Drugs, Firearms and Kidnap

We frequently deal with cases involving drugs supply and investigations by the Serious and Organised Crime Agency. We have a breadth of experience in dealing with huge importations, allegations of conspiracy and evidence obtained through the use of surveillance techniques. We handle all types of serious and organised crime, including all firearms offences and allegations investigated by Operation Trident.

Related Cases

R v Wyatt Anderson &  Others

The defendant was the pilot in a gang of upmarket people smugglers caught landing Turkish Nationals in secluded airfields in Kent.

R v Watson and others

Our client was the first of four defendants on the indictment in a trial involving allegations of pre-planned robberies of petrol filling stations using a firearm. Our client was acquitted following the trial.

R v Tindling

This case involved the seizure of 124kg of cocaine at 100 per cent purity.  There was evidence in the case of the drugs being sourced from Guyana.

R v Ruiz Henao

In this case the firm acted for a number of defendants in a multi-million pound 'Columbian drug baron' case which received extensive media coverage. Police alleged that at the time of the offence that one of our clients was the biggest cocaine dealer in the United Kingdom. The case involved covert and intrusive surveillance, extensive financial documentation relevant to criminal lifestyle and money laundering, and complex confiscation proceedings.

R v Robinson

This was an allegation involving gunpoint threats to two women, a kidnap and the linked possession of an arsenal of firearms in London some months later. The police investigation was challenged at trial and our client was ultimately acquitted.

R v Range

We represented the first defendant in this conspiracy to import Class A drugs in which seven other people were also charged.  The allegation was of an international conspiracy, of which our client was said to be the ring leader, to import over 6 kilos of cocaine at 100 per cent purity from the Carribean into the United Kingdom.

R v Powell and others

The firm represented six out of eight defendants charged with a significant conspiracy to supply Class A drugs from an address in North London.  The case involved a three month intensive surveillance operation by the police during the course of which one of the defendants was shot.

R v Miller

Our client was arrested following the seizure of a significant quantity of heroin recovered from the boot of a car she was driving following an investigation by the Serious and Organised Crime Agency.  She was acquitted after trial in which she maintained she had no knowledge of the presence of the drugs in the car.

R v Logan

One of the largest ever money laundering and drugs supply investigations involving a number of separate police operations. The money laundering side of the investigation involved the distribution of millions of pounds worth of high value Euro notes. The drugs supply involved over 85 separate multi-kilo importations of class A drugs. Kirsty Monighan was junior counsel in the case ensuring continuity of representation by the firm for the duration of the case.

R v Le Brun

Our firm acted for one of the defendants in an international conspiracy to import a large amount of cocaine from South America, via the USA and into the United Kingdom.  Our client sailed a boat containing the drugs across the Atlantic before being arrested as he came ashore on the Isle of Wight.

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