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The defendant, from Port Talbot, south Wales, looked up to the public gallery and was given a thumbs up by one of his supporters following the verdict.

Ovsiannikov's wife, who was in the public gallery on Friday for the sentencing, was cleared of four counts of circumventing sanctions by assisting with payments totalling £76,000 to her husband in February 2023.

In front of a packed court room, with headteachers and students in school uniforms listening from the public gallery, Lord David Pannick KC, argued the policy is discriminatory.

Sian sat in the public gallery every day during the murder trial last December at Winchester Crown Court.

Gasps were heard from the public gallery as the verdicts were given, and the court was cleared as the defendant appeared unwell.