Practice area
Criminal offences and defences, sentencing, criminal appeals, confiscation and proceeds of crime, and criminal procedure and evidence.
BB was arrested in May 2024 on suspicion of coercive and controlling behaviour towards his former partner, Z, and later arrested and charged with breaching a non-molestation order made against him; he faces trial on indictment…
Mr Alex Jermejan was convicted in his absence by the District Court in Jihlava, Czechia, on 29 November 2021 of a fraud committed on 17 July 2020, when he borrowed CZK 240,000 (some £7,929.60) said to serve as a guarantee for a…
On 13 September 2025 police officers attended a terraced house in Hebden Bridge, having been called about a van parked outside which was said to have been involved in fly tipping the previous day. Inside they found plant pots…
The applicant, Tyrone Henn, was tried in the Crown Court at Warwick before His Honour Judge Andrew Lockhart KC and a jury on a 43 count indictment brought against him and four co-defendants, which included counts of theft…
The appellant, Mohammed Ibrahim, was one of eight people prosecuted in connection with a night-time raid on a home in Coventry. Shortly after midnight on 19 June 2023 Daniel Ha and his partner, Ms Somjettana, were asleep when…
The appellant, a 43-year-old man, was the father of a 13-year-old girl who had been communicating on social media with the complainant, referred to in the judgment as "G", a boy then aged 14. On the morning of 15 March 2025 G was…
The appellant, then aged 37, encountered the complainant, referred to as B, at a bus station in Hyde at about eight or nine o'clock on the evening of 1 October 2022, where she was socialising with friends. He was on his way home…
On the afternoon of 14 September 2021 two packages made to resemble explosive devices, together with a smoke canister, were left in Gray's Inn, one outside 3 Verulam Buildings, the chambers of Mr Andrew Sutcliffe KC and Miss Anne…
The applicant, referred to as MIK, had been in a relationship with the complainant, C1, for over 20 years. The prosecution case was that throughout the relationship he had been controlling and coercive: he prevented C1 from…
At around 10.30 pm on 14 October 2022 Mr Koray Alpergin, a well-known broadcaster within the UK Turkish community, was returning home by car with his partner, Ms Dalbudak, when the pair were attacked by a group of males and…