A juror sitting in the case of a man accused of killing his partner who was strangled to death has been discharged due to illness.
The jury had been considering its verdict in the case of Adam Barnard who is accused of murdering Tara Kershaw whose body was found at an address in Princes Street, Great Yarmouth, on January 20 this year.
Judge Alice Robinson sent jurors out to consider verdicts in the case at on Monday after summing up evidence in the trial which started last month.
But jurors at Norwich Crown Court were sent home for the day on Wednesday after it emerged one of them had been taken ill.
Addressing the remaining jury members, she said: "It's unfortunate but we're now discharging that juror and inviting you to continue your deliberations with 11 of you".
The remaining seven women and four men on the jury, which was sent out to continue deliberations just before 10.15am, have been urged to try and reach unanimous verdicts in if they can.
The trial at Norwich Crown Court had heard the pathologist identified a number of recent injuries to Miss Kershaw, including bruising to her neck and jaw area with three different ages of fractures.
Stephen Spence, prosecuting said "in many respects Tara foretold how she might die and at whose hands.”
However, Barnard has claimed he killed her accidentally after suffering an epileptic seizure while he was restraining her after she tried to attack him with a lamp.
Barnard, of Princes Road, Yarmouth, has denied murder and manslaughter.
The trial continues.
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