A JURY considering the verdict in the retrial of a man accused of murdering a 15-year-old has been told it can now make a majority decision.
The jury has spent more than 12 hours deciding whether Michael-Paul Hamblett-Sewell is guilty of the murder of Kadeem Blackwood. At 2.30pm the judge in the case called the jury back into court and told them that she would now accept a verdict on which at least 10 of them were agreed.
Kadeem died after he was shot by Callum Campbell, then 18, in Caxton Park, Sunny Hill, in November 2008. Campbell has already pleaded guilty to murder.
Hamblett-Sewell, now 25, who is accused of being a party to, being behind or ordering the shooting, denies murder.
The prosecution case is that Hamblett-Sewell, of Marlborough Road, Derby, said something to Campbell, who then pulled the trigger.
Hamblett-Sewell told the jury he had told Campbell to put down the gun.
