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| Jurors jailed for contempt of court over internet use | |
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| Two jurors have each been jailed for two months for contempt of court after one posted Facebook comments and the other researched the case on the web. | |
| Kasim Davey, 21, from London, posted an abusive Facebook message during the trial of a man accused of sex offences. | |
| The High Court also heard that Joseph Beard, 29, had told jurors in a fraud trial what he had learned about the case online. | |
| There have been two previous similar prosecutions by the attorney general. | |
| Dominic Grieve brought the cases over "conduct likely to interfere with the administration of justice". | |
| Davey, from Palmers Green, north London, said he had sent the Facebook message last December as a result of "spontaneous surprise at the kind of case I was on". | |
| The judge at Wood Green Crown Court was alerted and Davey was discharged. The defendant, Adam Kephalas, was eventually found guilty of sexual activity with a child. | |
| The High Court heard claims by Beard that he had only wanted to find out how long the proceedings would take as he was worried they would drag on. |