BOTH prosecution and defence teams have concluded presenting their cases to the jury in the trial of Ethan Stables.

In a shock twist towards the end of the evidence, the judge, Peter Collier, told the jury he was allowing Stables to change his plea from guilty to not guilty in the offence of possessing explosives under suspicious circumstances.

In his testimony, the 20-year-old has described how he had to match head composition, which can be used to make an Improvised Explosive Device, for use in making a campfire.

On Friday the judge will first give a series of directions to the jury.

These allow him to sum up the evidence and point out the issues the jury must determine in order to reach a verdict.

These will likely include the detail of what must be proved in order to provide a conviction of preparing acts of terrorism and making threats to kill.

Then the prosecution and defence barristers, Jonathan Sandiford and Patrick Upward, will make their closing statements.

The prosecution will attempt to explain to the jury how the defendant is guilty while the defence will argue the case has not been proven.

The jury will likely be sent out to consider their verdict towards the end of the morning.

The jury will be told when they first retire that they must reach a unanimous verdict.

Since 1974 juries have been allowed, in certain circumstances, to reach a majority verdict. This is a verdict of 11-1 or 10-2.

The minimum period of time that the jury have to have been thinking about their verdict before a jury can return a majority verdict is two hours 10 minutes.

The general rule is that the longer and more complicated the case, the longer the judge will give the jury before giving a majority direction.