public gallery

Sitting in the public gallery, it was rarely dull.

Mayor Zafar Iqbal took up the role on Tuesday but the event saw shouts from the public gallery including one woman angrily yelling: "Could you take an £8,000 pay cut?"

The guilty verdict for murder was met with cheers in the public gallery from members of Mrs Flynn's family, who had sat through the entire trial.

The defendant, from Port Talbot, south Wales, looked up to the public gallery and was given a thumbs up by one of his supporters following the verdict.

Ovsiannikov's wife, who was in the public gallery on Friday for the sentencing, was cleared of four counts of circumventing sanctions by assisting with payments totalling £76,000 to her husband in February 2023.