Marc Dutroux, chief defendant in a horrific child rape and murder trial that has transfixed Belgium for over three months, rejected the most serious charges against him today in a final courtroom appeal before a jury decides his fate.

THE Nazi leaders were put on public trial in Nuremberg in 1946. Eichmann, CEO of the Holocaust, was put on public trial in Israel in 1961.

David Brent’s hilarious assessment of one of his employees in BBC2’s The Office was last night named the funniest scene on TV in 2002.