Lewes - The jury in the Billie-Jo Jenkins murder trial was sent home for the night yesterday after failing to reach a verdict. The eight men and four women had spent more than five hours deliberating at Lewes Crown Court after the judge finished his summing up of the 19-day trial.
Mr Sion Jenkins (40), a deputy headmaster, denies murdering 13-year-old Billie-Jo with a metal tent spike as she painted the patio doors of the family home in Hastings, East Sussex, on February 15th last year.