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R v R – Modern Day Slavery at Aylesbury Crown Court – 2015

The client was accused of modern-day slavery offences against two foreign nationals including offences of holding a person in servitude, making threats to kill and subjecting them to violence.

Simon Kitchen of Drystone Chambers was instructed Counsel.

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R v RS – Conspiracy to assist in the unlawful immigration into the UK and Money Laundering at Lewes Crown Court – 2024

Andy Rootsey’s client (RS) was acquitted following a hard fought five-week Trial before the Lewes Crown Court in relation to an offence of conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration. Andy’s client was one of only two defendants to be acquitted in relation to the conspiracy.

R v LW – Confiscation at Harrow Crown Court – 2024

Grant represented LW in contested confiscation proceedings. The defendant had already pleaded guilty to conspiring to supply in excess of 300 kilos of cannabis and was now contesting a benefit figure asserted by the prosecution to be £549,115.12.

R v AB – Large Scale Drugs Conspiracy at Guildford Crown Court – 2024

Following a Trial lasting 17 days, Andy Rootsey's client, ‘AB’ was acquitted at Guildford Crown Court of conspiracy to supply cocaine on an industrial scale across the Southeast.

R v G Conspiracy to Steal at Warwick Crown Court – 2024

Andy was instructed to represent his client in a case involving a large-scale conspiracy to steal high value equipment from the BT Openreach company, at locations across the width and breadth of the UK, over a 10-month period.

R v R – 2024

Acting for the alleged head of an organised crime network supplying cocaine throughout the United Kingdom.

R v O – County Lines Supply of Class A Drugs at Norwich Crown Court – 2024

The client was alleged to be concerned in the large-scale supply of Class A drugs as the operator for a county drugs supply line covering the East Anglia area.