How to be on the jury for The Murder Trial Live in Cornwall

Now is your chance to find out, as The Murder Trial Live comes to Cornwall on August 16 to 18 this year.

Following on from Channel 4’s Murder Trial broadcast this week, the original The Murder Trial Live – the theatrical, interactive ‘trial’ as featured on Dragon’s Den – is back on tour, offering a realistic insight into the British legal system.

Over the course of four to five hours, you can join a fictional jury in person to determine the outcome of a mock criminal trial.

Written and delivered by real criminal barristers, the trial you will participate in is based on a true story, but with details changed. 

You will meet the defendant Jack Brewer, who the prosecution believes brutally murdered more than 20 people, even consuming part of his victims’ flesh.

A vast array of forensic and post-mortem evidence suggests that Brewer carefully plotted, abducted and murdered his victims in cold blood. He now stands trial for the killings and you can be on the jury.

The Murder Trial Live first toured the UK in 2018 offering the first ever social experiment where the UK jury system was put on trial.

The Murder Trial Live is coming to Cornwall (Image: Murder Trial Live)

The former production company stopped trading in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions. After processing more than £200,000 in refunds, Showtour Ticketing now operates the live event and has invested more than £500,000 in the upcoming show tour.

The Murder Trial Live is on tour in an innovative inflatable courtroom arena, which also includes street food vendors and a prosecco and gin bar.

The exact venue in Cornwall is still to be confirmed, but there will be an evening performance between 6pm and 11pm on all three dates, with additional matinee performances between 12 noon and 4pm on both weekend days.  

Places on the jury can be booked over on the website www.themurdertriallive.org.uk

More about the case on trial

Jack Brewer has been charged with the murder of Julia Moores, Robert Harwin and Lee Barnes. Extensive police work and forensics suggests Brewer could have murdered up to 23 people over a period spanning decade -their identities unknown.

Julia Moores was last seen on December 31, 2022 at a New Year’s Eve party in Clapham. She was seen on CCTV walking north along Clapham High Street towards the tube station at 10.55pm - after which she was never seen again.

There is no digital footprint of her beyond the purchase of four bottles of wine on New Year’s Eve at 6.54pm, and an Instagram post at 8.44pm.

On the evening of January 20, 2023 police excavated remains at an allotment in North London following reports of a body.

Police immediately traced the owner of the plot to a Jack Brewer in Finchley.

Police raided Jack Brewers home address in Finchley, North London on January 20, 2023. Upon access, nothing could brace them for what they were about to discover...

Inside the flat were human remains found in squalor conditions belonging to at least 21 other people, their identities at present unknown. Forensics confirm at least three bodies have been subject to cannibalistic activity.

Extensive forensic work and post mortem has confirmed the remains of two others to be Robert Harwin (reported missing July 2018) and Lee Barnes (reported missing December 2021).

You will be asked to consider the evidence set out before you and try the case on the facts alone.

Hear the examination and cross examination produced by real barristers before hearing from the defendant himself, finally retire to consider your position before delivering your jury verdict.

Tickets access you to the Court Room Arena, where you will find a fully licensed bar, street food vendors, your set on the jury of 12, the live immersive show, evidence bundles to examine, your juror card and verdict sheet.

Described as being “as close to Jury Service as you can get” - innocent or guilty? You decide...