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R v CA – Chelmsford Crown Court
Stryders are currently instructed to represent a defendant charged with sexual assaults on two separate complainants at a party.
View Case R v FM – St Albans Crown Court
Stryders were instructed to represent a defendant charged with multiple counts of rape. This case was a ‘stranger rape’ case where the defendant was said to have given a lift to the complainant, to whom he was a complete stranger.
View Case R v SW – St Albans Crown Court
Stryders are currently instructed to represent a defendant charged with historic rapes.
View Case R v DW – St Albans Crown Court
Stryders were instructed to represent a defendant charged with historic sexual assaults. He was found not guilty following a trial.
View Case R v RG – St Albans Crown Court
Stryders were instructed to represent a nurse charged with sexual offences against a patient. He was found not guilty following a trial.
View Case R v CM – St Albans Crown Court
Stryders were instructed to represent a defendant charged with historic rapes, dating back to when he was a teenager. He was found not guilty following a trial.
View Case R v JW – Luton Crown Court
Stryders represented a female who was the first female in England & Wales to be prosecuted for controlling and coercive behaviour. The case concluded with guilty pleas, but the prosecution referred the sentence to the Attorney General to review on the basis that it was ‘unduly lenient’. The Court of Appeal refused to interfere with…
View Case R v BM – Luton Crown Court
Stryders were instructed to represent BM who was charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent and coercive and controlling behaviour. He was accused of seriously assaulting his partner by pushing her down the stairs, causing life threatening injuries. He was also accused of controlling her life by restricting which friends she could see, when she could…
View Case R v AS – Maidstone Crown Court
Stryders represented AS who was charged with coercive & controlling behaviour and non-fatal strangulation. AS had a previous conviction for controlling and coercive behaviour against his previous partner. However, in this case we were able to prove that the allegations were being made by his violent ex-partner who was using his previous conviction as a basis to…
View Case R v A – Chelmsford Crown Court
Stryders represented a female charged with being involved in a fraudulent internet site selling tickets for various exclusive sporting events. In many cases the customers paid for tickets which did not arrive.
View Case R v MW – St. Albans Crown Court
Stryders were instructed to represent a man charged with conspiracy to defraud insurance companies. The method of the fraud was ‘cash for crash’ where the defendants were said to have staged car accidents to generate claims for compensation for the insurance companies concerned. The charges were brought after a 2-year investigation by City of London police.
View Case R v VP – Leicester Crown Court
Stryders were instructed to represent a man charged with conspiracy to defraud numerous NHS Trusts in England and Wales. The case involved the loss of £12m and the evidence ran to tens of thousands of documents.
View Case R v AH – St. Albans Crown Court
Stryders were instructed to represent a man charged with conspiracy to defraud. The operation of the fraud involved the fraudulent opening of bank accounts which were then used to fraudulently obtain goods from retail outlets. AH received a significantly reduced sentence following a successful ‘newton hearing’ where we challenged the prosecution’s attribution of AH’s role within the…
View Case R v SL – St. Albans Crown Court
Stryders were instructed to represent a man charged with the fraudulent evasion of duty payable on cigarettes. After successful negotiation of pleas he avoided an immediate custodial sentence and confiscation proceedings.
View Case R v KS – Southwark Crown Court
Stryders are instructed to represent a man charged with the fraudulent evasion of duty payable on unprocessed tobacco, part-processed shisha, and shisha tobacco. This follows a lengthy investigation by HMRC, it being alleged that the tobacco was imported into the UK within shipping containers.
View Case R v KN – Luton Crown Court
Stryders were instructed to represent KN who was charged with drugs offences and conspiring to convert a firearm. The evidence was based upon messages sent over the ‘Encrochat’ network.
View Case R v RD – St. Albans Crown Court
Stryders were instructed to represent a man jointly charged with possession a firearm and live ammunition with intent to endanger life. The CPS accepted guilty pleas to simple possession of the firearm and ammunition on the first day of trial and the Judge was persuaded that exceptional circumstances existed which allowed him not to impose the…
View Case R v NC – Cambridge Crown Court
Stryders are instructed to represent a man charged with conspiracy to supply firearms. The prosecution allege that he is part of an organised crime group who have converted blank firing pistols into guns capable of firing live rounds of ammunition. The evidence suggests that the firearms have been supplied to major cities all over the…
View Case R v AH – Birmingham Crown Court
Stryders are instructed to represent a man charged with being part of an organised crime group which has laundered millions of pounds of cash generated through the supply of drugs and firearms. The case involves the use of Encrochat phones and relies upon significant surveillance evidence from NCA officers.
View Case R v MP – Snaresbrook Crown Court
Stryders are currently instructed to represent a defendant charged with supplying drugs across East London. We have successfully managed to secure his release from custody on bail and await a fully contested hearing.
View Case R v RK – Luton Crown Court
Stryders were instructed to represent a defendant charged with being concerned in the supply of class A drugs. The case alleged that the defendants had used Encrochat phones to enable them to undertake their criminal enterprise without detection. We applied to the Court for dismissal of the drugs charges based on a lack of evidence and…
View Case R v MO – Kingston Crown Court
Stryders were instructed to represent a defendant charged with conspiracy to supply class A drugs. The case involved the supply of over one hundred kilos of cocaine, 3.5 kilos of which were found within MO’s home address. MO was acquitted, by the jury, of all charges.
View Case R v MW – St. Albans Crown Court
Stryders were instructed to represent the defendant who was charged with conspiracy to supply class A drugs. His role within the conspiracy was to make concealed compartments within vehicles to allow an Organised Crime Group to transport drugs and cash without detection.
View Case R v JP – Reading Crown Court
Stryders were instructed to represent a man charged with others as being a group who offered a ‘Deliveroo for drugs’ throughout the South-East of England. The case involved thousands of pages of telephone evidence and undercover surveillance by Police Officers.
View Case R v SP – Kingston Crown Court
Stryders were instructed to represent a young female who was accused of being involved in the retention of criminal property on behalf of her boyfriend’s gang. Her boyfriend was a successful drill music artist, and the Police found £82,000 in cash and a watch worth £140,000 in a safe within her bedroom. The defendant was acquitted after…
View Case R v ROC – St. Albans Crown Court
Stryders were instructed by the defendant in a multi-handed drugs case based upon evidence obtained from the compromised ‘Encrochat’ platform. The defendant was acquitted following a submission of ‘no case to answer’. After careful analysis of the extensive telephone evidence the Judge agreed with the defence submission that the attribution of an ‘Encrochat’ phone to our client…
View Case R v GE – Cardiff Crown Court
Stryders were instructed to represent a man charged with kidnap, false imprisonment, and blackmail. The prosecution alleged that he was part of an organised crime group who kidnapped a man in Cardiff and falsely imprisoned him in a flat in Hertfordshire before making demands to third parties for ransom money to secure his release. South…
View Case R v AB – St Albans Crown Court
Stryders are currently instructed to represent a young man charged with attempted murder following the stabbing of his father. The issue in the case is self-defence in a domestic context.
View Case R v LC – St. Albans Crown Court
Stryders were instructed to represent a 26-year-old man who was charged with Attempted Murder following the discharge of a firearm at a pub in Stevenage on New Years Eve.
View Case R v NF – St. Albans Crown Court
Stryders were instructed to represent an elderly man charged with the Attempted Murder of his neighbour. The incident arose following a confrontation over a debt and the defendant was said to have taken a hammer and ‘Stanley’ blade to the scene. The victim was left with a 20cm wound from his left ear to his…
View Case R v JL – Basildon Crown Court
Stryders represented a man charged with Attempted Murder following an altercation at Billericay Train Station. The initial confrontation escalated to an incident where the victim was run down in a stolen vehicle. The case involved the examination of a significant amount of CCTV and raised difficult issues regarding joint enterprise.
View Case R v LB – Norwich Crown Court
Stryders are instructed told represent a young man from London charged with the Murder of another young man from London, both of whom were said to be in Norwich and belonged to rival County Lines gangs. The gangs are said to have been based in London but supplying drugs to local users in Norwich. The…
View Case R v S – Woolwich Crown Court
Stryders represented S who was accused of stock-piling various chemicals, firearms and their component parts in readiness for a right-wing terrorist attack, said to be in revenge to the Westminster and London Bridge atrocities. He was also said to be in possession of literature likely to be useful to someone planning an act of terrorism….
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R v W & Others – St. Albans Crown Court – Operation Klister
Stryders were instructed to represent W in relation to a ‘cash for crash’ fraud whereby car accidents were either induced or staged. The case involved 2 trials of 18 defendants following a 2 year investigation by the City of London Police. The loss to the insurance companies was estimated at around £1.2m. Jason Cross of…
View Case R v O & Others – Kingston Crown Court
Stryders represented ‘O’ who was charged with conspiring to supply over 1 tonne of cocaine.‘O’ had been arrested in July 2017 after the Police stopped a car containing over 80 kilos of cocaine and found a note leading them to search O’s home address. There they found 1 ½ kilos of cocaine in a wardrobe….
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R v C – Central Criminal Court
Stryders represented C who was one of 4 defendants accused of the murder of a man said to have been robbing the runners working for a gang who were supplying drugs in Romford. The deceased was stabbed 10 times to the chest and abdomen, 2 of the wounds being fatal. C was identified by witnesses…
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R v G – St. Albans Crown Court
G was jointly charged, along with two others, with murder. The deceased was a drug user and had purchased drugs from G and one of his co-defendants previously. Both G and his co-defendant accepted that they were drug dealers and the murder occurred when the deceased complained about the quality of drugs he had been…
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R v F – Luton Crown Court
Multi-handed allegation of Conspiracy to Commit GBH and various firearms offences. The case involved two distinct “gangs”, who over the course of an evening in July 2016 began attacking the vehicles and homes of one another. The matter escalated from damage to cars to the discharge of automatic weapons at residential addresses, during which a…
View Case R v E – Luton Crown Court
Stryders represented E who was jointly charged with manslaughter and also the possession and importation of unlicensed drugs. The two defendants had set up a clinic in Luton in order to assist people with substance dependencies and to assist them in curing addictions, they had imported a drug from the United States of America which…
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