Judge ‘not insured to see teenager in cell’

A magistrate failed in his bid to deal with a teenager in his cell because he was not insured to do it. District Judge Richard Hawgood resorted to the ‘widely decried’ method after 18-year-old Ahmed Omar told police he was not leaving his cell at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. The judge was prepared to take lawyers and members of court staff down to the cells but was told ‘insurance doesn’t cover it’. Judge Hawgood said: ‘I don’t think I have the…