Brazen drug dealers on trial for a stabbing were caught passing cannabis to each other in the dock in front of a shocked judge.

Khalid Latif, 18, and Kuany Eljack, 23, slashed their victims with knives over a £15 debt at their north London home in January last year.

And appearing in the dock at Blackfriars Crown Court, Latif passed cannabis to Eljack as the jury was being sworn in.

The pair then struggled with a dock officer as the bemused judge looked on and Latif was later fined £100 for possession of cannabis on top of his string of other charges.

Judge Michael Simon said: "I suspect that my face may have displayed some disquiet. It seems to me to be utterly inappropriate."