The Belfast jury deciding the fate of a mother of three accused of luring her husband to his death at the hands of her lover can't reach a unanimous verdict in her case.
The foreman of the Crown Court jury following ten hours of deliberation over two and a half days told Mr Justice McLaughlin it was "impossible" for them all to agree in the case of Ms Lesley Gault.
The jury of ten men and two women, who yesterday unanimously convicted her former "lover boy fireman" Gordon Graham, have been sent home for the day to enable one of them to honour a medical appointment.
Mr Justice McLaughlin, who told the jury he would "direct" them on a possible majority verdict tomorrow said he considered it to be in the interests of justice that they break off their deliberations until then.
The 35-year-old mother of three denies she and her lover "hatched a terrible scheme" to murder her husband Paul in their Audley Avenue home in Lisburn in May 2000, just three weeks after he had uncovered their two and a half year illicit affair.
Ms Gault, who was freed on continuing bail until tomorrow maintained that she had "absolutely nothing" to do with the brutal murder of her 34-year-old husband whom Graham, who is already jailed and facing a life sentence, bludgeoned to death with a hockey stick.