Judge enforces ‘social distancing rules’

A judge had to enforce ‘social distancing rules’ in court as a 71-year-old woman aided by an interpreter was cleared of assaulting an elderly man. Moroccan Malika Chbani was accused of kicking Shirzad Farshci several times in the leg before he crawled away outside Sainsbury’s in Edgware Road, central London, last December 9. Mr Farshci failed to attend Westminster Magistrates’ Court and Ola Oyedepo, prosecuting, urged the judge to adjourn the case. District Judge Samuel Goozee said the court would…