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Originally Posted by Damien
Couldn't he have simply guessed? It seems quite likely. After all I think we all presumed they would be found guilty...
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He could have done but the problem is that when he tweeted he predicted exactly that 7 had been found guilty ,and under investigation it was revealed that at the time of the tweet it reflected the current thinking of the jury at the time they reached those decisions in the jury room .So although it is possible that he guessed it right at the time it is unlikely .Griffin recanted later and said he had heard about the verdicts on Facebook
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As the jury was making their deliberations under conditions of strict secrecy, BNP leader Nick Griffin tweeted that seven of the defendants had been found guilty.
Urgent inquiries established that he was correct about the jurors’ current thinking, leading defence barristers to allege that one of their number must have been in communication with the extremists.
Mr Griffin later suggested he had heard about the verdicts on Facebook – apparently on the page of far-Right splinter group, Infidels of Great Britain.
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