UPDATE: Jury sent home after failing to reach verdict in lorry driver trial over death of Highland nursery teacher
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The jury has confirmed it needs more time to reach a verdict following the conclusion of evidence.
John O'Donnell of Crossover Road, Inverurie, has denied driving dangerously and failing to observe the stabilising outriggers of his low loader lorry were insecure, causing the death of 26-year-old Inverness nursery teacher Chloe Morrison.
She had been walking along a pavement on the A82 at Kerrowdown, near Drumnadrochit with her mother.
Advocate depute David Dickson asked the jury on the sixth day of the trial to convict the HGV driver of causing death by dangerous driving.
Defence counsel Tony Graham QC argued that it was not obvious to his client that his lorry was in a dangerous state because he had not been trained to look for the yellow warning signs attached to the crane or what they meant.
