Soiled? Foiled! Cop’s sprint to Sports Direct keeps trial on track

  A judge has commended a detective who saved the taxpayer thousands of pounds by nipping out to buy clean trousers for a killer who deliberately soiled himself. Joseph Tripp, 33, repeatedly tried to derail his trial at the Old Bailey where the courts cost £150 a minute to run. His latest ruse was to claim that he could not be brought to court because he had messed his underpants and had nothing to change into. Detective Sergeant Bryan Field…