Scripts

Judge’s script:

Have you reached your decision?

“We have your honour”

The court has very carefully considered and weighed the aggravating and mitigating circumstances found to exist in this case.

The court finds, as did the jury, that the aggravating circumstances present in this case outweigh the mitigating circumstances present.

Accordingly, the defendant ___________     ___________   is hereby sentenced to life imprisonment, with no chance of bail, for ___________     ___________ 

Newsreader’s script:

I’m standing here outside the very courthouse where just five weeks ago, ___________     ___________   was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Now, after just that short time, police are now searching for ___________   after he escaped from prison having left messages scratched into his cell walls that indicate he is seeking vengeance on those who put them there.