AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after the family of a man jailed for murdering his wife took out a newspaper advert to trace the jurors involved in his trial.

The advert asks for the jury in the trial of Ian Workman to take part in a “documentary”.

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Workman was jailed for at least 17-and-a-half years after being found guilty of murdering 55-year-old wife Sue at their remote farmhouse in Plantation Road, Edgworth, in 2011.

The advert offers £1,000 for the jurors to give their opinions on new evidence.

His son Grant has told the Lancashire Telegraph’s sister paper The Bolton News they are responsible for the advert.

He says the plan is to create a film of the jurors discussing fresh evidence about the case and publish it on YouTube.

Lancashire police are looking at the advert, which appeared in a newspaper to decide whether an offence was committed.

Grant Workman said the family had taken legal advice and were confident they were doing nothing wrong.

He said: “We have had quite a few people contact us but have not set up an interview yet.

“We are not approaching jurors, we are inviting them to talk to us.

“We have checked and checked and we are not breaking any laws. We have put the advert out as we want to know whether new evidence would have affected the outcome.”

The jury in Workman’s trial agreed with the prosecution that he killed his wife, stabbing her while she was typing up an account of the couple’s rows.

He then stabbed himself in the stomach in a bid to disguise his crime and told police his ex-wife had attacked him.

An attempt to overturn the conviction in the Court of Appeal failed in March last year.

Grant Workman added: “We are coping by defending an innocent man.

“These are the actions we are having to take to help an innocent man.”

The advert was published in the newspaper on April 30, and encourages jurors to contact an e-mail to a company called Regie Productions, or call a Bolton phone number.

The Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 inserted into the Juries Act 1974, a new provision making it an offence to disclose information about a jury’s deliberations or to solicit or obtain such information.