Article 60SQT Woman charged with perverting course of justice told to represent herself in legal first

Woman charged with perverting course of justice told to represent herself in legal first

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Diane Taylor
from World news | The Guardian on (#60SQT)

Elishah Anderson was told no barrister can take her case in murder trial owing to industrial action

A woman accused of perverting the course of justice in a murder trial has been told she must represent herself in court because there is no available barrister, in what is thought to be a legal first.

A trial over the killing of Jobari Gooden, 27, who was stabbed outside a Peckham barbershop last December, is under way at Southwark crown court.

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