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Name: THE OLD BAILEY . Favorite quote: "Defend the Children of the Poor & Punish the Wrongdoer". Location: London. Hometown: LONDON Places lived: ALWAYS ON OLD BAILEY , LONDON. More about you: BUILT IN 1907 AND ADDED TO IN 1972 ON THE SITE OF NEWGATE PRISON. Occupation: A place of history and law. THIS WEBSITE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CITY OF LONDON OR THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE.

Wednesday 24 November 2010

The points about the cigars and the 'killer on the run' ARE COMPLETE RUBBISH.

INDEX : THE OLD BAILEY
ES magazine , 12th July , 1996.
By John Hind.
The first Old Bailey was built in 1539 ( as a sessions house adjoining Newgate Prison ), but the world famous baroque building was constructed in 1907 for £392,277. The Corporation of London is currently planning £20 million of judicious renovations.
ES takes a calculator to the Central Criminal Court
 
·         Days the beaks sit each year : 230.
·         Square cms of gold leaf on the Lady of Justice : 218,750.
·         Years since the last public hanging on site : 128.
·         Cases tried per average week : 70.
·         Most cases halted in a year due to attempted jury/witness nobbling : 13.
·         Longest jail sentence ever passed : 42 years.
·         Cost to the nation per hour if you turn up late for jury service : £1,500.
·         Years since the first female presided as a judge : 24.
·         People entering the complex in a year : 850,000.
·         Times the Old Bailey has sat on a Saturday : 4.
·         Years since shorthand writers in Court 17 requested a ‘ modesty panel ‘ to stop barristers looking up their skirts : 7.
·         Money buried in the time capsule under the foundation stone : £2,1s,4d.
·         Least value of property for which a person has been prosecuted for stealing heard in Court No.1 in the 1990s : 20p.
·         Most cigars ever stolen from a judge’s supply room in the Sheriffs’ corridor : 2,000.
·         Weight of each Bailey gate at the Warwick Street entrance : 25cwt.
·         Years since the last female prosecuted under the Witchcraft Act : 52.
·         Fine received for painting ‘ George Davis is innocent ‘ on the Old Bailey walls : £180.
·         Number of electronically controlled doors the post-boys have to pass through : 42.
·         Killers on the run known to have worked as Old Bailey security guards : 1.

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