Oliver stabbed David Oliver, his 74-year-old grandfather, to death in Mottingham, South London, on January 19, 2021. He confessed to manslaughter for diminished responsibility and was acquitted of murder by jurors at the Old Bailey.
Oliver attacked his grandfather, who lay “helpless” in his bedroom after a stroke. Louis Mably QC, on behalf of the prosecution, said: “He had been stabbed and stabbed repeatedly in the face, and in particular in the neck. It was a brutal attack, clearly carried out with intent to kill him.”
It follows the successful television broadcasts of the Supreme Court, which gets 20,000 views each month on its live stream, and the Court of Appeals, as well as a pilot in eight Crown Courts.
The contract has now been definitively extended to the Crown Court. Sky, BBC, ITN and Press Association can apply for comments on film and broadcast, with the judge deciding whether to grant the request.
First conditional hearings could be heard in public
Thursday’s hearing comes as it emerged that a murderer of a woman convicted despite her body never being found could be the first in legal history to publicly hear his parole request.
Russell Causley, life sentence for murdering the mother of his child Carole Packman, is due to appear before probation in October to request release from prison.
The board announced on Wednesday that it is considering an application for the hearing in public new rules introduced by Mr. Raab.
It means victims, the public and the press can attend the hearing where the three-member board determines whether Causley no longer poses a risk to the public and can be released.
Causley, now in his late 70s, was one of the first people in the UK to be convicted of murder without a body in 1996. This conviction was overturned in 2003, until a new trial the following year found him guilty again.
He was given a life sentence for the murder of Mrs Packman after she disappeared in 1985 – a year after he involved his lover in their Bournemouth home.
Only one other application is being considered by Charles Bronson, one of the UK’s longest serving and most notorious inmates, who formally asked to publicly hear his next Parole Board hearing.
A hearing on parole is expected to be streamed live to a separate building for family, press and the public to watch. Some parts can still be kept private if it involves sensitive personal details of the crime or perpetrator.