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Barrister falls down a manhole on jury visit

Tuesday 28 April 2009 at 9:54 am | In News | Post Comment JURY visits to crime scenes during murder trials can be expected to be dramatic. But they don’t come much more dramatic than one undertaken by a Chelmsford Crown Court jury last Friday.

During the jury visit to the site in Harlow where a 24-year-old woman was killed and her boyfriend left brain damaged by a suspicious fire, barrister James Howard fell down a nine-feet deep manhole breaking bones in his hand.

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