I got an ABH case. Two women in a hostel, the older one pushed the younger one down the stairs and held a knife to her throat, having been kept awake all night by shagging noises coming from that one's room. Guilty yer honour, but one juror was concerned that if we found the accused guilty she might go to prison; for holding a knife to a young girl's throat. After pushing her down a flight of stairs.
Done it twice. First time was a drug case, we let the Itchy off because the prosecution didn't even call the alleged recipient of the smack as a witness. the Po'leece did a very poor job so we went for not guilty. The foreman was a white guy but as soon as we'd gone for Not Guilty a Bag o' Spoons on the jury said he wanted to stand up and give the verdict, sticking it to the man and all that. After the verdict the Itchy started to go off on one about how he had been vindicated, it was a fit up blah blah and the Judge pretty much told him to shut the f*ck up and get out. Nice. Second time was a bit busier; Carrying an offensive weapon (ammonia in a squeezy bottle) - guilty Not paying the right tax on importing tyres from Africa - most dull, not guilty Perjury - following on from a massive crack/guns/ho's case some patsy who had been laundering drug money got done. You are not allowed to know about their previous unless they declare it so he's there all suited and booted, said he only faked the drug lords accounts because his family had been threatened but couldn't provide anything to back it up. Total scumbag and we ended up 11-1 with some silly Hippy type saying she felt sorry for him because he was only trying to protect his family. Guilty your Honour. They then read out all his previous, drugs, extortion, etc done a load of porridge too, you should have seen the look on the Hippy's face! I'd do it again like a shot.
It actually sounds ****ing good. They called my Ma a year or 2 ago and she sat about for 2 weeks at the court, covered her wages paid for her lunches travel etc then didn't use her. Sounds sweet but she hated it.
I'd think it would be pretty sweet if you landed a right good murder rape case; otherwise, nah, not so good.
One of my mates was on jury service, it was an awful case. A family were at the seaside and the husband and wife were having a proper shouting match in front of everyone on the beach, including their own kids, then it all got violent. The guy started battering his wife and someone called the cops. When a copper turned up the man managed to get his truncheon off him and started hitting his wife with it, then he turned on the copper and started hitting him with the truncheon, then a crocodile ran away with the sausages.
