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Jury retires in Operation Granite drugs trial
On the 23rd day of the Operation Granite drugs conspiracy trial, the jury has retired to consider its verdicts on 25 charges against five accused.
The 11 jury members headed for the jury room from Christchurch?s main High Court carrying lever-arch folders of documents and spreadsheets from the weeks of evidence of police surveillance and telephone intercepts.
After a delay for legal argument, Justice Christian Whata gave his summing up to the jury yesterday and reassembled the court today to put the jury out to consider the verdicts at 10.35am.
The Crown has alleged that the five men on trial included the central figure in a conspiracy over a six week period in 2010, supplying methamphetamine in Christchurch, as well as men who were ?cooks? making the drug, a broker supplying the necessary pseudo-ephedrine for the drug production, and a man described as the financier who loaned money.
The trial began on August 15. The Crown finished its evidence last week, and this was followed by evidence from one defence witness.
The Crown then gave its closing address on Wednesday, and the five defence closing addresses were heard on Thursday and Friday.
