Two jurors jailed for contempt of court after man messaged he was ‘deciding a paedophile's fate’ and another Googled victims
Two jurors have today been jailed for two months for contempt of court: one for sending a Facebook message about the jury he was sitting on, while the other used Google to look up the case he was sitting in on.
Kasim Davey, 21, from north London, had sent a Facebook message saying: "Woooow I wasn't expecting to be in a jury deciding a paedophile's fate, I've always wanted to f**k up a paedophile & now I'm within the law!"
He said that this was a result of ‘spontaneous surprise’ following the case he was on.
Joseph Beard, 29 was accused of searching Google for extra information about the victims of fraud in the case he was sitting on, and then passing his discoveries on to the rest of the jury.