Flickr/ Ronnie Macdonald. Some rights reserved.Jurors should "weigh" the public interest in having a free and diverse press when considering whether to brand journalist Jamie Pyatt "a criminal," his lawyer told the Sun trial today.
Making his closing speech at the Old Bailey, Richard Kovalevsky, QC, said the Crown had deliberately avoided defining the public interest when setting out the case against the Sun reporter for paying a police officer for information.
Yet the public interest was the vital test that jurors would have to consider when deciding whether Mr Pyatt's behaviour was "so awful" it reached the high thresh-hold of criminality, Mr Kovalevsky told Court 13.
