Mark Heywood QC and Martin Liddiard have successfully represented the defence of a pensioner charged with murder and manslaughter following the death of her 81-year-old husband. Mavis Eccleston, 80, denied the charges and was found not guilty after a two-week trial at Stafford Crown Court. The prosecution alleged that Mr Eccleston, who had been diagnosed […]
Four counsel from No5 Barristers’ Chambers were involved in a murder trial following the shooting of Dwaine Junior Haughton in Wolverhampton. Four men were convicted of the killing after a six-week trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court in which Michael Burrows QC and Antonie Muller acted for the prosecution. Montell Gray, 22, of Springhill Road, Wolverhampton, […]
David Mason QC and Sarah Allen are acting for the prosecution in a murder trial in which they allege the victim was “unceremoniously dumped” and left to die on the doorstep of a house in Smethwick. Wolverhampton Crown Court has heard that 70-year-old Gurmukh Singh had been drinking with Palvinder Hayre, 51, one of three […]
Four advocates from No5 Barristers’ Chambers are involved in the trial of four men who face murder charges over the shooting of a 24-year-old man. Montell Gray, 22, of Springfield Road, Wednesfield, 23-year-old Seamus Williams, of Okemont Drive, Wednesfield, Dwaine Smith, 25, of Chainmakers Close, Bilston, and 22-year-old Kurrum Guild, from Oakthorpe Gardens, Tividale, all […]
Queen’s Counsel at No5 Barristers’ Chambers is acting for the prosecution in the trial of an inmate accused of attacking three prison guards and a fellow prisoner using makeshift weapons. Philip Bradley QC is involved in the trial of Aklakur Rahman, 32, who is accused of carrying out the attacks at prisons in Norfolk, Lincoln and […]
Jason Perrin has been involved in a presumption of death hearing after a Coventry man disappeared during a hiking holiday in Austria in 2012. Mr John Phillimore, a computer field engineer, booked an outward pursuit holiday with TUI UK, flying to Innsbruck Airport on September 15, 2012, to stay in Mayrhofen, Austria. However, he did […]
Barrister Bernard Thorogood led the prosecution as a company was fined £1.33 million after a woman was killed by debris blown off a building roof by Storm Doris in 2017. Tahnie Martin, 29, from Stafford, was hit by a wooden panel outside the Mander Shopping Centre in Wolverhampton. Ms Martin, who worked at the University […]
Two advocates from No5 Barristers’ Chambers are leading the prosecution in a murder trial over the stabbing of a student outside his Highgate college. Michael Burrows QC and Tom Schofield are prosecuting in the trial of a 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, at Birmingham Crown Court. Sixteen-year-old Sidali Mohamed was allegedly stabbed […]
Two QCs and a barrister from No5 Barristers’ Chambers have been involved in a murder trial which saw a man sentenced to a life term for shooting his estranged wife. David Mason QC and Earl Pinnock appeared for the prosecution in the trial of Andrew Hooper who shot Cheryl Hooper, 51, twice while she sat […]
Michael Duck QC, of No5 Barristers’ Chambers, is involved in a murder trial over the death of a 20-year-old who was stabbed during a fight in Nottingham. The Queen’s Counsel is representing one of five teenagers, who cannot be named for legal reasons, who deny murder and having an article with a blade or point. […]
Two QCs from No5 Barristers’ Chambers are facing each other in the courtroom in a murder trial over the death of a Shropshire mother. David Mason QC and Earl Pinnock are actingthe prosecution in the trial of Andrew Hooper who is accused of shooting his estranged wife, Cheryl Hooper, 51, twice while she sat in […]
A No5 barrister has seen a West Midlands police officer acquitted after he faced an assault charge following a high-speed chase. Sharon Bahia defended Pc Sunil Narr, 32 from Oldbury, at Birmingham Crown Court, who denied assault occasioning actual bodily harm. It took the jury one hour and 20 minutes to find him not guilty. […]