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11:53Jonathan Humphries
The panel of five men and seven women take their seats.
The judge tells them: “Thank you for your note. There is a fairly straightforward explanation.”
Mr Greaney reads their question aloud.
It concerns a document on the attribution of mobile phones in the case, which is present in only three of the jury bundles.
It concerns a device recovered from Lucy Worley’s Mercedes at the Formby Hall Hotel, when she and Barry were arrested.
Mr Greaney says: “All relevant material has been extracted and is in your jury bundle.”
These included the photos taken in Norwich and Portugal seen by the jury and voice notes exchanged Barry and Zeisz also recovered from device.
Mr Greaney continues: “At one stage it was thought there may be an issue whether Niall Barry may have been the relevant user of that phone. A document was prepared which addressed the prosecution’s case. Before the trial started it became apparent that issue didn’t exist. He accepted being the user of the phone.”
The prosecutor says “steps were taken to remove the document” from the jury bundles, but it was “missed” in three bundles.
PG: “Can I assure you that nthing of relevance has been kept from you. The reason only three of you had the document is through oversight. We’re going to suggest that we should remove from your jury bundle the documents you had and hand them over to the court staff.”
Justice Goose adds: “Well spotted. You have keen eyes.”
Jurors retire once more to consider their verdicts.
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'Keen eyes'
The court is reassembled and Justice Goose asks for the jury.The panel of five men and seven women take their seats.
The judge tells them: “Thank you for your note. There is a fairly straightforward explanation.”
Mr Greaney reads their question aloud.
It concerns a document on the attribution of mobile phones in the case, which is present in only three of the jury bundles.
It concerns a device recovered from Lucy Worley’s Mercedes at the Formby Hall Hotel, when she and Barry were arrested.
Mr Greaney says: “All relevant material has been extracted and is in your jury bundle.”
These included the photos taken in Norwich and Portugal seen by the jury and voice notes exchanged Barry and Zeisz also recovered from device.
Mr Greaney continues: “At one stage it was thought there may be an issue whether Niall Barry may have been the relevant user of that phone. A document was prepared which addressed the prosecution’s case. Before the trial started it became apparent that issue didn’t exist. He accepted being the user of the phone.”
The prosecutor says “steps were taken to remove the document” from the jury bundles, but it was “missed” in three bundles.
PG: “Can I assure you that nthing of relevance has been kept from you. The reason only three of you had the document is through oversight. We’re going to suggest that we should remove from your jury bundle the documents you had and hand them over to the court staff.”
Justice Goose adds: “Well spotted. You have keen eyes.”
Jurors retire once more to consider their verdicts.
Ashley Dale murder trial as it happens
The 28-year-old was shot dead at her home on Leinster Road in Old Swan
