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To Woolwich Crown Court, where Judge Peter Openshaw recently brought the internet terrorism trial he was hearing to a halt while a witness was giving evidence about an extremist web forum.
‘The trouble is I don’t understand the language. I don’t really understand what a web site is,’ he said, adding that he hoped a computer expert should ‘keep it simple’ when he gave evidence.
Later the Judicial Communications Office attempted to clarify the situation by insisting that the judge was ‘entirely computer literate’.
Which was just as well: the trial was in its fifth week.
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