The jury deciding the fate of an OAP dog breeder accused of blasting his ex-partner and her daughter to death has been sent home until Monday.
Puppy farmer John Lowe, aged 82 years, is accused of shooting dead 66-year-old Christine Lee and her daughter Lucy Lee, aged 40 years, at his farmhouse in Feburary.
The judge swore the six men and six women in at 10.30am and they returned to their jury room to pore over the details of the two week double murder trial.
But they were later sent home not having made a decision, and the trial is not sitting Thursday or Friday.
Elderly Lowe had to be woken up on Tuesday after dozing off in the dock while High Court judge Mr Justice Singh summarised the pensioner's own defence.
The jury at Guildford Crown Court has heard closing arguments from both legal teams and a summary of the trial's key evidence, including the final two phonecalls made by Lucy minutes before she was gunned down.
Just over a minute after ending a call to her boyfriend Matthew Richardson, Lucy placed a "frightened and frantic" 999 call to police saying that Lowe had killed her mother and she was "running for her life."
She was shot twice after telling the the operator: "I'm going to go back for him but I'll die."
Armed police later surrounded Lowe's farm but found the mother and daughter both dead alongside four dogs at "scenes of carnage" at Lowe's stud farm in Tilford, near Farnham, Surrey, on February 23.
Lowe made no apology at the scene, saying "they've been giving me s*** for weeks."
He later said the women needed to be "put down," but defence barrister Ian Lawrie said the farmer was in a "terrible state" after accidentally firing his gun and wasn't aware of what he was saying.
Police had previously seized licensed shotguns from the farmer but returned them ahead of his shooting spree, it emerged earlier this year.
The police watchdog is probing why officers seized firearms from Lowe last May and then handed them back to him just two months later.
Mark Dennis, prosecuting the pensioner, said a "belligerent" Lowe had resorted to "ludicrous" claims to avoid taking the blame for the shootings after losing his temper with the women who he viewed as both his carers and captors.
Lowe denies two counts of murder and one of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life.
The hearing continues.
