The jury in the York garden rape trial has been discharged.
Part-way through the prosecution case, Judge Gavin Barr Young told the 12 men and women the trial at York Crown Court would have to stop for legal reasons.
It is expected to restart on January 8.
Philip James Nicholas, 19, no fixed address, denies raping a woman in a front garden in Tang Hall.
Updated: 10:38 Thursday, November 22, 2001
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