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Education
LL.B (Hons) Manchester Polytechnic
Areas of Practice
I practice entirely in crime and regularly appear in high profile
cases of significant gravity. I both lead and appear as junior counsel.
Recent Criminal
Cases
I recently appeared as junior counsel in an allegation of
manslaughter. The allegation being that my client shook his child to
death, the defence being a medical one. Many experts have been called by
both sides.
I recently appeared as junior counsel and assisted in securing an
acquittal for a solid fuel engineer who was charged with Gross
Negligence Manslaughter.
I represented the Defendant in R v Andrew Furby (2005) EWCA 3147
who was charged with murder and pleaded guilty to manslaughter. This
case was reviewed on appeal against sentence and is now effectively the
guideline sentence case on "one punch manslaughter". I have subsequently
been instructed by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals in similar cases.
I appeared in R v Elidon Bregu securing an acquittal on most
counts and R v Shaban Maka (2006) 2 Cr. App, (S). 14 CA which
were two of the first prosecutions in the country for the new "people
trafficking" offences under the Sexual Offences Act 2003. I took R v
Maka to the Court of Appeal and it is now a sentencing authority.
I was junior counsel in R v Shaun Booker in 2002. The Defendant was
acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter. The evidence was based
almost entirely on "blood spatter distribution". In 2006 I secured leave
to appeal and had the conviction quashed, the Court of Appeal describing
the case as, "a serious miscarriage of justice".
In 2006 I appeared on
behalf of a sixteen year old charged with five others with an allegation
of the racially aggravated murder of a Huddersfield taxi driver. I
secured an acquittal on both murder and manslaughter.
Present Cases
I am due to lead in a
large scale conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and conspiracy to launder
criminal property. The Defendant is alleged to be the head of a Jamaican
drug gang.
I undertake all types of criminal work at all levels both prosecution
and defence.
Supplementary
Information
Member of the Criminal Bar Association
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