The.Jury.Murder.Trial.S01E01.The.Crime Subtitles

00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,This programme contains strong
language and discussions of murder

00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:06,Can you tell me how Helen is,
please?

00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:09,All I can say is that
she is in a serious condition.

00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,I never wanted anything bad
to happen to her.

00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:18,There's some stuff I don't entirely
understand about

00:00:18,080 --> 00:00:20,how this did happen today. But I'll
explain as much as I possibly can.

00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:23,I didn't plan for any of this
to happen, quite the opposite.

00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:35,Can we trust our justice system?

00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:42,To find out, we're re-enacting
an entire real murder trial...

00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,You chose to use this hammer. Yes.

00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:48,..word for word, with actors.

00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:52,To aim the shots
and basically bash her brains in.

00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:55,She's still shouting, and I go to
put my hand over her mouth,

00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:56,but I don't know, I don't know why,

00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:58,I put my hands
round her throat instead.

00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:02,But just as in a real court,
the jurors are ordinary people.

00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:04,God, I just feel so sorry for her.

00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,I believe that there are two sides
to every story.

00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:09,I don't care what she said.

00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:12,And in this ground-breaking
experiment,

00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:13,there is a key difference.

00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:18,There isn't just one jury.
There's two.

00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:21,Both unaware of each other.

00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:23,I wanted to give him a hug.
Is it crocodile tears or not?

00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:25,I don't want to do this any more!

00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:30,They'll watch the same trial,

00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:33,but will they reach
the same verdict?

00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:38,Do you find the defendant guilty
or not guilty of murder?

00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:02,A real-life murder trial is about
to be restaged in full by actors,

00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,in front of two different juries.

00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:08,This experiment is so important.

00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:10,I've never seen what goes on behind

00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:12,closed doors in a jury, no-one has.

00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:18,The jury system is the corner stone
of our justice system.

00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:19,But I think we need to have

00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:22,a conversation about whether or not

00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:23,the jury is fit

00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:24,for the 21st century.

00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,12 random people are kind of
thrown together

00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:40,and you're reliant on those people to make the right decision.

00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:45,I think I'm quite logical
rather than emotional.

00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,One would like to think that
a juror would bring common sense

00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:52,but not everybody
has g***t common sense, so.

00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:57,We are completely different,
men and women, in emotions.

00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,We're made up differently,
let's say.

00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:05,The restaged trial will take place

00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:08,in this former courthouse
in Chelmsford.

00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:12,The Ministry of Justice
found that 70% of jurors

00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:14,could not remember key points of law

00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:16,that they had been instructed on.

00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:19,That's problematic.

00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:25,If we didn't have punishment,

00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:29,we would live
in a very different world.

00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,When you do something wrong,

00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,there has to be a price paid.

00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,It is mad cos you could be sending
an innocent person to prison.

00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:41,You have to be really, really sure

00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:43,cos that is someone's life
in your hands.

00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,Hi. Hi, you all right?
I'm fine, thank you.

00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,I'm Emily, nice to meet you.
I'm Kelly, nice to meet you, Emily.

00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:00,The jurors are local to the area.

00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:04,Hello. How are you?
Hello, darling, all right? Hi.

00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:07,And in an extraordinary experiment
in justice...

00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:10,Richard, yeah. Nice to meet you.

00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:13,..they are randomly split
into two different juries.

00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:15,Morning, all.
One is the Red Jury.

00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:17,What's your name? Gary.
Emily, nice to meet you.

00:04:17,840 --> 00:04:21,Hello, Emily. Don't expect me to
remember all your names, though.

00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:24,And on the other side
of the building -

00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:25,the Blue Jury.

00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,So, have you g***t children?
I do, I have a daughter.

00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:31,Aw! Yeah.

00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:34,Neither jury knows
the other exists,

00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:36,to stop them
influencing each other.

00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:41,I always think that in
any case, how do you ever

00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,100% know what happened?
Yeah. No-one says,

00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:47,"Yeah, you g***t that right,
well done." No, no, exactly.

00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:50,Will these two
different juries

00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,ultimately see this case
the same way?

00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:05,To remain hidden from each other...

00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:07,Is it all the way down?

00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:09,..each jury has their own staircase.

00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,And entrance to the courtroom.

00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:18,They will observe the trial

00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:20,from specially designed
soundproof boxes...

00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:23,You g***t enough room? Yeah.

00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:27,..entirely unaware of who
is on the other side of the divide.

00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:30,Who's that man there? Someone there.

00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:36,Right, good morning, everybody.

00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:40,The jurors will sit, over six days,

00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:43,through the original trial
word for word.

00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:49,Before we start,
can you all look towards the dock?

00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:52,You will find the defendant,

00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:55,who's called Mr John Reisdale,

00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:59,and he is the man whose case
you will be trying.

00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:05,Only names, dates and locations have
been changed, to anonymise the case.

00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:10,The defendant stands charged
on this indictment with murder.

00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:14,To this indictment
he has pleaded not guilty,

00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:16,and it is your duty,
having heard the evidence,

00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,to decide whether
he is guilty or not.

00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:23,OK. I'll pass it over to you.

00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:25,May it please Your Honour,

00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:28,Mr Reisdale is charged with

00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:31,the murder of his wife, Helen.

00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,As with the real case, the jury
are given bundles of evidence

00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:40,including photos and reports.

00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,I'm going to ask you
to have a look at those now.

00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:47,Photograph 007 is significant,
ladies and gentlemen,

00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:51,because that shows the state
of the room in general.

00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,That's blood, I think, is it? Yeah.

00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,There's, like,
things all over the place,

00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:00,so they must have been having
a proper fight. Bloody hell.

00:07:00,280 --> 00:07:03,So, on Monday the 11th of July
of last year,

00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,in the dining room of the house
they shared together,

00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:13,the defendant attempted to strangle
his wife of just two months,

00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:17,and thereafter repeatedly struck
her in the face/head area

00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:22,three times
with an industrial-sized hammer.

00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:26,I'll ask the usher if they can

00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,kindly hand it around
to the jury now.

00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,That's heavy.

00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:35,It weighs about 1.4kg.

00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:44,A hammer that caused catastrophic
and fatal head injuries

00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:48,resulting in her death some two days
later whilst...