"I have dealt with a large number of cases in my career that involved defendants being prosecuted for a wide ranger of serious offences such as murder, large scale drug offences, high value frauds and offences involving firearms as well as very serious sexual offences. The cases are often complex and involve multi jurisdictions.
I have also dealt with a number of cases relating to Confiscation and Forfeiture proceedings. I have further experiences of cases in the High Court such as Judicial Review and Contempt of Court proceedings and numerous cases in the Court of Appeal including sentences referred by the Attorney General for being unduly lenient.
Cases have often been prosecuted by the Serious Fraud Office, the Financial Conduct Authority, HMRC, National Crime Agency, Health and Safety Executive
I appear regularly at the police station, magistrates court and the youth court.
Notable cases include
R v P - represented a defendant in a case involving an industrial scale factory producing fake Xanax pills using a newly discovered and at that time unclassified psychoactive substance. There are on going confiscation proceedings involving large amounts of crypto currency and the prosecution seeking to recover £33 million pounds
R v A - represented a defendant charge with a double murder in relation to family court proceedings. The sentence the defendant received was referred to the Court of Appel for being unduly lenient
R v L – represented youth defendant charged with murder in a gang related feud
R v W - represented a defendant charged with the murder of a vulnerable woman. The defendant was acquitted whilst the co defendant was convicted and received a life sentence of 22 years.
R v D - represented a defendant charged with possession with intent to supply heroin with a street value of £1 million and facing 14 years imprisonment if convicted. He was acquitted after trial. His two co defendants had pleaded guilty prior to trial.
R v P - represented a defendant in what was believed to be the largest ever Ponzi scheme fraud in the country valued at £115 million. The Defendant was acquitted of all dishonesty offences and was only convicted of one regulatory offence.
R v M - represented the only defendant to be acquitted in a conspiracy to defraud case involving a complex carbon credit fraud and multiple defendants.
R v R - represented the only defendant to be acquitted in a case of multiple defendants accused of running a firearms factory in London.
R v H - represented one of only two defendants to be acquitted of a large scale conspiracy drugs case involving 15 defendants. The conspiracy was said to have been masterminded from inside prison.
Operation Hayrick - represented defendant in multi handed MTIC Fraud valued at £35million. The defendant eventually received a suspended sentence, which was believed to be one of the few instances where such a sentence was passed in these types of cases.
o R v D - a prosecution by the Serious Fraud Office at Liverpool Crown Court involving the financing of a gold processing plant in the US that was alleged to have been an enormous Ponzi scheme that defrauded a large number of UK investors out of millions of pounds.
o R v K - represented a female accused of smuggling Indian Nationals into the UK disguised as musicians. The Defendant had originally been exposed by the 'Fake Sheik"", Mazhar Mahmood of the News of the World. This was a VHCC case where I was given special dispensation to be a VHCC supervisor despite being only a grade B fee earner at that stage.
o R v P - represented Defendant in a prosecution by the City of London Police that related to a website on the ""dark web"" selling fake documents and other items to a large number of criminals. The prosecution involved police forces in Spain, Hong Kong, Holland and the US.
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