Practice area
Criminal offences and defences, sentencing, criminal appeals, confiscation and proceeds of crime, and criminal procedure and evidence.
The appellant, Patryk Procyk, met the complainant ("C") on 13 January 2024 in a McDonald's in North Acton, where he was sleeping as he was then homeless. Their friendship became a sexual relationship which C described as good…
The applicant, a Kenyan national now aged 36, married Ms Brooks in September 2018; they split their time between his home in Devon and her home in Kingston upon Thames. He was tried in the Crown Court at Kingston upon Thames on…
The applicant, referred to by the cipher "TIR" to protect the anonymity of her two children (aged 14 and 12), had been in a relationship with the complainant, "C", for about 11 years until he left in 2019. C described an unhappy…
Mohammed Al-Hassan and Mohammed Abdullah, both Sudanese nationals who had come to the United Kingdom as asylum seekers, encountered a 15-year-old girl, referred to as G, in Leicester Square in the early hours of 12 July 2024. G…
The applicant, Phillipe Dookhun, and his former wife ("C1") had been a couple for over 20 years and had three children together. They separated in 2020 but remained in an on-and-off relationship until April 2021, when C1 applied…
The appellant, Joshua Rennie-Owosu, born on 14 December 2004, faced two separate indictments for class A drugs offences in the Crown Court at Maidstone. The first arose from police observations of street dealing in the Luton…
The applicant, now aged 29, had been in a relationship with Shani Challis for about a year. In the early hours of Sunday 19 August 2023, after a night out in Brighton, the two argued in Whitehawk Crescent over the applicant's…
The applicant, Robert Edward O'Brien, was the neighbour and a family friend of two sisters, C1 and C2, when they were children. Each alleged that he had sexually abused them: C1 described digital penetration on numerous…
The appellant, Simon Smith, then aged 36, had been sentenced at Norfolk magistrates' court on 23 March 2022 for possessing or making indecent images of children — 154 category A, 12 category B and 8 category C images and an…
The appellant, Glynn Cross, was a trainee approved driving instructor. On 22 December 2025, while taking a pupil on a rural lesson, he became lost and used his mobile telephone to set a route; a police officer saw him using the…
The appellant, Zakya Bi Sadeeq, was an approved driving instructor whose name appeared on the Register of Approved Driving Instructors. On 30 November 2025 she used a mobile phone while driving a car and in consequence accrued…
The appellant, formerly known as Andrew Yorath, changed his name by deed poll on 13 February 2020 to Yossa Maunders. On 26 July 2024 in the Crown Court at Cardiff he pleaded guilty, having indicated his intention to plead guilty…
The appellant, Tyrone Jugessur, was sentenced by Mr Recorder Gregory Bull KC at the Crown Court at Cardiff on 1 April 2026 to a total of 40 months' imprisonment for nine offences arising out of three separate sets of offending…
The appellant, Lewis Atkins, was an approved driving instructor whose name the Registrar of Approved Driving Instructors removed from the Register by a decision of 23 February 2026, on the ground that he was no longer a fit and…
The applicant, Julie Michelle Pearce, was involved with two of her daughters, who were co-defendants, in illegal puppy breeding. On 24 April 2023 in the Crown Court at Cardiff she changed her plea to guilty, then aged 57, to two…
The appellant, Niki Dean Haycock, then aged 27, pleaded guilty on 21 March 2006 in the Crown Court at Kingston upon Hull to controlling prostitution for gain contrary to section 53 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (count one) and…
The appellant, Ellis Coulson, was 20 years old when, late in the evening on 3 November 2023, he attacked two strangers at a BP petrol station in Leicester. In an entirely unprovoked assault captured on CCTV, he slashed Toyton…
The Offender, aged 20 at sentence, pleaded guilty to a series of offences arising from indecent and prohibited images of children found on his mobile devices. The offending fell into three categories: possession, distribution and…
On 30 June 2023 Dudley CJ made a recovery order under Part V of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2015 against five appellants in respect of three items of property: Flat 8, Sunrise Court, Gibraltar; Commercial Units 1, 2 and 3, Water…
The applicant, referred to as WG, was accused of a series of sexual offences committed against his stepdaughter. He was tried before a jury in the Crown Court at Caernarfon, presided over by HHJ Parry, and was represented by…