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Originally Posted by Bagpuss
This is going to do my head in when I do my bit in May, I am an active person who can't stand hanging around doing nothing. I can see myself getting so frustrated that I will be off and get fined £1000 or whatever it is.
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I hope that you don't have an experience like mine, Bagpuss. If money was no object I'd have willingly handed over £1000 by now just to get out of there. When all this is over I hope I never have to set foot in that building ever again.
Yet another wasted day today. We arrived at 10.30am. There were quite a few people milling about today, barristers, police, ordinary people who were probably friends and relatives of the people involved in the trial.
We were quite hopeful that something was finally about to happen.
We sat in the jury room chatting and doing crosswords all morning, lunch time came at 1pm and nothing at all had happened.
We were told to go for lunch and come back at 2.15pm. At 2.45pm the usher came in and would you believe it? The defendant had just pleaded guilty to his charge, there would be no trial and we were free to go home.
No trials start on a Friday so we have been told to return for our second week of jury service on Monday at 10.30am. The usher apologised to us for a week's worth of our time being wasted. I would hate to have his job, none of this is his fault but I bet he gets so much abuse and anger directed at him out of sheer frustration.
When we had our first wasted day on Monday I never dreamt that we would get to the end of the week and still be in the same position, incarcerated in that jury room every day, never setting foot in a court room.
I hope to God that next week is not a repeat of this week. If so, I fear for my sanity.