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The Jury: Murder Trial review - It's scary to think such ignorance could exist on real murder juries, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS


CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: The Jury: Murder Trial (Ch4) is a blend of reconstruction, reality show and social experiment.

The crime is a shocking one: 39-year-old sculptor John took a lump hammer and smashed in the skull of his wife, Helen, hitting her three times with such ferocity that scraps of flesh were left on the implement. 'That plays a big part in how I judge people,' he admitted, failing to grasp that he was meant to be weighing the facts, not deciding how much sympathy he felt for the killer. The British Airways Killer (ITV1) sets out the brutal facts of how jumbo jet pilot Robert Brown battered Joanne Simpson to death at her home in 2010 before burying her body in a pre-dug grave in Windsor Great Park.

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