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23.08.23
The tragic case of Andrew Malkinson
It is beyond contention that in the early hours of the morning on 9 July 2003 a young woman ‘C’ was brutally attacked and raped during which she sustained serious injury including the severance of her nipple. She gave a description of her attacker whom she said she had scratched down the face with her…
Read more23.02.21
Sexual assault convictions quashed in CCRC’s 750th case
The Court of Appeal has quashed Ahmed Mohammed’s two 2004 convictions for indecent assault. The case (Mohammed v R. [2021] EWCA Crim 201) had been referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC). At the time of the alleged offences the Appellant was just 18 years old and suffering from…
Read more5.10.20
CCRC refers its 750th case to the Court of Appeal
Brett Wilson client Ahmed Mohammed has had his case referred by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) to the Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal will now consider an appeal against a conviction for sexual offences that followed a trial at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court in 2004. This referral is the 750th case to be…
Read more29.06.18
An expectation of privacy in a spent conviction? XKF provides some practical guidance
In the case of XKF v BBC [2018] EWHC 1560 (QB), Mrs Justice Elisabeth Laing granted a privacy injunction to a former police officer, anonymised in these proceedings as XKF, to prevent the BBC from broadcasting film footage of him recorded at or near his home on 13 March 2018. Facts In July 2003, XKF…
Read more22.04.16
Footballer's rape conviction quashed; retrial ordered in sexual offence case
The Court of Appeal yesterday quashed Ched Evans’s rape conviction, but ruled that he will face a retrial. The 27 year old Welsh footballer was jailed in 2012 after having being found guilty of raping a 19 year old woman at a Premier Inn near Rhyl, Denbighshire in May 2011. Mr Evans, who has always maintained his innocence,…
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