'School sex romps' man is acquitted; TRIAL.Byline: MATT BLAKE A CLASSROOM assistant accused of sex romps with a 15-year-old girl pupil was acquitted yesterday as the jury ended in deadlock See deadly embrace. (parallel, programming) deadlock - A situation where two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something. . Christopher Reen, 31, was charged with six counts of sexual activity. The newlywed - whose wife was pregnant - claimed he never knew the girl was underage until she told him about her 16th birthday party Reen, who had admitted one count of sexual activity with a child under 18, met the girl while covering for a teacher now on trial for inappropriate behaviour with a pupil at Headlands School, in Bridlington, East Yorks. The jury at Hull crown court reached stalemate stale·mate n. 1. A situation in which further action is blocked; a deadlock. 2. A drawing position in chess in which the king, although not in check, can move only into check and no other piece can move. tr.v. after five hours. Prosecutors have a week to decide on a retrial retrial n. a new trial granted upon the motion of the losing party, based on obvious error, bias or newly-discovered evidence. (See: newly-discovered evidence) . |
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