A headline saying - Rhys "killer" now named - before the trial starts in October is a disgrace. Inverted commas do not excuse you.

The media is walking rough shod over the broken justice system and nobody seems to care.

I think the precedent was set when the judge released the name and previous convictions of Roy Whiting to the media and suggested that Whiting was the killer of Sarah Payne even before the trial began. That was a disgraceful move which seriously prejudiced the jury and made a fair trial impossible.

The courts must always remain impartial and objective, giving equal consideration to both sides in a quest to find the truth, regardless of what that truth is.

No idea if Whiting was guilty or not. I merely criticise the way the system was manipulated to ensure a conviction.

This seems to be common practice by the Police in league with the media when they know their case is very weak......

Totally wrong.

I believe we should ban all pre judgement discussion in the media about any trial. The media is now influencing trials in a way it should not be allowed.

We are seeing SHOW TRIALS take place which later are found to be based on no evidence. What a waste of money and it actually is an insult to victims that they dont get real justice.

I've been a juror only once-on a case involving a young bloke ( busted at Harrods !) accused of being a serial shoplifter.

The difficulty was that the prosecution inferred numerous other shoplifting crimes with little proof,

From my experience the jury system can be frightening..some were ready to vote "guilty" or "not guilty" asap to get out as soon as possible.

2or 3 took the line he was obviously guilty of one charge so he must be of others..very scary..and one kept saying "just loook at him-you can see he's a thief"

Finally sense prevailed and we found him guilty only of the Harrod's shoplifting charge ( which even he couldn't deny-but he denied the other charges).

He got a good behaviour bond..I later heard he sent a note to the judge who felt great sympathy for him as the note said the reason he was stealing dresses from Harrods was that he was a closet cross dresser and couldn't afford to buy new frocks !