Autobiography

Judge Bernard Gilis. He was no better than
Judge King-Hamilton. Indeed, we were warned
before the trial that he was even worse.
Was he deliberately chosen? It’s amazing that
of all the judges who could have presided over
these two trials, we had the two who were
most emphatically against sexual freedom. It’s
as if the prosecution had selected the two
judges most likely to earn them a conviction.
Once again we were found not guilty on all
counts, and this time the judge, begrudgingly,
awarded us £6000; nowhere near enough to
cover our legal costs, totalling nearly £75,000
for the three trials, and of course we hadn’t
received a penny from the first two cases.
Moreover, I had spent another ten days of my
life bound by the court, having to ask for bail
every day and spending the breaks in the cells.
When the jury were out considering their
verdict I played chess with the warder for over
an hour.
I was locked up with the worst kind of
criminals, murderers and rapists. On the first
day of the final trial at the Old Bailey my
lawyers asked if it was appropriate for me to
be kept in the cells, and it was agreed I should
be freed for lunch. But what was the danger of
David Gold going out for lunch in the first
place? When I was down below in the cells, I
was invited to sit with the warders for lunch,
and they were always very polite. My cell was
kept open as I waited for the call to return to
court. One day a senior officer came along and,
seeing that my cell was unlocked, went into a
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