Burden of isolation: Juror with PTSD urges triple-murder jury to get help
CALGARY — Mark Farrant has a good idea of what jurors are going through after they sat through a recent triple-murder trial’s disturbing testimony about how the victims were killed and disposed of.
Farrant, who is from Toronto, spent five months at the 2014 trial of Farshad Badakhshan, who was ultimately convicted of murdering his 23-year-old girlfriend, Carina Petrache.
Farrant was later diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and has become an outspoken advocate for the need to provide counselling for jurors hearing horrific cases.
“One of the burdens of being a juror is the isolation you have,” Farrant said in an interview with The Canadian Press.