Graham Parkins QC prosecutes and defends all types of criminal law. He has extensive experience in cases involving murder, sexual offences, child abuse, drugs and fraud. He has appeared in dozens of murder trials, the best known being the "Essex Range Rover Murders". Recent homicide cases include a double murder by a door-to-door salesman, the manslaughter and wilful neglect of a six-year-old girl by her father and step-mother, and manslaughter arising from a violent robbery.
He maintains strong links in East Anglia and is regularly retained in cases at a very early stage. He has often been requested by the officers of the Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex police forces to be retained in murder cases. The same is true in respect of numerous defence solicitors, soon after they have been instructed.
Significant Cases in 2009
R v Hynes (28.9.09): Prosecution of a successful solicitor for serious sexual offences over a three-year period.
R v O'Keefe (26.6.09): Prosecution of a life-term prisoner who murdered an elderly man in his own home whilst on the run.
R v Cowles (9.6.09): Defence in case arising from manslaughter of a banker who intervened to stop an assault.
R v Chandler (29.5.09): Defence in a forensically complex, multi-handed case of murder by burning.
Earlier Notable Cases
R v Leslie (28.5.08): Defence in a trial arising from the widely reported stabbing of a policewoman outside her home.
R v Walker (06.01.2008, Central Criminal Court): A multi-handed murder trial in which John Ward was killed by a shotgun round, intended for the victim's friend. The three defendants were all found guilty of murder and were sentenced to a total of at least 55 years in prison.
R v Watson (07.08.2007, Crown Court): Watson was convicted of the murder by stabbing of a security guard who had challenged him for a shoplifting offence and sentenced to a minimum term of 24 years' imprisonment.
R v Nunn and Hill (20.11.2006, Crown Court): The widely reported murder of a woman whose body was doused with petrol and set on fire by the accused. A second defendant was convicted of assisting an offender by helping to dispose of the body.
R v Kayretli and anor (04.07.00; Court of Appeal - Criminal Division): In this case doubts about a Home Office pathologist's court evidence led to the release of a couple convicted of killing the victim and entombing him in a block of concrete.
