Case News

Leading Caroline Harris, Tim secured the acquittal of a young adult on charges of facilitating transport with a view to exploitation after a seven week trial in a case which had a history of serious disclosure failings.  The two complainants were aged between 15 and 17 at the time of alleged offences but made complaints as […]

Tim Hannam KC and Caroline Harris prosecuted Omari Lauder (23) and Obi Mpho (22) for murder and secured their conviction on 17th May 2024 following a three week trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court in which the only eye witnesses were the defendants themselves and where the victim had himself been armed with a knife and

Andrew Davidson, leading Jas Dhaliwal, recently prosecuted a man charged with firing a handgun in Birmingham’s busy city centre whilst crowds of people were present. At around 3:30am on 17th June 2023, Deraj Meade fired two gunshots on John Bright Street in Birmingham. At that time, the area was crowded with members of the public coming

Robert Tolhurst represented an 82-year-old man, of exemplary character, who had pleaded guilty to Attempted Murder on a previous occasion. After a 50-year marriage characterised by unconditional love and unstinting care for his wife and son, the defendant attempted to take his own life and his son’s following the death of his beloved wife.  The

A team of three cannabis growers were sentenced on Wednesday 8th May 2024 to a total of over 12 years’ imprisonment following their successful prosecution by Mia McNevin at Coventry Crown Court. In the trial, the jury were told that the cultivation was on an industrial scale and the value of the cannabis plants seized

Trial started this week at Winchester Crown Court of 37-year old Winter Swan-Miller for the murder of a 62-year old former soldier in his Andover home in June last year. Gurdeep Garcha KC and Adam Western, instructed by BH Mohammed solicitors, are defending. It is the prosecution case that the defendant inveigled her way into

On 18th April, following a nine-day trial at Warwick Crown Court, Caroline Harris’ 20-year-old client was acquitted of ‘gang rape’, following a successful submission that there was no case for the defendant to answer. He and four other defendants were said to have taken a young woman to a Coventry hotel room under false pretences, to

Gurdeep Garcha K.C. and Curtis Myrie are defending a Smethwick man charged with the murder of a 24 year old DPD driver, who was beaten to death whilst out making deliveries in Shrewsbury in August 2023.  The defendant is charged alongside four other men. It is the prosecution case that the defendants hatched a plan

Gurdeep Garcha K.C. is defending a Black Country man charged with the murder of 16 year old who was stabbed to death in a street in Stourbridge Town Centre in July 2023. The defendant is charged alongside three others. It is the prosecution case that the group were jointly in possession of a 22 inch

Following a six-day jury trial at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court, Nicholas secured not guilty verdicts for his client on all charges of historic offences of child rape.   The client was alleged to have repeatedly raped his then 13-year-old female cousin in various locations in 2009. She provided numerous accounts of being raped to healthcare professionals