Britney Spears court case ends in mistrial

At the height of her long public breakdown, Britney Spears’s life was unanimously agreed to be a car crash, but yesterday a jury was unable to decide whether the pop singer was guilty of driving without a licence when she had a real life prang.

The jury at Los Angeles Superior Court spent eight hours deliberating over whether the 26-year-old had a valid licence when she hit a parked car in August 2007 and left the scene without notifying the owner. The foreman then told the court that they were deadlocked and Judge James Steele declared a mistrial.