Crime News

On 5th March 2018 at Southampton Crown Court the defendant was sentenced for rape and sexual abuse of two young children aged between 4 and 7. The abuse was filmed and shared on the dark web. The defendant pleaded guilty and after mitigation from Miss Mulvanny received a life sentence with a minimum tariff of 9 years. Read press coverage here  

Criminal News in Brief – March 2018 by Thomas Evans

5th March 2018

Criminal barrister Thomas Evans brings you the latest edition of Criminal News in Brief. Supreme Court Search and Seizure: a magistrates’ court is entitled to consider material which cannot be disclosed on public policy grounds when issuing search and seizure warrants under PACE 1984. Further, a closed procedure may be adopted by the Crown Court to enable the consideration of non-disclosable material when considering an inter partes application to retain unlawfully seized material (R (Haralambous)...

Insanity: A Defence of General Application by criminal barrister Elisabeth Bussey-Jones

5th March 2018

Criminal barrister Elisabeth Bussey-Jones analyses the case of Loake v Crown Prosecution Service [2017] EWCA (Admin) 2855, which dealt with a point of law as to the availability of ‘insanity’ as a defence to a charge which did not require the Crown to prove criminal intent. To read Elisabeth's analysis, click here.  

Webb v Chief Constable of Avon & Somerset Constabulary: An Overview

5th March 2018

Criminal barrister Graham Gilbert provides an analysis of Webb v Chief Constable of Avon & Somerset Constabulary and examines the attempt to define what “person for the time being in charge of the dog” may mean, in the context of a dog's Conditional Destruction Order (CDO). To view Graham's analysis, click here. Graham Gilbert's profile can be viewed here.

Criminal barristers Thomas Evans and Graham Gilbert provide overviews of the sentencing in the case of Black Cab rapist John Worboys and in the case of Jon Venables. To read their analyses, please click here. To view Thomas Evans' profile, follow this link. Graham Gilbert's profile can be found here.

Adam Norris and Berenice Mulvanny have lectured on Dishonesty after Ivey and Bad Character to local solicitors. Click here to view Berenice Mulvanny's profile. To arrange a seminar with our Crime team, contact Chambers Director Stuart Pringle.

Murder of Guy Hedger. Two men were jailed for life today (23 January) following convictions for murder after an eight week trial at Winchester Crown Court.  Seven members of the 3PB Crime Team were involved in this case – Nigel Lickley QC leading Jodie Mittell and Gemma White for the Prosecution, Adam Feest QC leading Nicholas Robinson for the first defendant, and Timothy Bradbury leading David Jenkins for the fourth defendant. The case involved the...

3PB Crime Barristers Jodie Mittell and Berenice Mulvanny in case involving European Campaign of Terror

24th January 2018

On Wednesday 24 January 2018 two defendants who had been extradited from The Netherlands were sentenced for their part in a blackmail conspiracy. The case stemmed from a campaign involving animal rights extremism. Amongst other tactics the activists used overnight attacks on homes in Europe including the use of incendiary explosive devices, paint stripper and graffiti. Evidence was obtained from a number of jurisdictions across Europe and the defendants were linked to some of the overnight attacks...

3PB Criminal barrister Thomas Acworth represented a defendant with a long history of mental instability, who threatened his father with a knife at the family home, caused over £25,000 worth of damage to his father’s property and threatened to carry out an acid attack on a friend’s sister. Read more about Thomas here. For more information about the case, please click here.

3PB Barrister Nicholas Cotter has successfully demonstrated before Lincoln Crown Court that his client was not responsible for causing the actual deaths of three residents arising from a breach of Health and Safety (non-employees) in a care home. The Care Home had on advice admitted security and risk assessment failures linked to its care of the three residents and was fined £70,000.

3PB's highly regarded crime practice has started the new year on a positive note by welcoming highly experienced criminal advocate Elisabeth Bussey-Jones to Chambers. Elisabeth undertakes cases which range from murder, large scale drug operations, multi-handed fraud and international money laundering cases, and cases of historic serious sexual offences, violence and gun crimes. She has been a Grade 4 prosecutor since 2007 and is on the Rape and Serious Sexual Offences Panel for the Western and...

3PB crime group barrister Miss Berenice Mulvanny has successfully defended a man accused of kidnap and sexual assault in Southampton Crown Court. The case revolved around the allegation that Eric Williams posed as a taxi driver outside a Southampton before touching his intoxicated victim in his car in the early hours of July 30. However, after nearly six hours, a jury found him not guilty of kidnap and sexual assault. Read press coverage from the...