She’s a wide-eyed and cautious trainee, as one might expect in someone suddenly thrust from a domestic cocoon into potentially dangerous territory.

“He told me she was consenting,” he responded, staring wide-eyed at the judges, referring to Mr. Pelicot.

Attention is showered on wide-eyed new members flooding the halls while those departing are rather ungraciously shunted aside in their final days.

“It seemed like it digged the piece,” Aitken said, as wide-eyed and sincere as he is when talking about all of his work.

When he first appeared at Newry Magistrate’s Court in July 2019 he was just 21, with long, fuzzy hair and the wide-eyed look of someone surprised to be sitting where he was.