BoldonLad
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Looks as if we will have to wait for. a re-trial, if we are interested that is.
Giggs trial collapse
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Rusty Nails
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I wasn't interested until I saw we had a thread about it; now I'm agog and I'm not even from North Wales.
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BoldonLad
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Customary it may be, but, I don't know how to link to BBC TV 6 o'clock news, I suppose I could take a photograph of the screen, but, that wouldn't provide the audio.
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BoldonLad
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What's North Wales got to do with it? All I know is he is, or was, a footballer, and seems to know a lot of women.
Rusty Nails
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It's a Welsh joke, sorry.
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BoldonLad
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No need to be sorry, even the Welsh deserve to have jokes, particularly in these times of crisis
Fab Foodie
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I haven't got a Welsh....
Rusty Nails
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Fab Foodie
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It's just like an English but with cockles and laverbread.
Aha! Thanks for clearing that up. Now Giggs...isn't that some kind of wooden vessel full of seamen?
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Ian H
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Bromptonaut
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After 20+ hours of discussion the jury, reduced to 11 by ill-health, could not agree a verdict by majority on any of the several charges faced by Ryan Giggs.
The CPS have to decide whether to go for a retrial which would probably not take place before June of next year. They're going to be damned either way. On the one hand a high profile figure charged with offences against women will be seen as having 'got away with it'. On the other a lot of time and public money will be expended with a high probability a second jury will also fail to agree.
Giggs will be bearing all or most of the costs of his defence and even a multi-millionaire will find that dents his savings hard. IIRC Dave Lee-Travis was ruined in similar circumstances.
The CPS have to decide whether to go for a retrial which would probably not take place before June of next year. They're going to be damned either way. On the one hand a high profile figure charged with offences against women will be seen as having 'got away with it'. On the other a lot of time and public money will be expended with a high probability a second jury will also fail to agree.
Giggs will be bearing all or most of the costs of his defence and even a multi-millionaire will find that dents his savings hard. IIRC Dave Lee-Travis was ruined in similar circumstances.
PaulB
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Giggs' career in football is over either way...unless there is a trial next year and he is acquitted and exonerated. Nah, he's Donald Ducked.
Bromptonaut
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Yes. Jury deliberations stay in the jury room. The foreman said they could not agree a verdict now or 'after extra time'. They're discharged and that is that.
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