Jury discharged in trial of two males accused of murdering ‘loving son’

Paul Rosser and Joshua Cullen deny murdering Joshua Norman

The jury making an attempt two males for the homicide of a “loving son, father, brother, and uncle” has been discharged. Joshua Norman died after struggling a wound to the throat on a Swansea avenue in September final yr. He was 27.

Paul Rosser and his nephew Joshua Cullen are accused of the homicide of Mr Norman and another lesser cost of manslaughter. The pair deny the costs.

The defendants have been on trial at Swansea Crown Court docket for the final two weeks however on Monday (June 9) the jury was discharged for authorized causes.

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Choose Geraint Walters informed the jury the decide’s job was to make sure justice is completed to all events, and he stated it was necessary that not solely is justice performed however that it’s seen to be performed.

He thanked the members of the jury for his or her persistence and their service on the case including: “I’m wholly glad that the fitting plan of action is to discharge you from reaching verdicts on this case.”

Emergency providers rushed to Cwm Street within the Hafod space of Swansea at lunchtime on September 11, 2024, the place they discovered a gravely injured Mr Norman.

Regardless of the most effective efforts of paramedics and others, he couldn’t be saved.

Following Mr Norman’s loss of life his household launched a tribute saying: “Joshua was a loving son, father, brother, and uncle who cared deeply about all his household.

“He was a good looking individual whose smile and sense of humour would gentle up any room and any coronary heart.

“We are going to miss him terribly and ask for privateness at the moment to grieve the lack of our pricey son.”

Paul David Rosser, aged 49, of McRitchie Place, Gendros, Swansea, and 32-year-old Joshua Lee Cullen, of Griffith John Avenue, Dyfatty, Swansea, deny homicide and manslaughter.