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 Wales Police described the case as “one of the UK’s most complicated kidnap investigations in recent times”. GE was found not guilty of all charges by the jury at the end of a 3-month trial.
