This case was successfully prosecuted by the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office concerning the evasion £4.5 million in VAT. Between May 2004 and August 2004, the defendant, trading as a business, made purchases of mobile phones and computer chips from France and being imports they did not attract VAT. The phones and chips were then sold on usually the next day to a further company who, in turn, sold the items on to numerous other companies.
21.12.2007
A multi-million pound international drug smuggling operation, which was uncovered by police after they intercepted a lorry carrying more than half-a-tonne of cannabis.
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18.12.2007
A prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executive in which two construction firms were found to have breached Health and Safety Regulations. This breach resulted in a construction worker being left...
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12.12.2007
A high-profile and evidentially complex trial in which a Lithuanian lorry driver was found guilty of the manslaughter of an illegal immigrant whom he had smuggled with five others into the...
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10.12.2007
The murder trial of Peter Connolly, found guilty of murdering an 18-year-old teenager in Sheerness, Kent. Christopher Alaneme was left dying on a public bench after a knife penetrated his...
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04.12.2007
The defendant was convicted for the murder of his wife while on day release from prison.
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27.11.2007
A prosecution brought on behalf of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) concerning a multi-handed conspiracy to supply heroin. In March 2007 a car occupied by the two defendants was stopped...
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23.11.2007
This was the first prosecution under The Trade in Goods (Control) Order of a British arms dealer for conducting an illegal sale of 130 MPT 9 machine guns in the...
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21.11.2007
This case concerned a 37kg heroin importation with a street value of £2m.
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09.11.2007
A prosecution brought by the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office (RCPO) after an investigation with Dutch Law Enforcement uncovered a multi handed conspiracy to smuggle heroin. Three Dutch members of a criminal...
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07.11.2007
A high profile, multi-handed attempted murder trial. Three men were convicted of attacking a group of friends and trying to kill one of them. The victim was left partially paralysed...
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04.10.2007
This case concerned a widely reported benefit fraud scandal. Former UKIP MEP Ashley Mote, 71, was alleged to have falsely claimed benefits of more than £65,000. The offences, totalling £65,506...
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27.09.2007
A prosecution brought by HM Revenue & Customs concerning a company director, whose co-defendant (the finance director) pleaded guilty and gave evidence for the Crown.The director was accused of defrauding the Revenue...
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07.09.2007
Serious sexual offences committed by a medical practitiioner in a position of trust. The osteopath committed a series of sexual assaults on female patients, including an undercover policewoman.
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07.08.2007
Watson was convicted for the murder of a store detective who had challenged him for shoplifting after he stole a CD.
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02.08.2007
In a gang-land murder trial the court heard how George Francis, 63, from Beckenham, Kent, was shot four times by contract killers in 2003.
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01.08.2007
The defendant was charged with the murder of Jamal Moore. The case against him alleged he was involved in ‘tit-for-tat’ gang warfare.
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26.07.2007
Four teenaged defendants accused of the murder of a reclusive victim.
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20.07.2007
A murder trial arising from a feud between rival Albanian groups over territorial rights to steal from parking meters in central London.
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15.07.2007
The trial of seven British Muslim men involved in a bomb plot masterminded by convicted terrorist Dhiren Barot.
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09.07.2007
The trial of the four would-be suicide bombers involved in the 21st July bomb plot on the London Underground. Ibrahim, Omar, Mohammed, and Osman were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.
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29.06.2007
The defendant was convicted of fraud for deceiving investors into parting with £500 000 into a non-existent student housing scheme. Chavda persuaded victims to part with their money for "buy to...
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18.06.2007
The CPS prosecution of a serving police officer who had befriended an aged and infirm old lady and tricked her into signing cheques, money transfers and property conveyances, representing the...
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21.05.2007
A trial of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, described by the Metropolitan Police as national-level trafficking. The quality and purity of the 15 kilograms seized was such that this was...
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17.05.2007
A multi-million pound invoice discounting fraud. Over £85 million of false invoices were submitted to Riggs Bank Europe Limited, NMB Heller Limited and Banca Nazionale Dell Agricoltura. The four defendants...
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22.04.2007
A high-value money laundering trial in which Joyce Oyebanjo was convicted of laundering £1.4 million of public funds which had been earmarked for projects for the people of Plateau State...
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22.04.2007
A case involving a fraudulent stock broking firm. The three defendants posed as brokers for a non-existent firm called Gilberts. They sold shares at £3.50 each in a fictitious company.
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21.04.2007
The prosecution of a mother who fabricated an illness in her son from the age of 18 months to 5 years.
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17.04.2007
The final trial in a series of linked money-laundering prosecutions, the cases involved teams of freelance launderers and the proprietors of three different travel agencies in Halifax and Bradford. The...
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20.03.2007
The dual handed murder trial of a father and his 16 year old son. David Williams and Rufus D’Cruz acted for the father who spoke no English. The father was...
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09.02.2007
Alleged murder of vulnerable elderly man by younger man who had befriended him.
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08.02.2007
A murder trial in which the father of a 4 month old baby has been accused of murdering his son.
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05.02.2007
A corporate manslaughter trial in which an employee was killed in a tanker explosion while he was welding a petrol tanker at an industrial unit in West Thurrock. The explosion caused...
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08.01.2007
David Williams acted for a father who pleaded guilty to the murder of his 4 year old daughter and the attempted murder of his son.
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07.01.2007
David Williams acted for a company executive in this large multi-handed prosecution. The allegations revolved around the alleged use of an agency run by former police officers.
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01.01.2007
A double murder/life insurance fraud with three defendants (mother, father and their 14-year old Aspergers syndrome son). R2S (return to scene) computer technology was used for the first time to present...
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