Ant McPartlin was sentenced for drink-driving. He recalls the scrum of photographers outside the southwest London courthouse, while inside journalists and members of the public jostled for courtroom seats in a case which captured the national spotlight.
Now Dhillon is back at the same magistrates court in 2023 on a much more sedate day, volunteering for the Court Watch programme and aiming to examine the opposite side of the justice coin: the cases unlikely to appear as newspaper headlines but which are no less important to the people caught up in them.
