A terror trial saw the drama go from the dock to the jury box after a juror complained their foreperson had thrown the rest of them “under the bus”.

Two days into the Supreme Court trial of Ihsas Khan, accused of trying to stab a man to death in Minto, the jury was already so dysfunctional that it had to be discharged.

CCTV released by the court of the alleged attack.

The juror’s gripes were laid bare in a letter published in a decision by Justice Geoffrey Bellew to start the trial afresh, in which she described the foreperson as a “game player” who was “overstepping her role to the detriment of the jury panel”.

“It is my recollection, that the job of the foreperson, is to pass notes to the judge on our behalf – not, for example, announce to the jury panel 20 minutes before sitting that ‘OK, there's 20 minutes to go. If anyone needs to go to the bathroom, they had better do it now’,” the juror wrote.