The jury in the Lord Archer perjury trial was sent home tonight after failing to reach verdicts. The jurors will resume deliberations at the Old Bailey at 10 a.m tomorrow.
Archer (61) denies two counts of perjury and three counts of perverting the course of justice in relation to his 1987 libel action against the Daily Star, in which he was awarded £500,000 after the newspaper claimed he slept with a prostitute.
His co-defendant, retired television producer Ted Francis (67) of Cranleigh, Surrey, denies one charge of perverting the course of justice by providing a false alibi.
Lord Archer, the millionaire novelist and former Tory party deputy chairman who lives in London and Cambridge, declined to give evidence during the six-week trial.
Lady Archer sat at the back of the courtroom with the couple's eldest son William (29) to see the jury go out again.
Mr Justice Potts sent the five-woman, six-man jury panel out to deliberate their decision on Friday.
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