The jury in Britain's first war crimes trial arrived in Poland last night, ahead of an historic court sitting in a foreign land.
Final preparations for the visit, to the town of Domachevo in neighbouring Belarus, were under way earlier yesterday as a plane carrying the eight men and four women of the jury arrived in the Polish capital, Warsaw.
The panel is trying retired British Rail ticket collector, Mr Anthony Sawoniuk (76), from south-east London. The bespectacled, grey-haired pensioner denies four charges under the 1991 War Crimes Act of murdering two men and two women in 1942 in the Domachevo region. Mr Sawoniuk allegedly led "search and kill" police squads which hunted down Jews.