Jurors who Googled ‘murder’ escape jail

Two ‘confused’ jurors researched the difference between murder and manslaughter at home during an Old Bailey trial have been spared jail. Accountant Dharamjeet Digpal, 34, searched details of the case online and the difference between the two terms after a judge had warned the jury not to. Richard Wellings, 42, researched the word ‘manslaughter’ over the same weekend after the jury had failed to return a unanimous verdict. They were members of a panel who later convicted Lewis Simpson, 18,…

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