And so Ian Huntley, who for years has stalked the young and vulnerable, and who for six wretched weeks, for 16 months, has stalked our imaginations, is walked from the dock, face expressionless, and vanishes from public view.
"The loading dock faces my front door.
If this is so, why isn't he in the dock facing criminal charges?
At 2 a.m., Mama Ayo and the others paddled across the Escravos River to a dock facing ChevronTexaco's terminal.
For a quiet, law-abiding man such as Thoburn, it was hard enough to find himself in the dock facing a criminal charge.
Within several months of the toppling of [President Hosni] Mubarak in Egypt, he was in the dock facing criminal charges and prosecution.
Mubarak, his two sons Gamal and Alaa, his former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, and six senior police officers are all in the dock, facing a range of charges.
That even a few Iraqis, including those who suffered from his cruelty, feel humiliated by seeing Saddam Hussein in the dock, facing an Iraqi judge, does not bode well.
Within days, Sallam found herself in the dock facing baseless and trumped-up charges of "displaying force" and vandalism, in addition to participating in an unauthorised protest.
When she floated above the audience in her high, high heels on that lighted dock, facing a stadium of sixty-eight thousand people, how could she feel anything except either a messiah complex or profound loneliness?
For the next six decades the building's site, rather than its style, was a continued burr under the city's saddle, especially the way its busy loading dock faced City Hall.
