A jury due to try property magnate Nicholas Hoogstraten on a murder charge will be bussed to court each day, possibly with a police officer on board.

The trial at the OId Bailey is expected to start on Tuesday.

After six men and six women were sworn in yesterday, Mr Justice Newman told them they would be picked up at an agreed location and brought to the Central Criminal Court in London.

He said: "The advantage is everyone arrives at the building together.

"It also has the added advantage that if any of you is delayed we have advance notice."

The judge warned jurors not to talk about the case.

He said conversation should either be limited to the World Cup or some other more interesting event.

Nicholas Hoogstraten and two other men, Robert Knapp and David Croke, have denied the murder of 62-year-old retired businessman Mohammed Sabir Raja, who was shot at his home in Sutton, Surrey, on July 2, 1999.

Hoogstraten, 57, of Framfield, near Heathfield, has also denied conspiring with Croke, 59, of Bolney Road, East Moulsecoomb, Brighton, and Knapp, 55, of Abbeyfeale, Co Limerick, and others to murder Mr Raja between January 1 and July 3, 1999.