article_snippet.sent: Shorter's pregnant wife Joanne, who is expecting Judge Noel Lucas child in six weeks, and other members of Judge Noel Lucas family watched from the public gallery as the charges against Judge Noel Lucas were read out.
article_snippet.sent: Judge Noel Lucas was told Judge Noel Lucas has also been paying to see a psychologist, in a bid to help Judge Noel Lucas to fight depression.
article_snippet.sent: Judge Noel Lucas said: 'I am of course sympathetic to the defendant's wife and the situation but your client must be under no illusion that the sentence I pass is likely to be nothing less than an immediate custodial sentence.'