New ‘Metric Martyr’ puts faith in trial by jury

A woman who is being prosecuted for selling vegetables by the pound branded the case against her “disgusting” yesterday as she made her first appearance in court.

Janet Devers, Britain’s latest “metric martyr”, vowed to continue trading at the stall set up by her mother at the height of the Blitz in 1940.

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