Originally when this story first broke it looked like Tommy had been stitched up since he was reporting on a trial that had in all essence finished, they were supposedly turning up for sentencing which would mean there is no possibility of corrupting a trial. However the latest news now is that the trial had been split into 3 separate trials with some witnesses crossing over between the trials and that Tommy was active at the end of trial 1 with trial 2 still in action and trial 3 yet to start. Is that true? Since it wasn't made at all clear before and seems to have just come out at this latest verdict. If it is true then it makes it a bit more of a grey area in respect of contempt of court and the effect he would have had on the rest of the trial. Mind you he said nothing in my opinion that would have affected the other trial he only spoke to those coming in for sentencing and never referenced anything related to the trial, seems they have got him on a technicality, with them treating the whole trial as still active.
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He was locked up at the end of trial 2, after the Jury had finished deliberating but before the verdict was returned.
The specific problem that Tommy and others have identified is that these cases are very often covered with wide reporting restrictions that are probably wider than the courts have the authority to impose. Imposing reporting restrictions means that whatever press attention these massive trials get is limited to a single story at the end, rather than ongoing reports of some of the details laid out in court. Those detailed accounts never make the public record and can cost a fortune for the public to ever see (thousands of pounds to get transcripts after a public case).
All accusations that anything Tommy said could have affected trial 2 or 3 were dismissed almost immediately after he was jailed. These allegations were conclusively accepted to be nonsense in the appeal that freed him and evident from the fact that no charge like this was put forward now.