Jurors 'risk trauma from gruesome evidence' as mock trial reveals nearly half met threshold for PTSD symptoms Jurors who hear disturbing evidence could need counselling, according to academics.
Jurors who hear disturbing evidence may need counselling, a study has shown, after nearly half of participants in a mock trial showed symptoms of PTSD (file photo).
They carried out a mock trial based on a real case and found that nearly half of jurors met the threshold for symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Before the study led by Manchester Metropolitan University, 11 per cent of the mock jurors had shown PTSD symptoms.
The study involved 180 people acting as jurors in a fictitious murder trial who filled in a survey outlining their stress symptoms.
