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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

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

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.

A defendant in one of the largest ever tax fraud cases, Operation Amazon (prosecuted at trial and confiscation by Tim Hannam K.C.), failed to pay anything but £70,409.56 of his £ multi-million confiscation order. Owing over £3.46 million, the defendant was ordered to serve a further 8 years and 9 months’ imprisonment. A C.P.S. press

Ferguson, aged 65,  was traveling at triple the 20mph speed limit on Pershore Road when he knocked 27-year-old Sisey Bilay off his moped. Mr Bilay  sustained fatal injuries at 8.05pm on June 27 last year. Ferguson admitted causing death by dangerous driving at Birmingham Crown Court and was sentenced to six years and nine months and banned from the road for