The cost of the abandoned first trial was estimated to have been more than £1.4 million to the public purse. The other two were acquitted by the jury.ĭue to the misconduct of the four jurors - Denning, Fletcher, Doughty, and Lowe - a retrial was needed.

This disclosure caused the discharge of the jury part way through deliberations, on 10 March 2020, with verdicts still outstanding on four of the defendants. It was reported some had been undertaking their own research on aspects of the case and had in some cases had shared the information with other jurors.

The jury retired to consider verdicts, regarding six of the defendants, on 12 February 2020 - but it was during retirement that concerns about certain jury members’ conduct came to light. The trial related to two incidents, one on October 2, 2018, when multiple shots were fired through the window of a house in Upper Langwith, and another on November 3, 2018, when a young woman was hit in the arm when a gunman riding a moped fired five shots toward the Das Kino bar in Fletcher Gate, Nottingham city centre.Įight people were charged with a number of offences connected to both incidents – resulting in a long-running trial held at Nottingham Crown Court at the end of 2019 and into the start of 2020. Tina Denning, Ann-Marie Fletcher, Sharon Doughty and Jamie Lowe were sworn in as jury members for the trial involving eight defendants on Octoat Nottingham Crown Court, and the case was due to start at the end of that year. They searched on their mobile phones while sitting in a trial for conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to possess firearms, forcing a retrial for four defendants, the Crown Prosecution Service said. Four jurors caused a major shooting trial to collapse at a cost of £1.4 million to the taxpayer after researching the defendants online.

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