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Emily Verity successfully prosecutes sexual predator of vulnerable young girls

Mohamoud, 31, specifically targeted vulnerable girls aged 12-15 via social media sites. Some, he knew, were in specialist residential or foster care. He bribed the girls with offers of money, clothes or drugs to meet with him and friends for sex. More…

James Thacker and Thom Dyke: Convictions secured in £7½ million frauds

James Thacker and Thom Dyke secured convictions against four defendants for their role in a sophisticated global conspiracy to defraud over £7½ million. The conspirators targeted victims ranging from multinational companies to vulnerable elderly people.
After a five week trial before HHJ Perrins and…

Tom Little QC appears in Supreme Court for the Director of Public Prosecutions in high-profile judicial review claim

The Supreme Court will today hear an appeal from the judgment of the Divisional Court in Belhaj and Boudchar v the DPP & The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2017] EWHC 3056 on whether a decision not to prosecute…

Court of Appeal success for Thom Dyke in sentencing appeal

The Court of Appeal today overturned a sentence imposed for serious and repeated breaches of a restraining order. Mr O’Hagan, who was represented by Thom Dyke, sought to appeal his sentence on the basis that, in light of the recent case of…

Life Sentence for man who raped boy in care

On 26th January 2018 His Honour Judge Perrins sentenced Kennedy Tisson to a life sentence for offences of rape and indecent assault. Tisson had been found guilty in December 2017 after a trial at Wood Green Crown Court of raping a child…

Claire Harden-Frost successfully prosecutes offender for multiple rape offences committed in the early 1990s

On 6th December 2017 a jury sitting at Wood Green Crown Court convicted the defendant Kennedy Tisson of raping a child in the 1990s. The victim, who cannot be named, was in local authority care when first raped by Tisson who was…

Andrew Ritchie QC wins 5-year legal battle: Dumper truck injures young mother

Andrew Ritchie QC representing Charli Lewington achieves a long overdue change in road traffic law providing better protection for the public against uninsured drivers.
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James Thacker successfully prosecutes landlord who raped intoxicated tenant

The jury unanimously convicted WB, a landlord who raped his tenant whilst she was intoxicated and unconscious. After the rape he took three indecent images of her to keep as a trophy. Following conviction and despite his previous good character he was…

Emily Verity successfully prosecutes bouncer who raped unconscious girl he met at a nightclub

Kelvin Jones was unanimously convicted by a jury who heard evidence that earlier in the evening the victim had sexual intercourse with a stranger in the nightclub. The defendant had noticed them going to the toilets together and kept his eye on…

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