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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Operation Abridge was a reactive investigation into a series of armed robberies committed in the West Midlands between November 2022 and June 2023 which resulted in over £200,000 of cash and jewellery being stolen. The five commercial robberies were committed by an organised crime group, all of whom were convicted. Teams of three disguised individuals
Gurdeep Garcha K.C. and Adam Western are defending a Coventry woman charged with the murder of a 74 year old man whose badly injured body was found in a television box, in a shed in the Kersley area of Coventry. The defendant is charged alongside a 17 year old youth. It is the prosecution case
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The victim, 18 year old Jack Lowe, was stabbed in an unprovoked and premeditated attack within an area of grassland in Darlaston near Walsall. After the attack the defendants were seen and heard on CCTV footage to be celebrating as they left the scene. The defendants will be sentenced in January 2024.
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