Rape victim weeps as jury finds man guilty

A jury took 85 minutes yesterday to record a unanimous guilty verdict in the case of a 51-year-old man who raped a 12-year-old girl at a funfair almost 25 years ago.

The victim, who is now in her 30s, wept as the verdict was delivered by the four women and eight men of the jury.

What the jury had not been told was that this was a retrial of a case where another jury was discharged after finding they could not agree any verdict after several hours of deliberation in February last year.