Respect the judge, media asked
Journalists were asked on Wednesday to keep their murmuring down and respect Judge Thokozile Masipa during Oscar Pistorius's murder trial in the High Court in Pretoria.
Oscar Pistorius sits in the dock inside the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Monday, March 3, 2014. Pistorius is charged with murder for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentines Day in 2013. (Themba Hadebe, POOL)
“The most important person in this room at any given time is the judge,” a court official told the press in the public gallery of court GD.
The woman official said she could see Masipa frowning just after she adjourned proceedings on Tuesday, as the journalists began talking amongst themselves before she had left the room.
“Please keep your murmuring down to the quietest whisper,” she said.
– Sapa
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