Lewis MacDonald represented a defendant of good character charged with possession of indecent images of a child and extreme pornography. The material was found on the defendant’s phone, seized in August 2018, and he was interviewed in February 2019. The case file was then passed between the CPS and police with no further progress, with […]
Operation Clinical was a lengthy HMRC investigation into the illicit importation and distribution of millions of cigarettes into the UK by an Iraqi-Kurdish organised crime group. The cigarettes were smuggled into the UK by lorry amongst partially legitimate loads destined for British businesses. Once in the country, the cigarettes were ‘slaughtered’ at warehouses in the […]
Madeleine Price represented one of three defendants charged with conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration to a member state. The prosecution’s case was that the three defendants conspired with others unknown to affect the clandestine entry of non-UK nationals into France, thus facilitating the commission of breaches of French immigration law. The individuals were said to […]
On 3 May 2024, defendants were sentenced at Bristol Crown Court, having earlier pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiracy to defraud. The first defendant was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment; the second defendant 15 months. A co-conspirator faces proceedings in The Netherlands. Operation Jigsaw investigated a fraud perpetrated on thousands of cryptocurrency wallets held […]
Peter Lownds represented a man accused of involvement in a fraud in which it was alleged that dishonest misrepresentations were made to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and various relief charities to obtain free accommodation and financial support that had been made available to those who had been resident at Grenfell Tower at […]
