SERIOUS VIOLENCE

Dan is currently instructed in two cases alleging serious violence. He has both prosecuted and defended in a number of cases including:

GBH with Intent following kidnap and torture of a rival drug dealer.

Armed Robbery of Firearms at a private house. Victims were mother and children. Additional allegation following a shooting incident and a search of the house at which it occurred leading to charges relating to drugs and firearms offences.

Multi-handed gang violence.  Allegations included shooting offences, kidnap and serious violence towards rival drug family. Case involved large amount of unused material and detailed disclosure disputes.

Represented the first Defendant in a widely reported case concerning the keeping of and violence towards a “domestic slave”.  The victim was vulnerable, kept in a garage, beaten and regularly abused.  Case received national attention resulting in an AG reference which Dan successfully opposed (the then AG doing the appeal himself).

Leading junior counsel in case alleging “triad” kidnap, torture and extortion.  One of the victims was raped, the other tortured (including a saw being used to remove part of his leg), whilst money which was said to be owed was extorted from a family in China.

Prison inmates in allegation of attempted murder on a fellow inmate in retaliation for assisting the police.

Case involving armed robbery where it was alleged that firearms where discharged and hostages taken.

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