This was the moment a judge sentenced a student to 15 years in prison for stabbing another young man to death - captured on camera in a historic first for Manchester's courts. A TV camera was allowed into the city's crown court for the first time in a Manchester homicide case, following a change to the law.
Judge Nicholas Dean KC, the Honorary Recorder of Manchester, was filmed as he sentenced Shiloh Pottinger for stabbing 19-year-old student Luke O'Connor to death. The sentencing of Thomas Cashman, for the murder of Olivia Platt-Korbel in Liverpool, was the first case held at Manchester Crown Court to be televised, after the trial was moved to this city.
But the sentencing of Pottinger, for Luke's manslaughter, was the first Manchester case to be filmed and broadcast. Unlike in the US, the only part of the court hearing that can be filmed is the judge's sentencing remarks.
