Users Decide With Interactive Courtrooms

People can become virtual magistrates at the online version of the Wrexham Evening Leader.

The newspaper has launched an innovative feature which enables users to hear criminal cases and decide the sentences of the accused.

Participants are given the facts of the case by real-life lawyers acting for the defence and the prosecution and can then make their judgment based on the evidence.

The current courtroom scenario involves a case of domestic violence and the website states that further scenarios will be added in future months.

Your Justice is the result of collaboration between the Evening Leader and Wrexham’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

The newspaper’s digital editor, Christian Dunn, told holdthefrontpage.co.uk: “This kind of working partnership shows great common sense by the CPS; they can use our website’s traffic to get their message across and we can use their content to add more value to our site.”