Archer jury resumes deliberations
The Lord Archer perjury trial jury was today resuming its deliberations at the Old Bailey.
The five-woman, six-man jury panel has been considering its verdicts in the seven-week case since Friday lunchtime.
Archer, 61, denies two counts of perjury and three counts of perverting the course of justice in relation to his 1987 libel action against the Daily Star, in which he was awarded £500,000 after the newspaper claimed he slept with a prostitute.
His co-defendant, retired television producer Ted Francis, 67, of Cranleigh, Surrey, denies one charge of perverting the course of justice by providing a false alibi.
Archer, a millionaire novelist and former Tory party deputy chairman, who has homes in London and Cambridgeshire, declined to give evidence during the trial.
