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JUROR WHO FAILED TO TURN UP FOR TRIAL IS FINED £1,000 BY JUDGE It’s every citizens duty, Bootle woman, 30, is told
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Oil’s well for nursery nurse turned mechanic A NURSERY nurse who decided she wanted to switch careers to become a motorcycle mechanic, says the job is not just for men! Deborah Moore, who was a nursery nurse for 21 years, was ‘extremely nervous’ at the prospect of being the only female in her class when she enrolled on a motor cycle mechanics course at Hugh Baird College, Continued inside
A BOOTLE woman who failed to turn up for jury service has been fined £1,000 by a top judge who is warning others not to make the same mistake. Kimberley Kelly, 30, of Randall Drive, was given the maximum fine for contempt and now faces 14 days in prison in default if she does not pay. The punishment was made by The Recorder of Liverpool, Judge Andrew Menary, QC, in Kelly’s absence, as she also failed to turn up for the contempt proceedings. Judge Menary spoke out last month about the ‘serious issue’ of jury duty while fining a pensioner who had refused to attend the city’s crown court to serve as a juror. Kelly had initially turned up on the first day of her jury service, on July 8 this year, but by the time
Report by Tom Martin she was called to sit on a trial she had vanished. When a jury officer rang her the same day she claimed “she had felt anxious and had gone home at lunchtime without telling anyone else”, said Judge Menary. She was told a medical note would be needed but when the jury officer rang her back a few hours later Kelly said she would not be able to provide such a note. “She went on to give a clear indication that in fact she was not suffering from any medical condition at all but rather was unable to complete jury
service because she had three children,” said the judge. The court official told her she would be reimbursed for child care and she was required to attend court the next day but she did not turn up at all during the rest of her two week service or answer her phone. Judge Menary said a letter was sent instructing her to attend court to explain her actions but she had not turned up and he consequently ruled she was in contempt of court and imposed the fine along with £100 statutory surcharge. He pointed out that jurors failing to perform court duty is a national problem and he had to treat her failure to attend as “a serious contempt of court”.
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