A jury has been told to consider the defences of duress and reasonable excuse in the trial of a mother of one charged with impeding her boyfriend’s apprehension by staging the suicide of the woman he’d strangled. A jury has been told to consider the defences of duress and reasonable excuse in the trial of a mother of one charged with impeding her boyfriend’s apprehension by staging the suicide of the woman he’d strangled. Jury told to consider duress and reasonable excuse in trial of woman charged with staging house-mate's suicideThe judge was giving his charge to the Central Criminal Court jury today on the sixth day of the mushroom picker’s trial. “What we are saying is there’s no reasonable excuse for what she did,” he said. That is the prosecution case.” He asked the jury to consider both duress and reasonable excuse as defences for his client.

Source: Irish Independent February 13, 2018 19:41 UTC