London - The Lord Archer perjury trial jury was sent home last night after failing to reach verdicts at the Old Bailey following a second full day of deliberations.
The five-woman, six-man jury panel has been considering its verdicts in the seven-week case since lunchtime last Friday.
Lord Archer (61) denies two counts of perjury and three of perverting the course of justice in relation to his 1987 libel action against the Daily Star, in which he was awarded £500,000 after the newspaper claimed he slept with a prostitute.
His co-defendant, Mr Ted Francis (67), a retired television producer, denies one charge of perverting the course of justice by providing a false alibi.
Lord Archer, a millionaire novelist and former Tory party deputy chairman, who has homes in London and Cambridgeshire, declined to give evidence during the trial.