An usher and a clerk tried to ban a reporter from entering a crown court on the grounds that the judge had imposed a reporting restriction which meant that she was not allowed to attend the hearing.

The two official sought to keep Jeanette Oldham out of a hearing at Worcester Crown Court on Tuesday January 22, the second day of a case involving cancer surgeon Sudip Sarkar.

Trial judge Robert Juckes QC had imposed an order under section 4 (2) of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 postponing reporting of the case until it was finished.