Preston - The jury in the Harold Shipman murder trial was sent home again last night after spending a second day of deliberations without returning a verdict. The seven men and five women have now spent nearly 111/2 hours at Preston Crown Court discussing the evidence.
Dr Shipman (54), of Roe Cross Green, Mottram, near Hyde, Greater Manchester, pleads not guilty to murdering 15 women patients between March 1995 and July 1998 and forging the £386,000 will of one of them. The trial judge, Mr Justice Forbes, told the jury before they retired again that it was "absolutely fundamentally important that you should not be under any pressure of time".
