Angus Bunyan

Angus Bunyan

Angus Bunyan

Angus is a specialist criminal advocate who both prosecutes and defends. A grade 4 prosecutor, he is regularly instructed by CPS Special Casework and the Central Fraud Group. He has particular experience of sensitive disclosure issues, Public Interest Immunity and RIPA. Recent high profile cases as a led junior include Operations Bluesky and Greensea (people smuggling) and Karnak (17 handed cannabis importation, ”it is possible to envisage even more serious crimes involving skunk cannabis, but so far they have not come before this court”, Moses LJ).

As a junior alone, he has recently prosecuted attempted murder, corruption in public office and money laundering.

Defence work ranges from representing individuals accused of rape to companies prosecuted by the MHRA. He has recently defended in a bonded warehouse diversion fraud.

Angus has developed regulatory experience, acting for the GSCC and the BSB before professional tribunals. He is currently instructed as junior counsel to the Environment Agency in a large scale illegal waste deposit case.

Notable Cases

Notable Cases
Case name R v Gun and others (Op Bluesky)
Appearance Prosecution Junior to Treasury Counsel
Category 10-handed human trafficking case
Detail Largest case of its type ever to be investigated by the Metropolitan Police. UK end of a pan-European network with thousands of beneficiaries over 10 years.
Case name R v Figueredo
Appearance Prosecution (instructed alone)
Category Corruption in public office
Detail Instructed by CPS Special Casework to prosecute Home Office Higher Executive Officer fraudulently granting citizenship over a period of years. First in a series of similar trials.
Case name R v Olawaye and others (Op Pauldings)
Appearance Defence Junior
Category Conspiracy to possess firearms
Detail Instructed by McCormacks in a long-running firearms conspiracy trial with ‘supergrass’ evidence called under SOCPA.
Case name R v Ozdemir
Appearance Prosecution Junior
Category Conspiracy to supply heroin
Detail 8-handed NCS investigation into a major Turkish heroin smuggling and distribution network.