Notable Cases
R v TJ and PJ [Newcastle Crown Court, 2024] – led by David Brooke KC, prosecuting murder.
Operation Cord [Durham Crown Court, 2023] – prosecuted a conspiracy to kidnap.
R v SR [Newcastle Crown Court, 2023] – led junior prosecuting a purported financial advisor for defrauding people out of their pension savings.
R v JA [Sheffield Crown Court, 2023] – defended a man accused of multiple sexual offences against four female family members.
Operation Canyon [Sheffield Crown Court, 2022-23] – led junior prosecuting a conspiracy involving prison inmates, a prison nurse, and associates outside the prison, to convey drugs and other contraband into the prison, sell it to other inmates, and launder the proceeds.
R v HH [Leeds Crown Court, 2022] – defended a vulnerable asylum seeker charged with rape of two teenage girls.
Operation Fergus [Newcastle Crown Court, 2022] – prosecuted a conspiracy relating to the discharge of a firearm on a residential street in Newcastle.
R v AF [York Crown Court, August 2021] – prosecuted a rape committed in 1997 by the defendant upon his adult daughter.
Operation Homestead [Manchester Crown Court, 2021] – leading junior prosecuting a ‘county lines’ conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, using a ‘dealer line’, from Manchester to York.
Operation Thunderstorm [York Crown Court, 2021] – prosecuted a conspiracy to supply Class A drugs using a ‘dealer line’.
R v Nicholson & ors [Sheffield Crown Court, February 2021] – led junior prosecuting the murder of a vulnerable man.
R v WA [Teesside Crown Court, December 2020] – prosecuted offences arising out of a 20-year abusive relationship, including assaults, rape, and controlling or coercive behaviour.
Operation Salmon [Teesside Crown Court, 2020] – prosecuted a conspiracy to steal Range Rovers by hacking key signals.
Operation Sparegill [Bradford Crown Court, 2019] – led junior prosecuting conspiracy to supply Class A drugs using a ‘dealer line’ in the Bradford area.
Operation Seabrook [Teesside Crown Court, 2018-19] – led junior prosecuting 7 ex-prison officers from Medomsley Detention Centre, for offences of misconduct in a public office committed in the 1970s and 1980s.
R v CA & CW [Sheffield Crown Court, November 2017] – led junior prosecuting an offence of causing or allowing serious physical harm to a child (non-fatal ‘baby shaking’)
Operation Claudius/Operation Nassau [Newcastle Crown Court, 2017] – led junior prosecuting conspiracy to supply class A drugs.
R v Kamran Afshar [Teesside Crown Court, November 2016] – prosecuted a defendant under section 45 of the Serious Crime Act 2007, for trying to recruit a vulnerable asylum seeker to set fire to the home of the defendant’s ex-wife and children.
R v Paul Jonathan Wright & Ors (Operation Nacho) [Newcastle Crown Court, June 2016] – led by John Elvidge QC prosecuting conspiracy to commit fraud in a “cash for crash” case.
R v Brian Thexton & Ors (Operation Pearl) [Newcastle Crown Court, various trials in 2015] – led by Christine Egerton prosecuting conspiracy to commit tie-up armed robberies of homes in rural areas in the North East.
R v Timothy Lister & Ors (Operation Skyhawk) [Teesside Crown Court, June 2014] – led by Adrian Strong prosecuting conspiracy to supply cocaine. Dealt with subsequent POCA proceedings.
R v Cully and Grant [Sheffield Crown Court, February 2014] – led by Tina Dempster prosecuting two care home workers for the ill-treatment of elderly dementia patients in their care.
R v Susan Clark & Ors [Leeds Crown Court, March 2013] defended in a multi-handed high-value fraud case.
R v Austwick and Sorby [Leeds Crown Court, July 2012] defended in a high-vlaue handling stolen goods case involving vehicles stolen in a string of dwelling-house burglaries.
R v Henson and Sawdon [Hull Crown Court, May 2011] led by Andrew Robertson QC in a case involving the sexual abuse of very young children.