Recent Cases

R v B

In this case B was charged with an armed street robbery whereby he had allegedly threatened two men with a CS gas canister. The police considered B had been positively identified by one of the victims of the robbery during a street identification procedure. The police also relied upon the discovery of a firearm in close proximity to the location of B’s arrest. B had two co-defendants who implicated him in the robbery.

Whilst representing B at the police station we were sceptical as to the quality of the identification evidence and advised B to exercise his right to silence during the course of the police interview. B was later charged with the offence which carries a potential maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

At court we succeeded in applying for the charges to be dismissed. The purported identification was found to be seriously flawed leaving only weak circumstantial evidence, namely, the firearm in the area of the defendant’s arrest.