Faith Osifo, a crime specialist pupil at Garden Court Chambers, was instructed by Denise Wilson-Osuide of ITN Solicitors.
Faith represented, RH, who was charged with a robbery alleged to involve nine other suspects.
The Crown’s case against RH rested solely on alleged identification evidence from a police officer who had reviewed CCTV footage of the incident, along with custody imaging in the police database. However, detailed analysis of the evidence revealed multiple breaches of Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) Code D a code of practice for the exercise by police of statutory powers to identify persons. This indicated that the Crown’s case was procedurally and evidentially flawed.
Faith prepared and served a comprehensive application to dismiss and, following a review of the case, the Crown offered no evidence against RH.
