This is why juries can be a massive obstacle to justice. There is no objective assessment of the facts and the law, its about pandering to the emotions and prejudices of ordinary, tabloid-reading imbeciles...
There is no dispute that the law was broken, they admitted to doing it. But they voted ‘not guilty’ in a blatant act of jury nullification that completely disregarded the law...
Then the Judge should have overuled it. The judiciary is supposed to be independent - he should have told them straight that their “defence” is inadmissable - its no defence at all.