sherdley commented Judge locks up burglar for swearing from the dock

Defendants who swear at judges will go to prison – as one man found when he fired a stream of expletives in court and tried to smash up the dock.Judge Andrew Hamilton added two months to Lewis Pickering's sentence for contempt of court today.And the experienced JP said he had never seen such a performance in the 14 years he had been a judge."You must not behave like that again," he told a repentant Pickering, who stood solemnly in the dock after his outburst."People can't...