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11/12/01 - SARAH JURORS TOLD: BE
BRAVE
By IAN HEPBURN and MARTIN WALLACE
The Sun
JURORS in the Sarah Payne murder trial yesterday retired
to consider their verdict after the judge told them:
"Deciding a case like this requires courage."
Mr Justice Curtis said in his summing up of the evidence
against mechanic Roy Whiting: "You have probably
never come across a case like this in your life. I unfortunately
have." He urged the nine men and three women not
to "shrink" from their task and to stay "calm
and dispassionate" in deliberations.
Mechanic Whiting, 42, denies the kidnap and murder of
eight-year-old Sarah who vanished as she played near
her grandparents' home in Kingston Gorse, West Sussex.
Her naked body was found 16 days later in a shallow
grave.
The judge said it was "vital" for the jury
of nine men and three women to decide for themselves
WHY she was killed. He said: "Is it a necessary
and proper deduction of all the pieces of evidence that
she was murdered for an abnormal sexual reason or to
cover up a sexual offence?"
He added: "Apply above all your common sense to
the evidence before you." Last night the jury were
sent to a hotel.
They will continue considering their verdict today at
Lewes Crown Court. |
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