They say justice is blind. And in Byker Grove, Duncan once famously announced that “PJ’s gone blind!” And so with that, admittedly tenuous, link we assume Geordies would be naturals at being impartial, with one of their most famous sons (Ant McPartlin) having experienced the pain of being sight-deprived, just like Lady Justice as she balances the scales of the law with a blindfold on. Kinky bitch.
But while they may be impartial in other things, when it comes to football, those north-easterners are about as unbiased as a bunch of teen girls being asked “who is the greatest musician of all time: Beethoven or Justin Beiber?”
That point was rammed home last month when a Toon fan who had been called up for jury duty was removed from a rape trial after admitting to his fellow jurors that he couldn’t give the defendant a fair trial because he was a Sunderland fan, and the pain of the previous week’s 3-0 defeat to the Black Cats was too much to overcome.
He was urged to tell the judge about his feelings and when he called the defendant a “Mackem rapist” he was duly removed from proceedings.
A spokeswoman for the judiciary said: “I can confirm that the judge did discharge a juror. Because the trial was at a very early stage the judge then discharged the remaining 11 jurors and a new jury was empanelled. The juror had himself approached a member of court staff and made the comment which in the judge’s view made him unsuitable to try the defendant.”
Despite the kerfuffle, the defendant was found guilty and is expected to be given a prison sentence. Dirty Mackem rapist.
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