THE jury in a long-running trial of a North Yorkshire solicitor on theft charges was sent home for the night yesterday after members were unable to reach a verdict.
Jeremy Cave, 53, coroner for the western district of North Yorkshire and a solicitor in Thirsk for 20 years, has been on trial since November 18 at Teesside Crown Court, denying ten charges of stealing more than £185,000 from dead clients' estates.
Yesterday, Judge Leslie Spittle completed summing up the evidence to the jury of 11 men and a woman, and they retired for five-and-a-half hours.
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