Crime

Significant cases

R v Wong
Defending a teenager involved in a gangland shooting in Manchester.

R v Henshall
Defendant acquitted of possessing an illegal handgun following successful defence that the .22 pistol should be classified as an antique.

R v T
Junior defence counsel to a man accused of attempting to murder and raping his ex-wife.

R v Castro
Defending international credit card fraudster. Castro’s exploits have been published in “Other People’s Money; the rise and fall of Britain’s Boldest Credit Card Fraudster” by Neil Forsyth, (Pan Books).

R v Patel
Defending in international organised crime fraud and kidnapping (now reported under R v Razzaq [2009] Cr. App. R (s) 553(83))

R v Abbas
Leading Junior in a case involving substantial benefit fraud.

R v Kitchen
Junior defence counsel for paranoid schizophrenic acquitted of murdering his sister. This case was a feature and reconstructed on Crimewatch. Read ‘This is Lancashire’ report. Read ‘Manchester Evening News’ report.

R v W
Defending teenager acquitted of torturing two children and recording the attack on a mobile phone. Read more

R v Ali
Operation Rigging – 4 year police operation into drug dealing in the Rochdale area.

R v Read
Defending Terence Read who gains national notoriety when filmed by the DWP having organised and performing at 1940’s style dance events. At the time Mr Read was claiming Mobility and Care Allowance. Read Sky News Report, Read Manchester Evening News Report

R v Fahy
Defending Andrew Fahy who is acquitted of an allegation that he committed an horrific machete attack upon two males. Read more in The Bolton News

R v Dunne
Defending schoolboy in “horror movie” robberies. Read more in the Manchester Evening News.

Regulatory

Recent Driving Cases

R v Cooper
Defending a disabled driver acquitted of causing the deaths of two motorcyclists. Read more.

R v Lakin
Defending a lorry driver sentenced to two years imprisonment for causing the death of a mother of three having driven his lorry into the rear of a queue of stationary traffic.

R v da Silva
Junior defence counsel to Portuguese lorry driver accused of killing a family of six on the M6 motorway. Acquitted of causing death by dangerous driving and convicted of the lesser alternative of causing death by careless driving. Read more

R v West
Defending a lorry driver acquitted of causing the death of a pedestrian following a fatal RTA.

R v Challinor
Defending GB athlete Ricky Challinor who was acquitted of involvement in a double death by dangerous driving. Read more

Other Regulatory matters

R v Haslam
Defending in the first Trading Standards prosecution brought under new European Food Hygiene Legislation for running an illegal slaughterhouse.

R v Muckers Ltd
Prosecuting a company for breach of Waste Management Regulations.

HSE v Royle
Defending breach of fire regulations in a city centre nightclub.

Nottingham Coroners: Inquest into the death of Christine Salt (road traffic accident)

West London Coroners: Inquest into the death of John McCrossen while in custody at HMP Wormwood Scrubs

Public Access