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
Caroline Harris successfully defended in a case alleging large scale drug importation. The police uncovered an intended drugs consignment in the South of England disguised as a pallet of frozen chicken. In 24 boxes 8kg of cocaine were discovered. The police seized the drugs and repackaged the consignment, using reams of paper and books from a
Henry, kindly instructed by Benedict Harper of DWF Law LLP, represented an insurer in a private prosecution for fraud. After a 4-day trial the Defendant was unanimously convicted of 2 counts of fraud – receiving an 18-month suspended sentence order. Henry also successfully obtained an order for the entirety of the insurer’s legal and investigation
The Appellant was one of a large number of defendants in a major drug operation who was convicted, following trial, of conspiracy to supply class A drugs. He sought to appeal his sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment. Nicholas was instructed by the prosecution to oppose the appeal. The contested appeal was heard before Lord Justice William Davis, Mr. Justice Jacobs
Rachel Brand KC and Adam Western defended Carla Scott when she was tried for the murder of her 9-year old son, Alfie Steele. The jury at Coventry Crown Court cleared Ms Scott of murder. She was convicted of Alfie’s manslaughter. Mr Justice Wall sentenced Ms Scott, 35, on 15th June 2023 to 21 years’ imprisonment
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Jas Dhaliwal prosecuted two armed robbers who targeted Spar, Tesco and Sainsbury’s stores in Stourbridge over just a two day period in March 2022. Peter Marsden and Stephen Beckley were sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown Court for offences of robbery and possession of imitation firearms. The pair attended the stores with an imitation handgun with a
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Rachel Brand KC represented Williams Kokolo, who was acquitted by the unanimous verdict of the Jury following his trial at Coventry Crown Court. The Burton Albion player was accused of rape following an encounter with a woman he met on a dating app. He had always maintained that the sexual contact between them was fully
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Sania Shabbir, 26, was jailed for 4½ years on 14th June 2023 for killing Martyn Gall, 40 and causing life changing injuries to James Middleton, 31, on the A441 near Redditch just before 8am on Saturday 14th November 2020. Adam Western, prosecuting Shabbir, told Birmingham Crown Court that the two men were dedicated and experienced
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Uniquely (to our knowledge) we offer direct financial support to members returning from parental leave in order to cushion the cash flow impact of return to practice .
