The 1st day I did it, there was a nonce case, some guy on his own kids. Every single juror, about 100 of us, was taken into the court and it took about half an hour to find 12 people who didn't have some excuse as to why they weren't able to do 6 weeks of jury service. My name wasn't called, I'd have loved 6 weeks of free pie and chips.
my 4 outings as follows old bailey --police had caught a big fat black guy with a blooded baseball bat in his trunk of his car ,not far away a woman had been burgled and raped ,after 2 weeks the trial was suspended due to lack of evidence am I ****ing missing something here???? baseball bat in car with blodd on so wasted 2 half ****ing weeks Southwark crown court-Railway boss fiddled £30K OUT OF THE FIRM HE WAS WORKING FOR AND GUESS WHAT BANG ON THE LAST DAY CASE THROWN OUT NO ****ING EVIDENCE AGAIN AGHHHHHHHH called up again 2 years later southwark crown court cant remember the case but again case thrown out so far the cps have wasted one month of my ****ing life attending these ****ing trials for what exactly???? last one called up again to southwark crown court-Indian gang fight in Shoreditch and whitechappel area this was the most boring trial to date fecking lawyer sitting opposite me describing in detail how a ****ing plastic bag was made at Tesco and what was in his shopping ffs sake!!!!! u can obviously tell this prat of a lawyer was dragging on the case so he gets a hefty bill at the end!!!! so **** em last day we got called into the private room do the summering up I said the whitnesses didn't know what day of the week was etc etc so get this ****ing lawyer back we all decided to free the man in custody,anyway the bottom line of it this prat of a lawyer at the end after the judge freed him was shaking his head in disbelief that should teach any boring lawyer to get on with the ****ing case instead of ****ing around glad I got that of my chest!!!!
Southwark Crown Court is an absolute joke. The trial I was on had been attended by the crims family and friends (let us say they were all of a particular ethnic background) and at the end after me and the others got him sent down we had to exit the court through the public entrance surrounded by hostiles. I was expecting a twatting the whole way home.
Did it once in Glasgow and got a week off work for it. Got called in to the court room for them to read out the names of jurors selected, and ended up getting picked. Turned out to be an armed robbery. So i was siting there, absolutely buzzing, hoping it was going to be an ethnic of some shape or form so we could dole out some proper justice, preferably in the showers. Turned out to be a case against a ned for trying to rob a Hamilton Accie in his corner shop with a knife. **** didn't get any money, so stole some bottles of Irn Bru and then did a runner **** pleaded guilty, and then I got sent home. All in all it was a mixed experience.
