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Education

LLB Hons (King’s College London)
LLM (LSE)
Postgraduate Diploma in International Law
Commenced PhD programme in Public International Law at LSE

Practice

Criminal law. Has interest in International Law. During career has represented a number of defendants on murder charges, rapes and other serious sexual offences and offences of violence.

Leroy Redhead is associated with the following areas of expertise:

Crime
General Fraud
International Criminal Law

Cases

Crime

  • R v Brown – attempted murder of police officer by shooting.
  • R v M - attempted murder of police officer by shooting and armed robbery of banks and building societies.
  • R v C – allegation of a series of rapes. Defendant handicapped by severe learning difficulties and also suffers from Klinefelter’s syndrome. Victims also suffered from severe learning difficulties.
  • R v B – allegation of serious sexual abuse of defendant’s 3 year old daughter.
  • R v E – serious conspiracy allegation of issuing false British passports. Defendant was a civil servant.
  • R -v- Collyer - serious historical sexual abuse case, alleged victims were daughter and step-daughter of the defendant.
  • R -v- Sheppard - serious historical sexual abuse case, alleged victim was daughter of the defendant.
  • R –v- Langley – serious historical sexual abuse case, three victims all in foster care.
  • R –v- N – violent multi handed kidnapping, false imprisonment and robbery case.
  • R –v- W – series of street robberies of lone women where the defendant was masked and threatened victims with a large knife, stabbing one in the process.
  • R – McGregor – defendant accused of rape and grievous bodily harm of former partner.
  • R –v- Hunter – leading counsel in murder. Defendant an ex-boxer accused of killing a stag party goer in a hotel after an altercation.
  • R –v- Adams & Ors – multi million pound drug importation case
  • R-v- Sarkasian & Ors - one of 5 Russian nationals charged with kidnapping, blackmail and torture.
  • R –v- Cheperov & Ano – Leading counsel in blackmail and kidnapping case.
  • R -v- M Akhmotmov - Chechen National charged with blackmail and kidnapping.
  • R –v- Elian – serious sexual abuse of daughter and step daughter, conviction quashed in the Court of Appeal.
  • R –v- Tappe – rape of wife’s niece.
  • R –v- Farag & Ors– multi million pound importation of heroin from India, considered at its time the most valuable of cases of its type.
  • R –v- Howard & Ors – gang armed robbery of a post office.

Fraud and Financial Regulation

  • R v Lakhan – large scale mortgage, housing and benefit fraud.
  • R v Amusan – allegation of massive fraud involving great volume of false documents, such as hundreds of credit cards and several passports of different nationalities.
  • R –v- Majitha & Ors – multi-million pound MTiC fraud case.

Reported Cases

  • R -v- Short & Barclay 1997 2 Cr App R 383 – imprisonment of two Jurors for the refusal to deliver a verdict.
  • R -v- Jamie Wilson [2008] EWCA Crim 1754 - Court of Appeal ruling on the relevance of the evidence of a criminal intelligence analyst to the Crown's case.

Associated Work

Professional Memberships

  • Criminal Bar Association
  • Liberty
  • European Criminal Bar Association

Languages

German

Contact

T. 020 7067 1500

E. lredhead@25bedfordrow.com