Cases

Reported in the Press as ‘the Billon Dollar Bruvs’ to reflect their level of involvement in international drug trafficking. Over £5m in cash was found on their arrest and tens of millions in assets were uncovered.

The importation of 30 kilos of cocaine which involved the use of telephone intercepts provided by the Dutch authorities.

A complicated plan to open up a drugs route in to the country via Tilbury Docks that involved corrupt dockworkers’ forging paper work and allowing the gang access to restricted customs areas.

Leading counsel for the defendant whose co-accused was his father. This case involved a substantial tax fraud of many millions of pounds over a number of years. The fraud was committed by the creation of false purchase invoices to account for cash payments that were in fact being paid to a large workforce of building contractors thus avoiding the relevant taxes. The loss to the Revenue was in the tens of millions.

A ‘shaken baby’ case. Represented the father in a trial where the mother gave evidence for the Crown.

A multi-handed revenge attack that led to a stabbing outside a nightclub. The defendant was extradited from Canada to face trial.

Appeared as leading junior in a conspiracy to murder. This was the high profile ‘Angolan Witchcraft’ case tried at the Old Bailey where the defendants were accused of torturing and then placing an eight year old girl in a bag and threatening to drown her in a river. This was investigated by the police unit set up after the ‘Torso in the Thames case’ and has been the subject of a number of television documentaries.

A bungled contract killing where the defendant was the driver of the vehicle in a drive by shooting. It was suspected that the victim, who was shot in front of his 6 year old daughter and two year old son outside his parents address, was in fact the brother of the intended target. The defendant attempted to burn out the vehicle used but the fire did not take hold and his DNA was found in the vehicle. This case featured on the BBC’s Crimewatch programme and the gunman remains at large.

Two days after the shooting of PC Beshenivsky in Bradford her murderer Muzzaker Shah left a council estate in South London where he had been in hiding to travel to Wales. He was assisted by the defendant who with another drove him to Wales. The defendant then rented premises and stayed with Shah for nearly two weeks before the Police laid siege to the flat. After nearly 24 hours the defendant convinced Shah to surrender. A great deal of the Crown’s case relied upon cell site evidence.