Anne Robinson is making her TV comeback in a new documentary, You Be the Judge: Crime & Punishment.
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Airing on Channel 5 tonight (6th May), the one-off programme will leave viewers wondering if British sentencing is too lenient in a new social experiment.
A similar experiment aired on Channel 4 last year, with a real-life murder trial restaged for two separate juries of ordinary people, in a bid to see if they could both reach the same verdict.
But this time, the power is in the hands of the viewers. So, what exactly is You Be the Judge: Crime and Punishment? Read on to learn more about the documentary.
What is You Be the Judge: Crime & Punishment?
Keith Richards as Judge. 5
You Be the Judge is a feature-length film exploring the British public's view of sentencing in the UK.
In what has been described as a challenging social experiment, viewers are given the chance to compare their judgements about convicted criminals against real judges through the reconstruction of four actual sentencing hearings.
Viewers will get to decide what sentence they think a convicted criminal offender should get, before it is revealed what sentence was given.
Their judgements will then be compared against four groups who will be judging along with them, comprised of retired judges, former inmates, retired police officers and relatives of crime victims.
The documentary aims to examine "the aggravating and mitigating factors judges take into account to determine a sentence".
Katelyn Mensah is the Senior Entertainment Writer for Radio Times, covering all major entertainment programmes, reality TV shows and the latest hard-hitting documentaries. She previously worked at The Tab, with a focus on reality TV and showbiz news and has obtained a BA (Hons) in Journalism.
