Juror in court over school stabbing trial collapse

A juror accused of causing the illness of a proceedings into a triple schoolhouse stabbing has appeared successful court.

Last month, a teenage miss was sentenced to 15 years for the attempted execution of 2 teachers and a pupil astatine Ysgol Dyffryn Aman, Carmarthenshire, pursuing a retrial.

Christopher Elias, 45, of Waunceirch, Neath Port Talbot, has been charged with refusing to reply a question relating to the qualification to service connected a jury.

He appeared astatine Swansea Magistrates' Court connected Wednesday and helium was released connected unconditional bail up of his adjacent proceeding connected 2 June astatine Cardiff Magistrates' Court.

Teachers Fiona Elias, Liz Hopkin and a pupil, who cannot beryllium named due to the fact that of their age, were stabbed by the girl, who was 13 astatine the time, during interruption clip astatine the schoolhouse successful April 2024.

The archetypal attempted execution proceedings collapsed successful October due to the fact that of what the justice described arsenic a "great irregularity successful the jury".

The complaint connected Mr Elias comes nether the Juries Act 1974, which sets retired requirements arsenic to who is eligible for assemblage work successful Wales and England, and permits tribunal officers to enactment questions to imaginable jurors to found whether oregon not they are qualified to signifier portion of a jury.