Practice area
Criminal offences and defences, sentencing, criminal appeals, confiscation and proceeds of crime, and criminal procedure and evidence.
The appellant, Marvin Franzen, pleaded guilty before Liverpool Magistrates' Court and on 24 December 2025 was committed to the Crown Court for sentence under section 14 of the Sentencing Act 2020 in respect of one offence of…
The appellant, Khalid Masaud Quereshi, had been an approved driving instructor for 32 years, teaching over 1,000 pupils and holding a clean licence throughout. He advertised his Mercedes A200 for sale at £13,000 and, on 1 May…
Early in the morning of 17 August 2024, Dariush Hashemi attempted to rape a woman referred to as "LV" in a hotel car park in Wembley. LV was heavily inebriated — urine tests suggested roughly twice the drink-drive limit — and had…
The appellant, Tina McDonagh, entered shops in Coventry with a female friend on 9 April 2025, twice on 23 April 2025 and again on 7 May 2025, stealing goods worth £1,030, £855, £40 and £480 respectively. On 7 July 2025, the day…
The appellant, Ashley Sutcliffe (Clough), was sentenced in the Crown Court at Kingston upon Hull by HHJ Mark Bury on 22 May 2026, following guilty pleas, to 27 months' imprisonment for assault occasioning actual bodily harm…
The Appellant, Lloyds PR Solicitors, represented Kieran Farrell before the Crown Court at Winchester under a representation order made on 27 July 2024. The Defendant was one of ten defendants on a nine-count indictment concerning…
On 20 August 2024 at around 6.45 pm Claudiu Carol Kondor was delivering parcels for Amazon in the Armley area of Leeds, using his own silver transit van and wearing a high vis jacket. While he was away from the vehicle, which was…
The applicant, James Vaux, was a director of HV Civils & Construction Ltd ("HVCC"), a fibre optic installation business he ran with his business partner Lee Higgs, which used around five tonnes of tarmac a day to make good roads…
The prosecution appealed against a ruling made by His Honour Judge Collery KC at a preparatory hearing in the Basildon Crown Court, and the Court of Appeal Criminal Division gave judgment on that appeal on 4 March 2026, reported…
Shortly after 4am on 25 April 2025 the appellant, Anthony Kalinga, was involved in an altercation with an acquaintance, Ebima Cessay, in Old Christchurch Road, Bournemouth. Mr Cessay was using two crutches, apparently because of…
The appellant, Michael Haslam, set up M and J Builders Ltd on 11 January 2016 and was its sole director. From July 2019 the company struggled financially, accruing tax and national insurance liabilities and taking out loans; by…
The appellant, Kamrans Solicitors, acted for Lawrence Mafune in the Crown Court at Leeds under a Representation Order made on 24 January 2025. The Crown's case was that the defendant, together with one co-defendant, had been…
The appellant, Sinead Cahill, was a neighbour of the complainant, who invited her back to her flat late at night on 5 April 2024. The appellant, already intoxicated through alcohol and, on her account, having taken cocaine…
Darren Hewitson was sentenced on 8 March 2008 to imprisonment for public protection with a minimum term of four years expiring on 28 March 2012, and is also subject to concurrent IPP sentences imposed on 10 October 2008, with a…
On 5 April 2020, less than a month into the first Covid-19 lockdown, Muhammed Jassey was stabbed once in the chest on Whitehawk Road, Brighton, and died; the blade was at least 17cm long and severe force was used. Mr Richardson…
The appellant, Lloyds PR Solicitors, acted under a Representation Order made on 24 October 2022 for Connor Moore in proceedings before the Crown Court at Maidstone. The defendant had been arrested on 15 September 2020 in…
The appellant, Blendi Aliaj, was a man of 34 and of previous good character who had come to the UK some six years earlier and worked in the construction industry doing groundwork. The work was well paid but periodical, and his…
Nottingham City Council applied for and obtained an interim Anti-Social Behaviour Injunction against Lee Frazer on 29 July 2026, at a hearing held without notice to him. The council's application arose from Mr Frazer's attendance…
The appellant, a Romanian national aged 41 and a labourer in the construction industry, met the complainant, Lorna Povey, in 2020 and they lived together at her flat. Around two and a half years into the relationship he began…
The applicant, Gregor Bauld, was the only child of Christine Bauld and her husband Thomas, living in Burbage near Hinkley. Well brought up in a comfortable home, his life had become blighted from the age of 13 or 14 by chronic…