Daniel Jameson

Notable Cases

As Junior Counsel

Operation W – Central Criminal Court – Murder
The defendant, only 15 years old at the time, was accused of murdering another child. After a trial lasting four months, the defendant was found not guilty of murder and manslaughter.

Operation W – Central Criminal Court – Murder
Second defendant (of six) at a 10-week trial. The defendant was accused of murdering and kidnapping a man and kidnapping his girlfriend. It was said that the deceased was extensively tortured before his death and had over 90 separate injuries. A co-defendant in the case said that the second defendant was the person who killed the deceased (a clear cut-throat). The prosecution suggested that this was the work of an international crime group. The defendant was acquitted of murder.

Operation SD – Central Criminal Court – Murder
Represented a very young defendant who was said to have murdered a 17-year-old boy on a London bus and attempted to rob him shortly thereafter. The defendant, who had a previous conviction for possessing a bladed article, accepted carrying a large hunting knife at the time and on previous occasions. He admitted lying to the police pre-charge, initially claiming that the knife came from the deceased. The case involved a significant disclosure exercise, culminating in a successful section 8 application. The entire incident was captured on closed-circuit television and several eyewitnesses gave evidence during the trial, one of whom was subject to an anonymity order. The defendant was acquitted of murder and manslaughter.

Operation X – Central Criminal Court – Murder
Represented the defendant at a previous trial for murder where he was acquitted. When he was arrested for this matter, he wanted his representation to remain the same. Acquitted of murder after a four-week trial.

Operation I – Murder
Defendant was said to have murdered his stepfather alongside his mother, his mother’s new partner, his friend, and another defendant who cannot be identified.  The case against him involved phone evidence linking him to the events and, more significantly, confession evidence in which he stated he had ‘blood on his hands’. He was acquitted after a three-month trial.

Operation R – Central Criminal Court – Murder
Defendant charged with murder and attempted murder with four others arising from a series of attacks in Wood Green. The background of the offences is said to be the ongoing violence between rival gangs. The defendant was 16 years old at the time.

Operation R – Central Criminal Court – Murder
Defendant charged with murder of a youth, stabbed to death in central London. The deceased was said to have links to gangs where the offence was said to be the culmination of a series of reprisal offences.

Operation B – Central Criminal Court – Conspiracy to Murder
The defendant was charged with 3 counts of conspiracy to murder (contract killings). The targets were said to be members of rival organised crime groups.  The defendant was said to have conducted surveillance, sourced firearms and recruited others to the operation.  The case involved, speech and audio analysis, lip reading and linguist expert evidence.

Operation A – Central Criminal Court – Murder
The defendant was charged alongside five others. The defendant accused three of the other five defendants of committing the murder in this ‘cut-throat’ trial.

Operation S – Central Criminal Court – Murder
The defendant shot four times towards the deceased and his associates. The case involved the challenge of DNA evidence and substantial work on mobile phone attribution.

Operation S – Central Criminal Court – Murder
Represented a defendant charged with murder arising from an aggravated burglary of a cannabis factory.

Operation T – Central Criminal Court – Murder
Instructed as junior counsel for a very young defendant charged with murder. Police received a call from an eyewitness who told the operator that his friend had been stabbed in the stomach. Police attended and found the deceased.  The prosecution case was that the defendant murdered the deceased during a robbery arising from a drug deal.

Operation X – Murder
The defendant was accused of shooting the deceased with a sub-machine gun following an ongoing feud.

Operation A – Murder
Defendant charged alone. This was a very unusual case. The deceased was found without any visible injuries.  It involved evidence of numerous experts each dealing with the cause of death.

Operation N – Central Criminal Court – Murder
The case involved the shooting of a local man that had attempted to disrupt the drug dealing operation of the defendants.

Operation A – Murder
The defendant faced trial for an unprovoked random stabbing.

Operation S – Central Criminal Court – Murder
It was reported that the deceased was lying across the threshold of his flat.  When officers attempted to speak with the defendant, he barricaded himself into his flat and claimed to be armed with a firearm. There was visible blood staining on his hands, torso, clothing and trainers. When his flat was searched the lounge was found to be heavily blood stained with blood spatter on the walls and ceiling.

Operation V – Central Criminal Court – Manslaughter
Defendant charged with murder but faced trial for a ‘one-punch’ manslaughter, was said to have punched the complainant due his anger over the actions of the deceased a week before. Defendant acquitted after trial.

Central Criminal Court – Murder
A case involving a 16-year-old defendant at the Central Criminal Court, charged with beating a homeless man to death.

Operation H – Central Criminal Court – Preparation of Terrorist Acts
Before Mr Justice Baker. The defendant was said to have prepared to manufacture, with an intention to use, an explosive device of the type used at the Manchester Area bombing. A large part of evidence relied on drill-videos prepared by the defendant presenting a ‘terrorist’ persona.

An attempted murder trial involving the importation of significant quantities of cocaine. The issues centered on eyewitness and expert ballistic evidence.

An attempted murder trial requiring significant preparation and cross-examination of the prosecution’s blood spatter expert. The victim was stabbed 14 times.

As Sole or Leading Junior Counsel

Operation H – Central Criminal Court – Attempted Murder
The defendant was said to have discharged a lethal firearm at point blank range towards rival gang members while they were ordering food in a takeaway restaurant. The defendant accepted presence and firing the gun but maintained that he was not aiming at the men. This case that raised interesting issues, relating to gang membership, intent, and trajectories. The matter involved a contested application to vacate plea. Defendant acquitted.

Operation I – Central Criminal Court – Attempted Murder
The matter related to a gang shooting of a rival gang. Included evidence that the defendant posted a video to goad the other gang. The case involves significant bad character gang material and raised an interesting legal argument on the subject. The prosecution cannot prove who the ‘victim(s)’ of the attempted murder were. Defendant acquitted after trial.

Operation X – Central Criminal Court  – Attempted Murder
The defendant charged with attempted murder. This matter involved a sustained knife attack by the defendant upon his wife and their three young daughters (all under 12).

R v T – Central Criminal Court – Attempted Murder
This case involved what was said to be a gang attack, involving a brutal knife attack on a busy commuter train by the three co-defendants, using ‘Rambo’ knives. The complainant suffered numerous stab wounds such that he was said to be ‘very lucky to be alive’.

Operation S – Central Criminal Court
Represented the defendant in a trial lasting three months. The prosecution alleged that the first defendants were guilty of murdering one of their own associates by extending the doctrine of transferred malice. The defendant was said to have provided both an imitation and a live firearm to the gunmen. The defendants were said to have entered an opposing gang’s territory in a revenge attack, during which one of their number was killed.

Represented the first defendant in a seven-handed, four-week cut-throat trial, charged with section 18 GBH and possession of firearms and ammunition.

Represented the first defendant in a five-week trial involving the supply of firearms. The defendant was charged with possession of firearms with intent to endanger life.

Represented the first defendant charged with conspiracy to cause explosions.

Notable Cases

Led by King’s Counsel in Operation Hornet (HBOS), a high-profile trial lasting five and a half months, prosecuting directors at HBOS and others in connection with corruption linked to the Impaired Assets Division over a four-year period. The case involved a loss of over £250 million. Represented the defendant at sentencing due to leading counsel’s unavailability.

Instructed as led junior in a multi-million-pound fraud and money laundering case involving issues of criminality in foreign jurisdictions, centered around complex company structures.

Instructed as led junior to represent a solicitor charged with mortgage fraud in a two-month trial in Birmingham.

Led junior for the second defendant in the heavily reported, three-month ‘Traveller slavery trial’, defending in the first prosecution for slavery in the UK since the early 19th century.