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Criminal offences and defences, sentencing, criminal appeals, confiscation and proceeds of crime, and criminal procedure and evidence.
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The National Crime Agency (NCA) is conducting a wide-ranging civil recovery investigation into money laundering and illegal gambling in the Far East. On 12 August 2025 Ellenbogen J made a disclosure order under section 357 of…
The offender, a woman of 47 with no previous convictions, had been in an on-and-off relationship with the victim, Mr Strudwick, for about seven months, and both regularly used cocaine. In the early hours of 5 November 2024 he…
The offender and the victim had been married for 12 years. They had been separated for two years but still lived in the same house, in separate bedrooms. The victim shared her bedroom with their two young children. On 6 February…
Hodge Jones and Allen, a firm of solicitors, acted for Nathan O'Brien in proceedings before the Crown Court at Portsmouth, where he was indicted on a single count of conspiracy to kidnap. The defence was publicly funded under a…
Mr Fitzgerald was sentenced to life imprisonment on 7 May 2010 for a murder committed on 16 April 2009, with a minimum term of 13 years which, allowing for a qualifying curfew, expired on 14 September 2022. Following an oral…
The applicant, Gezim Cela, is sought by the Government of Albania for extradition to serve a ten-year prison sentence imposed in December 2018 for a group export of some 50kg of cannabis from Albania to Kosovo in October 2015. He…
The applicant, Riad Mushrafi, was a serving prisoner who came to be sentenced in the Crown Court at Northampton before His Honour Judge David Herbert KC for his conduct towards two female prison officers. He grabbed the buttocks…
The appellant, Mr David Lyons, was the trial advocate for Mr Robert Webb, who stood trial with two co-defendants on a two-count indictment alleging conspiracy to import controlled drugs. All three had pleaded not guilty and the…
Oliver Davis and Cory Heath were involved in a violent street incident in the early hours of 29 August 2021 after George Barker and two friends left a nightclub. Mr Barker went to support a friend who was surrounded by a group of…
The applicant, now 53, had been an Imam at Northampton's Central Mosque since 1996 and had no previous convictions. In November 2023 he was approached by a 16-year-old girl who asked him to conduct a Nikah ceremony with her…
Mr Balbir Singh, counsel, represented Christopher Booton in proceedings before the Crown Court at Worcester, the defence being funded by criminal legal aid under a representation order dated 28 November 2024. The Defendant…
Claire Holland, then 32, was last seen alive on 6 June 2012, when she spent much of the day and evening at the Seamus O'Donnell's public house in Bristol. Her body was never found, her phone was never used again and her bank…
The appellant, Mr Colin Stiles, was training to become an Approved Driving Instructor with the driving school Bill Plant, which sponsored him. On 16 April 2025 he attended a football match with his 19-year-old son, having drunk…
The offender, referred to as OIM to protect the lifelong anonymity of the victim under the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992, was born on 26 September 1996. His younger sister, KB, was born on 6 May 2002, some five years and…
The appellant, Brian Harrison, pleaded guilty in the Crown Court at Newcastle upon Tyne to six counts of historical sexual abuse committed in the 1970s, when he was 17: four counts of indecent assault on a male contrary to…
The appellant, George Wood, was 77 at the time of the incident and is now 80, with no previous convictions and no offending since. He was driving his wife's Mini Countryman, with her as a passenger, on a straight stretch of road…
Alan Newlove, formerly Alun Phillips, was convicted of the murder of his wife on 15 December 2000 and sentenced to life imprisonment; his appeal was dismissed in R v Phillips. After his minimum term expired, the Parole Board…
The claimants are nine Lloyd's syndicate interests ("the Insurers") who wrote the Second Excess layer of Petrofac Ltd's Directors & Officers programme, Policy No. FD1640350, providing £45 million of cover in excess of £30…
Three Polish nationals — Lukasz Chromczuk, Szulejewski and Artur Kowalski — sought permission to appeal against orders for their extradition to Poland. Mr Chromczuk was sought on a conviction warrant issued on 30 May 2025 and…
The two applicants, Christopher Round and Frederick Collins, were sentenced in the Crown Court at Snaresbrook for offences arising out of two robberies. On 26 December 2024 Collins and another man approached James Eves in…