Multi-handed allegation of Conspiracy to Commit GBH and various firearms offences. The case involved two distinct “gangs”, who over the course of an evening in July 2016 began attacking the vehicles and homes of one another.

The matter escalated from damage to cars to the discharge of automatic weapons at residential addresses, during which a member of the public was hit by a ricochet bullet. The police presented the case as two separate drugs gangs engaging in a turf war.

Counsel instructed were Timothy Kendall leading Thomas Daniel, both at 2 Bedford Row. James Bailey-Woodward was the solicitor with conduct.