This is an extract from our crime and court newsletter written by Tom Seaward.

I’ve seen defendants being sick in court.

I myself have felt quite green-gilled in a courtroom. But I’d never seen a juror being sick in court until this week.

Part way through the trial of Alan Thompson at Oxford Crown Court on Monday, a grey-faced member of the jury quickly apologised, stood up, then ran for the door leading to the jury room.

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Oxford Mail:

Play resumed around 20 minutes to half an hour later when an exam hall-style desk had been erected for the sick juror some metre-and-a-half to two metres from his colleagues.

Fair play to him, though, he stuck it out.

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