Juror ‘tampered with drugs trial’

A juror tampered with a boxing promoter’s drugs trial by disclosing ‘votes cast’ during deliberations, a court heard. Damien Drackley, 35, was one of the jurors who were considering the fate of Leslie Allen, 64, on charges of wholesale supply of cocaine and cannabis. When allegations of jury nobbling came to light Judge Andrew Lockhart QC exercised a rare power to dismiss them from further deliberating under section 46 of the Criminal Justice Act, 2003. He discharged the jury on…