It ' s Byzantium , you can only have it by force . <| sep |> Inb 4 Chris saying We are fixing this . <| sep |> sure and had he walked free , that would be front page news . His sentence is front page news regardless , as demonstrated by all the . wait for it . front pages . yes , articles about an ongoing issue is more current than a 6 month old murder . Ok . Lets go through it again . Today is Thursday . The day before today was a Wednesday . On Wednesday , yesterday , the day before today , the verdict was found and the sentence given . The news is regarding the trial and sentencing , not the murder itself . They are two separate things . The day Jo Cox was murdered , the actual day , is regarded as the date of the murder . The day that the murderer was sentenced , which was yesterday , is what the news is about . If there is an appropriate adult nearby they may be able to help you with this . Ask them to explain it to you using a calendar . That way there will be a really easy visual point of reference to help you and may make it slightly clearer . the results of which will shape the world for the next 4 years . Because as we all know case law has no impact on the legal system of our own country , which affects us all directly , nor does the assassinations of our own democratically elected political representatives and the infiltration of our political system by populist right wing movements spurred on by national propagandists like the Daily Mail . Yep none of this affects us directly . The American presidential election though , two weeks ago , yep that ' s a lot closer to home . yes , because there are 30 pages of more worth while stories to cover . . for someone like you . Tragic .