A juror has been dismissed after posting a case on Facebook and asking her friends to vote on the verdict she should deliver.
The unnamed woman was told to step down from the sexual assault and child abduction case at Burnley Crown Court. The court had been tipped off that she had asked her friends to decide the defendants' guilt or innocence. She said "I don't know which way to go, so I'm holding a poll". Several of her friends came back with guilty verdicts.
A spokesman for the Court Service confirmed that the juror had been dismissed on 18th November for discussing the case.