Practice area
Criminal offences and defences, sentencing, criminal appeals, confiscation and proceeds of crime, and criminal procedure and evidence.
The appellant, Mikail Jones, was tried and convicted at the Central Criminal Court before Mr Recorder Malcolm Fortune. He appealed against conviction, and on 3 June 2026 the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) dismissed that…
The appellant, Paul Stuart Adams, then aged 78, was a former teacher who had also mentored teenage boys in extra-curricular music and drama activities. The prosecution case was that over five decades, going back to 1977/78, he…
At around 11.30 pm on 24 June 2022 Lee Woodward left the Liquor Vaults public house in Stoke-on-Trent and walked down Trade Street. The appellant, Gregory Twigg, was a passenger in a Vauxhall Astra driven by Nathan Lockley which…
The applicant, Nana Oppong, was convicted on 28 May 2024 following a trial in the Crown Court at Woolwich before Bennathan J and a jury of all four counts on the indictment: the murder of Robert Powell, known as "Fox", who was…
The appellant, a man now in his 60s who is profoundly deaf, communicates only through British Sign Language and is unable to read, was convicted at Lewes Crown Court on 28 November 2025 of a single count of rape committed against…
The claimant, Wayne Truter, a serving prisoner acting in person, was convicted of sexual offences against children in 2014 and given an extended determinate sentence, later reduced on appeal to an 11-year custodial term, and was…
The appellant, a man in his 60s who is profoundly deaf, communicates only through British Sign Language and is unable to read, was convicted at Lewes Crown Court on 28 November 2025, following a trial before His Honour Judge…
AC, a 20-year-old woman with a moderate learning disability, a genetic microduplication condition, impaired mobility and some visual impairment, travelled to Pakistan with her mother CA, her maternal grandmother BC and a family…
The applicant, Kevin Kelenda, pleaded guilty at the Crown Court at Wood Green on 13 December 2024 to having an article with a blade or point. On 27 March 2025, following a trial at the Crown Court at Woolwich before HHJ Aubrey…
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…
The applicant, Muhammad Abid, had been convicted in January 2018 of failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism, contrary to section 38B of the Terrorism Act 2000, in relation to Umar Haque's secret radicalisation of…
The appellant was tried at the Crown Court at Winchester before HHJ Jane Miller KC on an indictment charging one count of attempted rape, contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Attempts Act 1981, and one count of rape, contrary…