Mark Graffius QC and Grace Forbes are defending a 23 year old man charged with conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life. The defendant and his cousin were shot in Salford. It was alleged that the defendant conspired with four others to murder the man who had shot […]
The defendant was charged with the murder of his mother during a Lockdown walk on Christmas Common. The deceased had been subjected to a brutal attack that had included blunt force trauma to the head, strangulation, and the removal of her eyeballs. The Defence maintained that the attack had occurred due to a catastrophic psychotic […]
Following the lifting of reporting restrictions, it can be reported that Mark Graffius QC, leading Gudrun Young, are defending a man, Richard Michael Hand, who is charged with murder and attempted murder at the Central Criminal Court. The defendant, known as Michael Hand, was charged with attempting to murder a man known to him for […]
Mark Graffius QC and Fiona Robertson secured a not guilty verdict for their client, Tomasz Lazdauskas, who was accused of beating the victim to death in his back garden in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. The prosecution alleged the murder was motivated by drunken, jealous rage after the victim had expressed a romantic interest in the defendant’s wife […]
Mark Graffius QC and Sophia Dower secure a Not Guilty verdict in historic murder trial at Chelmsford Crown Court. This was one of the first trials to successfully take place under the new Covid-19 safety measures implemented in the Crown Court. On 26 December 1998, Grant Byrom suffered a fatal stab wound to the heart […]
