Mark Robinson, of the Garden Court Chambers Crime Team, was instructed by Denise Wilson-Osuide from ITN Solicitors.
The client was unanimously acquitted of attempted murder after a 3-day trial at the Inner London Crown Court.
The defendant, who had pleaded to wounding with intent, seriously assaulted an elderly man, by stamping on the victim’s head, resulting in irreversible brain damage. The prosecution argued that the defendant formed the intention to kill.
Mark relied upon expert evidence from a pathologist which stated that the injuries occurred as a result of the victim falling on the floor, not from the stamping. The pathologist said impacts from stamping, whilst appearing to be extremely damaging, are less likely to cause lethal brain injury, because of the limited rotational movement of the brain.
Mark also relied upon CCTV evidence which showed the defendant and his partner returning to the scene thirty minutes after the attack in a calm manner, and submitted that the defendant’s calm demeanour, and the fact that he returned to the scene, were not the actions of somebody with murderous intent.
Mark Robinson was instructed by Mrs Denise Wilson-Osuide from ITN Solicitors.
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