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Gurdeep Garcha K.C defends in Stourbridge machete murder of 16 year old
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
Defendant acquitted of multiple offences of child rape
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
Dan White prosecutes an organised crime group who had stolen cash and jewellery worth over £200,000
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.
Gurdeep Garcha K.C’s and Adam Western defend in Coventry ‘Body in a TV Box’ murder
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.
Rachel Brand KC and Nicholas Berry prosecuted two teenagers (aged 19 and 16 years) convicted by a jury of murder following a three-week trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
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
Henry Skudra successfully applies for warrant of commitment in huge tax fraud confiscation matter.
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