We went to court yesterday. Arrived early- shouldn’t have bothered barely anyone arrived until 10:15. We went into court 8. I’m guessing there was overflow press in, some I guessed police and a few public members- perhaps 10. There was a little talk from the barristers before it began. Lucy was quietly spoken, faced ahead, never looked at the prosecution once, seemed particularly quiet with short answers to the prosecution, but a little more at ease with the judge. The prosecution man was lovely with her, not in the slightest intimidating, calm quiet and everything was said nicely. After the first hour he was asked to speak up not everyone in the other court rooms could hear. He very nicely asked Lucy if that was ok, that he wouldn’t use a different tone. Only that he would be louder. He did forget and he went quieter. He also asked her if she needed more time to look at things etc at times he thought she might need it. I was a newby to court and was expecting the prosecution to be quite firm, almost angry and he was the opposite. IMO if it was me in the box I wouldn’t be intimated by him. She only breaked to drink water once to my recollection. Tbc