Prison because of chat conversations

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3641586/Facebook-juror-is-jailed-for-8-months.html

Summary
Joanne Frail a mum of three children has to spend eight months in jail because she contacted Jamie Stewart, a defendant. Joanne served as a juror at a drug trial concerning 6 million pounds. At the time Joanne contacted Jamie, she had been aquitted but the other defendants were still on trial. Jamie told her solliciter about the chat conversations she had had with Joanne and Joanne was being sent to prison.
　
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Well I do not think it is a very smart thing to do, contacting a defendant when you are a juror on a trial. And I do not really understand what the purpose of this was other than to show sympathy. From what I read in the article she did not take it very serious anyway since she says that she had been doodling on her notepad to kill time. I also think it is very low of Jamie to participate in these messages and say to Joanne that she deleted them all and then turn her in anyway.