Gudrun Young appeared at Southwark Crown Court yesterday to represent former Blue Peter Star John Leslie who is accused of groping a 30-year-old woman at a party in Soho, central London, in December 2008. Leslie was released him on unconditional bail and will return to Southwark crown court for trial on 16 March. He denies […]
Gudrun Young leading Sophia Dower were instructed to represent Mark Acklom at his trial before Bristol Crown Court where he faced 20 counts of fraud and money laundering offences. As a result of these allegations, Mr Acklom was named in the National Crime Agency’s “Top 10 Most Wanted List” which created what can only be […]
Defendant ‘JA’ was one of four youths accused of having attempted to murder an innocent passer-by in a street in Oxford. He was on his way home from the pub when he was approached by the group of four and asked if he had a cigarette. When he said no he was stabbed eleven times […]
The country’s first prosecution for “transgender hate crime” collapsed when District Judge Woolard sitting at Basildon Magistrates Court ruled that there was no case to answer at the close of the prosecution evidence. The complainant, Helen Islan, who works on behalf of the controversial charity Mermaids, alleged that the defendant was guilty of harassing her […]
Linda Bellos OBE, a leading feminist and anti-racist campaigner, represented by Gudrun Young, appeared today in Westminster Magistrates Court to be informed that the private prosecution against her had been taken over by the CPS and discontinued. Linda Bellos faced an offence of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour contrary to section 5 […]