How do I find out what happened in court?

[bainbridge]

Someone who I knew since I was 5 who went off the rails in his teens was up in crown court and I'm having trouble finding out what happened.

I've been trawling the web and found a newspaper website detailing his arrest last year, and registering with thelawpages.com brought up his court date and case number, but all it says is:

Details: Trial (Part Heard) - Summing Up - 10:09
Trial (Part Heard) - Jury retire to consider verdict - 10:24

So does that mean afterwards he gets told what his punishment is?

How do I find out what this was?

 

[funguST]

Could prolly ring up the court and ask.. i know if you're on the jury you can ring up and ask the sentence etc.. no idea how it works for joe public.

 

[httk]

So all you need to do is pretend to be a jury.

Isn't there a mutual friend or friend of the family you can ask?

 

[KaHn]

What does it matter to you? If you've known him for so long, ask him?

KaHn

 

[Caged]

You don't need to pretend anything. It's a public record, you just phone the court and ask.

 

[Atlas23]

Get a hammer, wear a wig,

and YOU decide the outcome!

 

[DJMK4]

Ask him/her?

Phone up the court?

 

[Strife212]

You don't need to pretend anything. It's a public record, you just phone the court and ask.

 

[Suarez7]

Curiosity killed the cat.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Bake him a cake with a file inside
Send cake to friend c/o "The Slammer"
????
Profit

 

[Greboth]

You don't need to pretend anything. It's a public record, you just phone the court and ask.

This pretty much. If memory serves if the information isn't published somewhere you can request it though it would be under a Freedom of Information request which has to be in writing. I haven't had much dealings with FOI so my memory may be wrong so ring them and see what they say though be prepared to put it in writing.

 

[eatcustard]

It will be in the local paper

 

[Werewolf]

This pretty much. If memory serves if the information isn't published somewhere you can request it though it would be under a Freedom of Information request which has to be in writing. I haven't had much dealings with FOI so my memory may be wrong so ring them and see what they say though be prepared to put it in writing.

If it's a crown court (by the sounds of it, it is), in a few weeks time at most the Judges verdict and reasoning should, from memory be posted on the HMRC judiciaries website.
It's usually pretty interesting to read the judges summary and reasoning behind a sentence - and quite often completely different to what is reported in most of the papers.

 

[Biohazard]

HMRC would only hold information relating to legal action it was involved in.