It has been well documented that there have been hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse against the late Jimmy Saville and these have resulted in the police investigation "Operation Yewtree". Following this, we have seen the arrests of a number of "household names", such as Rolf Harris, Jim...
Farleys recently acted for a young man who faced a Crown Court trial for a single count of rape. He maintained from the outset that he had been asleep at the time of the alleged offence and he was able to provide details of previous partners with whom episodes of sexsomnia had occurred. We took...
Back in May of this year I wrote about the comments made by Richard Alderman, former Director of the Serious Fraud Office, in respect of how he saw the role of the Serious Fraud Office developing and the increase of the cyber world in the criminal fraternity. On the 4th October William Hague,...
It was widely reported over the weekend that 13 members of an organised crime ring spanning Lancashire, Merseyside and Cumbria had pleaded guilty to conspiring to supply drugs of classes A, B and C. They will be sentenced at a later date. What was not reported was that we represented a client...