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.
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.
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.
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.
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.