Jury returns verdict of Unlawful Killing. Harewood Law represented the family of Gracie Spinks after her tragic death at the Article 2 Jury Inquest, at Chesterfield Coroners Court. This inquest received unprecedented national press coverage. The Jury returned a verdict of Unlawful Killing, finding multiple accepted police failings and missed opportunities by Derbyshire Constabulary. The […]
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Jury returns Not Guilty.. Harewood Law represented a client charged with Conspiracy to Supply 2000kg of cocaine, worth 83 million who was found Not Guilty. The CPS alleged that over a two-year period, two thousand kilograms of cocaine with a street value of eighty-three million pounds were imported from Portugal, Netherlands and secreted in large […]
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4 month trial in 2024 Jury acquits defendant. The client was accused of misleading investors and introducing them to a fraudulently operated investment company. The prosecution case was that investors had approached the client as the client and his associates had been involved in trading at the London Stock Exchange. They were all connected to […]
Defendant acquitted of serious and large scale violent disorder. The defendant was the only one of fourteen defendants acquitted of a large-scale violent disorder. The allegation was of an ongoing feud between two groups, which had continued for years. The defendant was represented by Sajad Chaudhury of Harewood Law and counsel George Hazel-Owram of St […]
Bradford Crown Court Acquittal. The police conducted a surveillance operation on several individuals involved in the Supply of Class A drugs. It was said by the prosecution that the defendant was part of this group and allowed her address to be used as a safe house for Kilos of Cocaine. The defendant denied this and […]
Bradford Crown Court Acquittal. This was a large-scale National Crime Agency (NCA) surveillance operation. Class A drugs were being imported into London and distributed across the UK. Vehicles were followed from the distribution centre in London and stopped at various locations with Kilos of cocaine. The police raided addresses across the UK. The defendant from […]
Bradford Crown Court Case Withdrawn. The defendant an experienced psychiatrist who owned various companies providing psychiatric services across the UK was said to have fabricated reports, impersonated doctors and conducted medical examinations for years beyond his medical qualifications. It was said also that the defendant had provided reports for years which were copied and pasted […]
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Bradford Crown Court Acquittal. Senior Bank employee was charged with orchestrating a complex fraud from within banking systems, moving money from customer accounts and then laundering the money via external accounts controlled by his associates. The bank served expert reports suggesting only this defendant had the level of access to commit this fraud. Defence experts […]
Bradford Crown Court Acquitted. This was the distressing case, of the baby that was thrown out of the 6th Floor of an apartment block. A very difficult case which was widely reported across the media. In an unusual step we were allowed to make a press appeal for witnesses. The defence deployed multiple psychiatric reports from […]
Bradford Crown Court Acquitted. After an ongoing feud, between two gangs, one group had approached the defendant’s family address with firearms and discharged the same. A big disorder took place, one of the males who had attended with many others had been fatally wounded and died at the scene from stab wounds. All five siblings […]
Bradford Crown Court Acquitted. The defendant was one of a number of defendants who had gained entry into an address known to them, all had been aware the prosecution said, that there was someone in one of the bedrooms upstairs, this was why they had set fire to the property causing the death of the […]
Leeds Crown Court. Acquitted. A large group of defendants were said to have attacked a rival gang with weapons, resulting in a male being stabbed to death. It was unclear who had delivered the final wounds to the deceased as there was a large-scale disorder. The defendant denied the matter and after a trial he […]
Manchester Crown Court The only defendant to be Acquitted. The defendant was said to be part of an Organised Crime Group, it was said that there was a debt owed to them by an individual in prison of over one million pounds for drugs purchased. The debt was outstanding, and his family were kidnapped, and a […]
Manchester Crown Court Defendant Acquitted of Gangland Murder. The defendant was charged with several others, all said to be part of an Organised Crime Group (OCG), involved in the supply and importation of Class A drugs. The prosecution case was, that there was an ongoing gangland feud between two groups both heavily armed, involving multiple shootings and […]
Conspiring to Commit Terrorism Sheffield Crown Court – NOT GUILTY We were involved in one of the highest profile terrorist cases in the UK. Our client appeared in the international news and on the front page of many newspapers for a number of years. The allegation was that he, along with others, had conspired to cause explosions […]
Defence teams positive engagement with the opposition, in a terrorism trial Results in a just outcome The prosecution offered no evidence at trial, in a case where Harewood Law’s client was charged with two counts of encouraging terrorism contrary to section 1 Terrorism Act 2006. It transpired that their client was a young man whose […]
Leeds Crown Court Acquittal This case began in 2016, a lengthy and complex investigation of an accountant who had been employed by a national firm. The accountant had set up a complex web which involved multiple companies, various banks and resulted in just short of a million pounds being redirected to various different bank accounts, […]
To import and supply drugs, firearms and money laundering Luton Crown Court International conspiracies to import and supply drugs, firearms and money laundering Harewood Law acted for a principal defendant in a case concerning international drugs conspiracies to import and supply class A and B drugs, associated money laundering, and possession of prohibited firearms and […]
Being in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) Articles 10 and 11 Prosecution withdraw case (R v S 2021) Breach of Corona Virus Regulations by organising demonstrations in a lockdown. This was a high profile case that received a lot of press coverage as the defendant was said to be the leader of […]
By the family of Gracie Spinks (a victim of stalking) To deal with her Inquest Gracie Spinks This case has attracted wide spread media attention the family have featured on Sky news, BBC, ITV and all national newspapers. The police have referred themselves to the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) and an inquest will […]
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Loughborough Crown Court Defendant found Not Guilty Harewood Law were instructed to represent one of the principal defendants in an ongoing feud between two families from the Birmingham Area. There was a history of violence including men being mown down by cars and a man stabbed to death. Eight defendants were tried for murder. The […]
Defendant Acquitted after trial Bradford Crown Court 2023 Defendant faced historic, serious sexual allegations. The allegations were all denied. The matter proceeded to trial, all the evidence was put before the jury. The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty to all counts on the indictment. Harewood Law instructed Chloe Hudson of New Park Court […]
Intentional Strangulation and Threats to Kill Jury acquits defendant Multiple serious allegations made against the defendant, including intentional strangulation, an axe placed across the neck, and serious threats to kill. Defendant denied the offences, a trial took place before Leeds Crown Court and the defendant was Acquitted by the jury after trial. […]
Money Laundering and Drugs Supply Case withdrawn before trial start Large scale drugs operation, involving multiple defendants supplying class A drugs across the Midlands. Hundreds of thousands moving across various bank accounts and large sums of cash seized from various locations. The case against the defendant was that money was laundered for the entire group. […]
