Jessie Wright verdict expected

Published: 8th April, 2011
by DAVID ST GEORGE

JURORS at the Old Bailey will retire today (Friday) to decide the fate of the man alleged to have murdered teenage schoolgirl Jessie Wright. 

Zakk Sacket’s three-week trial is coming to an end without him being present in the dock. 

“That is his choice entirely,” explained Judge Timothy Pontius yesterday when he revealed that the 20-year-old, described as a “thicko” during his case, wanted to remain in the cells below court. 

Before the judge began his summing up of the evidence a woman juror who had been unwell was discharged from the panel and the trial continues with 11 members.

Jessie, 16, who attended Maria Fidelis Convent school in Somers Town, was found dead in an enclosed yard in Outram Place, York Way, behind King’s Cross Station, on March 4 last year. She had allegedly been thrown over a 15ft-high wall either alive or dead.

Unemployed Sacket, 20, lived just yards away at a flat with his grandmother.

He claims he had consensual sex with Jessie on the night she died – she came from Kinross House, on the Bemerton estate, Caledonian Road, and was known as “Miss Caley”. Jessie, who lived with her grandmother, died after the pair were “mucking about” in the early hours.