It does not allow the jury to consider charges less serious than murder. The jury retires. She collapses in tears. Her friends and supporters, watching television in a pub in Elton, receive the verdict with howls and screams. Protesters demonstrate outside the court.
Supporters launch appeal for funds.
He says he will post his decision on the Internet. Miss Woodward issues a statement through her lawyers denying she and her family have accepted any offers to sell the rights to her story to the media. The Justice moved to speed up the appeals process and ruled that the prosecution and defence appeals could be presented to the entire seven-member Supreme Judicial Court in March, bypassing the lower Appeals Court. Instead, some of the estimated 200,000 raised by her supporters is to be used to fund the appeal. Miss Woodward had not entered the court.