Crime

Case Examples

Fraud

R-v B Pearson (Court of Appeal-Criminal Division)
Defendant convicted of ILEA education fraud. Instructed to deal with Appeal against conviction, sentence and confiscation before a full court of the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal.

R-v-K S and others (Southwark Crown Court)
Described by Customs and Excise as ‘one (perhaps the largest) of a very large number of cases involving VAT fraud’. The case involves a Carousel fraud involving some 18 co-defendants with an estimated loss to the revenue of £250 million. Sukhdev is instructed as junior counsel to Nigel Sangster QC. The matter is a designated VHCC.

Murder and other violent offences

R-v- Risat Ali Khan (Sheffield Crown Court)
Defendant, along with 2 others, charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Case dismissed on the first day of trial following a successful application to dismiss the charges.

R-v-Marvin Tyson (Birmingham Crown Court)
The defendant, along with another, is charged with murder. The case involves a fatal stabbing outside the Q club in the city centre of Birmingham. The case involves issue of joint enterprise. Sukhdev is instructed as junior counsel to Christopher Hotton QC.

R-v-Jordan Churchill (Derby Crown Court)
Defendant charged with Aggravated Burglary, involving forcing entry into the complainant’s house and assaulting the complainant with a sawn off shot gun. The court considered the issue of dangerousness.

R-v-Ryan Daros (Birmingham Crown Court)
Defendant, together with 8 others, charged with violent disorder. All defendants, save for 2 are youths. Issue of identification by police officers from CCTV evidence

Drugs

R-v-Alan Knott (Liverpool Crown Court)
Conspiracy to import vast amounts of class A and Class B drugs into the Northwest of England. Defendant’s role described as ‘joint head of the transport organisation’. Case involved evidence of a ‘super grass’.

R-v-J Rae and others (Old Bailey)
The case related to a large scale conspiracy involving the importation and distribution of Class A drugs. The case involved volumes of covert and intrusive surveillance which showed links to the notorious Turkish mafia ‘The Baybasins’ There were 4-5 weeks of legal arguments involving abuse of process, PII, Section 44 Criminal Justice Act 2003 application for trial without a jury.

R-v- D Nyugen (Court of Appeal-Criminal Division)
Case involved cultivation of cannabis on a large scale. Represented the defendant at the Court of Appeal during which the full court gave some guidance in relation to sentencing for cultivation of cannabis [R-v- XU and others (2007) EWCA Crim 3129].

R-v-Sheraz Ali and others (Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court)
Conspiracy to supply Class A drugs to uncover police officers (Operation Nemesis).

Sexual offences

R-v-Leon Dixon (Wolverhampton Crown Court)
Defendant charged with sexual assault and indecent exposure. Case involved issue of fitness to plead.

R-v- Craig Watkins (Wolverhampton Crown Court)
Defendant charged with sexual activity in the presence of children, one of whom was 6 years old. Case involved issues of “dangerousness”.