JUDGE CAN'T TAKE THE RAP!
A 17-year-old youth, up before the judge on two charges of entering a dwelling with intent and stealing, let his mobile ring with the music of US rapper Akon yesterday. Thing is, he was sitting in the front row of Darwin Magistrates Court when it happened.
It seems that magistrate, Daynor Trigg, can't take the rap; in fact, he became quite irate and sent the boy to the cells for three hours.
When the boy answered the phone Magistrate Trigg shouted, "How dare you answer a phone in court ... that allows transmissions from court ... which is a serious contempt." Thing is, if the boy didn't answer it, it would have continued to make that incessant, appalling noise, wouldn't it!
I think this was what is termed a 'no win situation.'