Trial by sudoku

Sydney: As jurors sat day after day in a courtroom listening to testimony from 105 witnesses in a major drugs trial, it seemed as if some were taking their duties very seriously indeed. They were spotted assiduously taking notes, prompting the judge to compliment them on their diligence. But when one defendant saw they were writing vertically, not horizontally, the secret came out — they had been playing sudoku.

On Tuesday, the million-dollar trial at Sydney district court was abandoned after the head juror admitted she and four or five others had been playing the numbers puzzle for almost the entire period of the hearing.For Details