Rebecca Da Silva

Other Notable Cases:

• Operation Oklib and Erudite (2025)

   

  Successfully prosecuted (led by Graham Russell) an Organised Crime Group supplying heroin and crack cocaine in and around the Smethwick and Sandwell areas of the West Midlands by way of a telephone operation referred to as the S-Line. 

   

   

• Operation Lydstep (2024-2025)

   

  Defending an individual in an ongoing case involving allegations of cruelty, and physical and sexual abuse of pupils at a school in Worcester between the late 1970’s and 1991.

   

   

• Operation Cranberry (2023)

   

  Successfully prosecuted (led by Graham Russell) 7 individuals charged with conspiracies to transfer prohibited firearms and ammunition. 

   

   

• R v Vuong, Le & Nguyen (2022)

   

  Successfully defended an individual charged alongside two others with production of a large scale quantity of cannabis at an industrial unit in Birmingham. This case involved the defence of modern slavery and the Jury later acquitted Rebecca’s client. 

   

   

• R v Robotham (2022)

   

  Successfully prosecuted an individual charged with Wounding with Intent, where the individual stabbed the victim outside the Observatory Public House in Lozells. 

   

   

• R v Maloney (2022)

   

  Successfully prosecuted an individual charged wounding with Intent whereby the individual repeatedly stabbed the victim with a machete having forced his way into his home whilst masked. 

   

   

• R v Hurt & others (2021)

   

  Successfully defended (led by Adrian Langdale KC) an individual charged alongside three others with a revenge Murder, where all four individuals travelled from Nottingham to Birmingham where the deceased was fatally stabbed. The Jury later acquitted Rebecca’s client of murder. 

   

   

• R v N & M (2019)

   

  Successfully appeared in the Court of Appeal on a case involving an assault on a 14-year-old. This involved arguments on the interplay between the Assault and Child Cruelty Guidelines. 

   

   

• R v A & Others (2019) 

   

  Successfully defended an application brought on behalf of the Chief Constable of Derbyshire for a Sexual Risk Order against a number of defendants who were said to have been a part of a sexual grooming ring involving underage girls in Nottingham and Derby.