A defence barrister who tried to stop a news agency publishing a photograph of her client was thwarted by the intervention of a judge who told her “I confess that I think you are in grave difficulties.

Reporter Olly Hemans, covering the case of an RE teacher accused of sexual activity with a child, successfully challenged the defence application to have the defendant’s picture barred.

Patricia May, representing defendant Gary Munday, was not happy that INS News Agency photographer Maros Herc had photographed him leaving Aylesbury Crown Court.