A jury presiding over a trial concerning the alleged rape of a teenager in a Belfast park is discharged after failing to reach a verdict.
A jury presiding over a trial concerning the alleged rape of a teenager in a Belfast park has been discharged after failing to reach a verdict.
During the trial, the jury heard the complainant, who has autism, and two friends spent a day drinking on 13 June 2020, and that evening were "very inebriated". When she did not get the last bus home, her mother phoned her and arranged to pick her up on the Ormeau Road. He accepted that he knew she had been drinking but described her as "quite tipsy", but not completely drunk.They failed to reach a verdict after almost eight hours of deliberations, and were then brought back into court by Judge Paul Ramsey on Monday afternoon.
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