Rebecca Randall

Barrister

All areas of criminal defence including murder, violence, sexual offences, robbery, dishonesty and drug offences. Experienced in all criminal courts, including Court of Appeal.

Rebecca is regularly instructed in cases concerning complex questions of law with many thousands of pages of served evidence, as well as Unused evidence. She is familiar with having to marshal and organise, and adept at doing so. These cases involve fraud, conspiracy to supply drugs and ammunition, violence and money laundering.

Associated Work

Finalist in the Gray's Inn Mooting Competition and represented Gray's Inn at the Inter-Inn Mooting competition Winner of the College of Law Advocacy competition.

Professional Memberships

Criminal Bar Association
The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn
South Eastern Circuit

Reported Notable Cases

R v Yaryare and Hassan [2019] EWCA Crim 78
Attorney-General's Ref (No. 34 of 2015) [2015] EWCA Crim 1152
R v Townsend [2013] EWCA Crim 771
R v W [2013] 2 Cr.App.R (S) 87

Murder & Serious Violence

R v G - Murder. Led junior for first defendant in fatal car jacking.
R v N - Murder. Led junior in a five-handed execution-style shooting of a doorman who had allegedly disrespected gang members.
R v T - Murder. Led junior in re-trial in case where there was no body and complex legal issues.
R v M - Murder. Led junior, stabbing of neighbour.
R v J - Junior alone for first defendant in a 9 defendant kidnap and blackmail case.
R v G - Attempted murder. Defendant repeatedly stabbed his partner, in front of their two young children.
R v D - Attempted murder.Couple repeatedly stabbed in their own bedroom. Defendant found not fit to plead.
R v H - Violent disorder and attempted murder. Leading junior. Large scale violence in Leicester City Centre, 23 defendants.
R v C - Assisting murder. Arose out of notorious shooting of a young woman, sheltered the defendants for 24 hours.
R v G - Aggravated burglary and s.18. Drug related aggravated burglary, complainant stabbed in front of family.
R v C - Violent disorder. Complainant left with bleed on the brain and knife wounds after confronting youths outside her home address. Extremely vulnerable 16 year old defendant who was 6 months pregnant during trial.
R v W - Preventing the lawful and decent burial of a body. Highly unusual case where defendant's father died and was left to decompose in a small bedroom. The body was discovered only after the smell became overpowering and the defendant was running a drugs business from the address.
R v K - Child cruelty case. Three month old baby suffered serious injuries, including a bleed on the brain and permanent epilepsy. Large amounts of complex medical evidence. Pleaded guilty on a basis and received a non-custodial sentence.
R v Braithwaite - Aggravated burglary and firearms. Gang attempting to rob a cannabis factory mistakenly went to wrong address and ended up gagging and binding a Southampton University student.
R v Mersini - Firearms. Defendant on Peterborough police "Most Wanted" list
R v Khan- Kidnap and false imprisonment. Trial at CCC involving gang abducting acquaintance off the street and holding him hostage for several days. Acquitted of kidnap.
R v Kohti – the 77 year old defendant was charged under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 with neglecting his 83 year old wife who suffered from Alzheimers. The case involved complex and unusual law and submissions. The case was stopped at half time and not guilty verdicts entered.
R v Bibi (& Others) - Counsel for the mother in a case involving the long term emotional and physical of a young Pakistani woman after her arranged marriage. This case attracted substantial national and local media coverage.

Drugs & Organised Crime

R v R - Firearms factory. Only defendant to be acquitted of all charges.
R v H - Conspiracy to supply cocaine. 9 defendants, supply of cocaine between Derby and Chesterfield.
R v M - Conspiracy to produce and supply industrial amounts of cannabis.
R v R - 20 defendants money laundering.
R v Mansaram - Supply and production of class A drugs. Led junior.
R v Major - Money Laundering.
R v DiCaprio - Fraud. Hearing impaired client accused of de-frauding another hearing impaired couple by procuring surrogate babies for them from Kenya. The case generated large amounts of media interest.
R v Jacobs - Supply of Class A drugs. At CCC, hung jury at the second trial, prosecution did not proceed.
R v Cuong Vu (& Others) - Led Junior in a multi handed kidnapping, blackmail and cultivation of cannabis case.
R v Edwards (& Others) - Led Junior in multi handed importation of cannabis case.

Sexual Offences

R v M - 8 defendant gang rape. Defendants and complainant all aged 14/15 years old. All defendants acquitted of all charges.
R v I - Rape, sexual assault, false imprisonment. Client had previously been convicted of two stranger rapes, both of which went before the jury. Acquitted of all charges apart from sexual assault.
R v J - Rape. Defendant previously served 11 years for a stranger rape. Acquitted.
R v M - Historic sexual abuse case against step-daughter. Acquitted of all charges.
R v P - Rape. Acquitted of a campaign of marital rape.
R v R - Male model acquitted of drugging a woman in order to rape her.
R v Y - Social worker charged with possession of indecent images. The defence of legitimate reason was put forward, case stopped at half time.
R v S - Historic sexual abuse and rape of young boys. Case involves large amounts of third party disclosure and PII, client has mental issues. Acquitted of all charges.
R v S - Historic sexual and physical abuse against 4 step-children dating back 20 years. There had already been one aborted investigation and involved huge amounts of PII and third party disclosure.
R v N - Sexual assault. Defendant with severe mental health difficulties charged with the sexual assault of a boy with Down’s Syndrome.
R v B - Rape. Defendant was deaf and had learning difficulties, charged with numerous rapes of a 15 year old. The Crown accepted pleas, on a basis, to sexual activity with a child and defendant received a suspended sentence.
R v B - the same defendant as above, this time charged with sexual assault. The matter went to trial and involved cross-examination of witnesses who were also deaf through several BSL interpreters.
R v Y - Young defendant charged with the rape and sexual assault of all three of his sisters over 10 years. The case is complicated further by the fact that the defendant’s father is currently serving an IPP for the rape of one of the complainants, his daughter.

Proceeds of Crime Act

R v Hutchinson and Dale - Led Junior in a case where the defendant had allegedly claimed over £2 million worth of fraudulent benefit payments, hijacking over 60 different identities. The confiscation hearing was listed for ten days with the prosecution initially claiming £1.85 million from each defendant. The case was concluded when the prosecution accepted a benefit figure of £100k from each defendant.
R v Lau - Led Junior in a confiscation case where the Crown were claiming over £1million. Settlement was reached before the hearing for £75,000.

R v Jenkins - Currently instructed as leading junior in a 7 handed money laundering case. The case involves the handling of over £2 million worth of plant machinery, with the prosecution alleging that the defendant was involved with receiving and converting over £1.5 million through various bank accounts. At the moment the evidence numbers over 20,000 pages including huge amounts of banking and accounting documents as well as phone records.
R v Hughes - First defendant in a multi-handed conspiracy to supply cocaine – junior alone. The evidence consisted of huge amounts of phone data, ANPR, banking data and surveillance which all had to be carefully considered by the defence (total pages 15,000 plus).
R v Hutchinson - Led junior in confiscation. The client had been found guilty of benefit fraud to the sum of over £2 million by faking 250 plus identities. The financial investigator’s statement alone was 500 pages and the evidence was over 50,000 pages. The prosecution were initially pursuing over £2 million in assets from each defendant but the eventual agreed sum was just over £100k.
R v Hassan - Leading junior in an attempted murder and violent disorder case. There were 22 defendants over three different trials. The evidence was voluminous and consisted of ANPR, phone records and identification. On the third day of trial the defence were served with the officer’s working notebooks which consisted of over 5,000 pages. Every single page of the notebooks needed to be considered in order to establish her route to identifying the defendant. There were over 15,000 pages of evidence. Leave to appeal the conviction has been obtained on the grounds that the process of identification was flawed and it is thought that the Court of Appeal case will lay down new rules in relation to identification evidence.
R v Richards - A 20 defendant money laundering case and VAT fraud. Whilst the defendant played a relatively minor role the evidence had to be carefully examined to establish this. The case consisted of over 35,000 pages of evidence.