Case Studies
Organised Crime
R –v- B & others [2006]
This was a case where our client initially faced an allegation of conspiracy to blackmail and possess firearms. Other defendants faced additional allegations. The prosecution alleged that all the defendants were members of a highly organised criminal gang that terrorised the Turkish community in North London. It was said that all the defendants were enforcers for the main defendant who was said to be the largest heroin smuggler in Western Europe.
This case involved significant use of covert surveillance by the police which generated a vast amount of material to be viewed, a large amount of which was in the defendants’ native languages.
