Iain Goldrein QC

 CV – CRIME

 Examples of high profile cases securing regional or national interest are:

 Defence:

Most recent cases:

           Regina v Albattikhi - Murder

Regina v Morrison -  kidnapping- 

This case has now been successfully appealed and the conviction overturned. The case has now been sent for a re-trial.

           Regina v Wall -Murder lasted for 4 months - Not Guilty

• Natt: [Chester]: Major drugs importation involving complex issues of Human Rights Law.

• Bagulay  [Stafford]: Alleged major child paedophile ring.  Very substantial research done, with assistance of a child psychologist, into the mindset of the lead complainant [ a twelve year old].  Cross examination destroyed the effect of her evidence.  Acquittal of the Defendant [an uncle].  Much TV interest with legal rulings as to privacy.

• Abbey [Liverpool]: Very substantial drug importation lasting for a total of 3 months with mobile phone evidence and participating informer arguments.

• Lawson [Court of Appeal]: Alleged care home sex abuse 25 years before.  Acquittal on all counts.  This was one of the few cases to generate such an acquittal and involved the Court of Appeal for 2 days in a painstaking analysis of the detail of the evidence, together with a variety of legal approaches to overturn the verdicts at first instance.  This case was of national interest.  The relevant MP [chair of the Parliamentary Committee on the subject] was in court, and the courtroom had to be closed due to overcrowding.

• Mark Williams [Liverpool]: Killing of father and catastrophic brain damage to mother; which went as manslaughter of the father due to diminished responsibility.  The argument for manslaughter was not obvious and involved very detailed work and research into the medical issues with the relevant conferences.

• Warren [Mold]: Charge of murder of cohabitee.  3-4 week trial.  Defendant sole witness.  Very complex medical issues involving pathology, neuropathology, and neurosurgery.  Verdict of manslaughter [4 years].

Prosecutions:

• Shacklady [Secure court, Manchester]: Drugs and murder.  The Defendant was on of the UK’s leading drug barons.  One of the largest prosecutions conducted by Preston CPS.  Substantial number of protected witnesses; this was the first prosecution where Shacklady was convicted after not guilty pleas.  Very substantial documentation.  Intricate detail.  Vast PII implications.  Telephone evidence included latest research [Professor Jan Stuart] into use of radio masts to achieve identity of anonymous calls, and their location.  Complex ballistics evidence and forensic scientific evidence as to similarities of `packaging source.’ Trial lasted nearly 3 months in secure court at Manchester.  Convictions on all counts.  Nationwide news coverage.

• Jarvis [Preston]: The father who killed his wife and children because of a psychotic phobia over his wife’s smoking.  Complex psychiatric evidence inter-acting with neurological evidence vis-à-vis a previous head injury.  Need  for particular care in the handling of the surviving teenage daughter with child psychological and psychiatry very much to the fore.  Nationwide news coverage.
• Keays [Preston]: The man who burnt his girl friend to death in the back yard where there were no eyewitnesses.  Complex scientific evidence inter-acting with cross-examination of the Defendant.  Conviction for murder with nationwide news coverage.

• Ahmed [Liverpool]: Brutal murder of girl friend where diminished responsibility was unnecessary advanced in the face of very complex psychiatric evidence.

Further:

 ·        Experience of handling large teams of teamwork;

 ·        Particular practical expertise in:

(a) The Human Rights Act [on which he has published with Lord Clyde and Sir Patrick Elias];

(b) All aspects of medical expert evidence [psychology, psychiatry, neurosurgery, neuropathology, paediatrics – with relevance eg to infant death cases as well as murder, etc];

(c) Anything aeronautical/flying;

(d) Aspects of shipping;

(e) Confiscation and Proceeds of Crime.

• Appointed by the Department of Constitutional Affairs as a Consultee for the Criminal Procedure Review Committee.