A JUROR who posted details of a trial on Facebook could be investigated by the Attorney General, it has emerged.

The woman, sitting in a child sex assault trial at Burnley Crown Court, was thrown off the jury by Judge Heather Lloyd last week after it was found she was posting details of the case on her profile on the social networking site.

The woman asked her friends on Facebook to vote whether the defendants were guilty of attacking the Darwen girls.

Now she could be the subject of an inquiry by the office of the Attorney General, the Government’s chief law officer, after a request from trial judge Heather Lloyd and HM Court Service.

Officials will look at the case and decide whether to launch a full investigation into the woman.

A spokeswoman from the Attorney General office said: “We have been written to by the court service because the Attorney General has the power to see whether contempt of court has been committed and to order an investigation.”

She said a decision was likely to be made next week.

After the woman was dismissed from the case, the trial continued with 11 jurors.

Farooq Ahmed, 27, and Hardeep Singh, 32, both from Leicester, and Portuguese national Nelson Caldeiro-Claudino, 26, were found not guilty of child abduction.

Ahmed and Caldeiro-Claudino were also cleared of sexual activity with a girl of 14.

Caldeiro-Claudino, who was cleared of a serious sex assault, earlier admitted to having sex with a 12-year-old girl and will be sentenced next month.