VERDICT WATCH UK - Nurse Lucy Letby, Faces 22 Charges - 7 Murder/15 Attempted Murder of Babies #29

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1681961622019923972

 

[Cinister09]

Where did you hear it?

https://twitter.com/MrDanDonoghue
Dan O'Donoghue
@MrDanDonoghue

The jury in the trial of murder accused nurse Lucy Letby will not be sitting again at Manchester Crown Court today - the trial judge indicates we will be back on Monday


10:37 AM · Jul 20, 2023
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[CS2C]

Letby will be retired by the time we get a verdict

 

[Sarahlou]

Frustrating but hopefully they will actually return on Monday.

 

[JosieJo]

A whole week missed must be beyond frustrating for the families

 

[Parker Knoll]

What on earth is going on ?

 

[musicaljoke]

I even think all verdicts are ready, and only paperwork has left to be done.
And final touches

JMO

I'm not so convinced. They have a lot of charges to wade through to establish whether the evidence points to a guilty finding. Plus, they all have to agree. Is it even possible to get through more than a couple each day? If these were singular murder charges, a half day of deliberations would seem very fast.

 

[Dotta]

I'm not so convinced. They have a lot of charges to wade through to establish whether the evidence points to a guilty finding. Plus, they all have to agree. Is it even possible to get through more than a couple each day? If these were singular murder charges, a half day of deliberations would seem very fast.

They have BEEN there for 9 months and listened to ALL evidence.

 

[Eloise]

If anyone's wondering about length of time in UK jury deliberations, majority vs unanimous verdicts, and minimum numbers of jurors required, I found this page by a UK defence barrister.

 

[Tortoise]

I retract my earlier statement that I have patience. It's expired.

Sequester them.

 

[Lucy6226]

What on earth is going on there? Has there been some legal mishap and withdrawal of evidence or something? Seems weird that they have wrote off the rest of the week with no explanation.
Families must be so frustrated!

 

[CS2C]

I retract my earlier statement that I have patience. It's expired.

Sequester them.

It really is becoming beyond a joke

 

[Parker Knoll]

The thing is they hammer home the need for transparency in our courts but yet here we are again. If it was jury illness then surely they would of said that as they have before.
To me now with the reporting restrictions there has to be an “issue” with the jury that is not illness. I can’t see anything else.
JMO

 

[Dotta]

Sequester them

Has it ever happened?

I guess most of the Jury are retired frail folks with health issues.

Because,
would full time workers even agree to sit in such a long trial?
It was supposed to last for 6 months.

JMO

 

[CS2C]

The thing is they hammer home the need for transparency in our courts but yet here we are again. If it was jury illness then surely they would of said that as they have before.
To me now with the reporting restrictions there has to be an “issue” with the jury that is not illness. I can’t see anything else.
JMO

I think this reminds me of those 9 hour drives I did to Manchester when on 3 out of 4 occasions a jury member was ill. Myers even back then was hammering home the affect the delays were having on his clients mental well-being, I wonder what he is saying to the judge now.

 

[Parker Knoll]

It’s a mess. This case has been weird from day 1.

 

[Tortoise]

Some of them must be employed because the judge said he would write to their employers when the trial was extended.

 

[iamshadow21]

As long as it takes, to do it thoroughly, do it right. Delays happen. Life happens.

I can wait for their verdict.

MOO

 

[Sunbeams]

Just wondering if something has maybe happened in regards to one of them jeopardising the case? Perhaps one of them admitted to searching things online or seeing something online that wasn’t presented at the trial. And maybe they have to work through how to continue now that everyone has heard these things.

Not sure as I don’t know much about how that would work.

 

[Dotta]

Dbm