EXAMPLES OF CASES:

Homicide and violence

• R v. H – Attempted murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life. The defendant was charged with another in relation to the drive by shooting of a male who suffered life changing injury.
• R v. W – Murder. The victim suffered head injury as a result of striking the pavement after being flung to the ground which subsequently resulted in his death.
• R v. R – Unlawful wounding. Victim suffered a broken eye socket and skull.
• R v. B – Possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life – Discharging of a firearm through a bedroom window from which someone had just appeared.
• R v. M – Multi-handed case involving weapon-enabled violence, robbery, kidnap and false imprisonment of a male and his girlfriend.
• R v. D – Multi-handed violent disorder including a fatality. The defendant faced proceedings along with many co-defendants, including for conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm on his part.
• R v. B – Murder. Resulting from a fatal stabbing in a busy London bar.

Sexual offences

• R v. A – Sexual assault allegation on the London Underground tube network.
• R v. C – Rape. - The defendant was charged with stranger rape involving the added trauma of robbing and thieving from his victim.
• R v. M – Serious sexual assault by penetration by a previously convicted sex-offender against his cousin.
• R v. H – Serious sexual assault on numerous occasions including penetration by a male of his step-grand daughter.
• R v. D – Causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent. Vulnerable mentally disabled male forced to engage in penetrative anal sex with the defendant.

Organised crime

• R v. N – Multi-handed case of kidnapping along with robbery, false imprisonment, blackmail and burglary on the indictment.
• R v. M – The defendant herself was a female prostitute who was charged along with others with conspiracy to traffic persons into and also within the United Kingdom for sexual exploitation. She was also charged with controlling prostitution for gain and related money laundering offending. The prosecution brought against the criminal gang involved both UK police and the Romanian authorities and many prosecution witnesses gave evidence via live-link from a Romanian Court.
• R v. T – Cash-transit / ATM armed robbery, including possession of a firearm, with a loss of c. £235,000.
• R v. C – Importation of a significant quantity of Khat through London Southend Airport
• R v. N – The defendant was prosecuted with others for armed robbery concerning the robbing of a number of jewellers with the use of serious violence including the use of a stun gun.
• R v. D – Conspiracy to steal motor vehicles and receiving stolen motor vehicle. Large scale theft of luxury cars for part stripping.
• R v. S – Armed Robbery. The defendant was prosecuted along with others after a Flying Squad investigation, involving twelve armed robberies on bookmakers in London and the home-counties with the use of firearms.
• R v. S – Controlling prostitution for gain. Organised sex parties with an allegation of trafficked women partaking alongside consenting pornographic models.

Fraud, Money laundering and Proceeds of Crime (POCA)

• R v. P – The defendant was a leading role in this advance fee fraud conspiracy with 187 victims across the country and a loss exceeding £1 million.
• R v. P – The defendant was a leading role in this conspiracy defrauding a well-known national business with around £280,000 losses suffered.
• R v. A – The defendant was a company director prosecuted along with other professional businessmen in relation to money laundering.
• R v. D – Conspiracy to defraud and money laundering involving several senior charity figures with a c. £5.5 million loss suffered as a result of the Gift Aid fraud.
• R v. H – Immigration fraud – The defendant was prosecuted along with others following a Panorama exposé into mass-scale fake student exam-sittings and production of fraudulent banking material and qualifications to permit extensions to student visas for foreign nationals otherwise not entitled to the same.
• R v. M – Cheating the public revenue. The defendant was a qualified accountant and director concerned with defrauding HMRC to the sum of c. £170,000.
• R v. C – Theft and Fraud. Theft of significant sums of money over a lengthy period of time by a carer in significant breach of trust.