Former chief crown prosecutor Nazir Afzal on why Channel 4’s social experiment is so groundbreaking and its similarities with BBC hit The Traitors. <\/p>
Channel 4\u2019s social experiment The Jury: Murder Trial<\/a> began last night, with the aim to make viewers question how trustworthy our jury system is.<\/p>\n The trial may have been a reconstruction of a real case, but it still offered a fascinating case study of the UK\u2019s legal system and the usually kept-secret deliberation process of not one but two juries.<\/p>\n Ahead of its opener, former chief crown prosecutor Nazir Afzal spoke on The One Show of why the series is so groundbreaking, and why it\u2019s \u201cvery much more Traitors<\/a> roundtable than it is 12 Angry Men\u201d.<\/p>\n The BBC\u2019s hit reality programme certainly offered some interesting insights into the human psyche \u2013 and how good we are at determining whether someone is lying.<\/p>\n “It gives you an insight you wouldn’t have otherwise.”