I had to do Jury service in June
One of the trials was a 21-year-old man who was up for GBH, he had allegedly hospitalised a 61-year-old taxi driver in an unprovoked drunken attack (see the road-rage relevance…).

Now to cut a long story short I thought the little scrote had obviously done it, but the unemployed housewives in my jury thought he "looks like such a nice young man" and that they couldn’t possibly send him to jail because "he could be my son".

At the first deliberation vote it was 7-5 in the defendants favour, the little bastard was going to get off because the old dears on the jury wanted to mother the little shit despite the fact he had blatantly punched the elderly taxi driver to the ground, kicked him repeatedly in the back & hospitalised him for 5 days.

It took me FIVE HOURS to convince those 'tards that he was guilty, I bullet-pointed on flip-charts the reasons & evidence that pointed to his guilt, we went over the damning evidence again and again and AGAIN. I even led on the ground & let another juror pretend kick me in the back (a little too hard for my liking) just to ram the point home.

Five hours, and it still wasn’t unanimous. The final vote was 10-2 guilty because two of them "just couldn’t send that boy to prison". As we had taken so long there wasn’t time for the judge to sentence him but I phoned up a few weeks later and he got 2 years in prison.

N.A. of Shepton-Mallet prison, I doubt you will ever know that you were a gnats chuff from getting away with it. I hope you're getting rammed.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 13 Oct 2006, 15:12, Reply)