Brian McKenna
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Brian is an experienced criminal barrister who has handled cases including the most serious and complex criminal matters. He has prosecuted and defended in cases of:
• Murder,
• Manslaughter,
• Fraud (including DSS Fraud),
• Theft,
• Arson,
• Sexual offences (including sex with minors and paedophilia),
• Drugs
• Child cruelty
• People Trafficking
• The full range of public order offences.
Areas of Expertise:
Email: clerk@stjohnsbuildings.co.uk
Telephone: 0161 214 1500
Crime
Case examples:
Murder/Assault/Public Order
R v Herbert – Prosecution Junior on the murder of Sophie Lancaster (the so called “Goth Murder”). March 2007
R v McCrea – January 2007 – serious assault. Click Here for press coverage of this case.
R v Southern 2007 – Serious assault, domestic violence. Click Here for press coverage of this case.
R v Chadwick – March 2008. Click Here for press coverage of this case.
R v Ashworth – December 2008
R v Charnock – November 2009. Click Here for press coverage of this case.
Fraud/Theft
R v Greenhalgh 2007 – Prosecution of the so called “Artful Codgers”. Forgery of antiquities. Internationally reported case. Click Here for press coverage of this case.
R v Porter 2007
R v Mallu 2008 – credit card fraud on an international scale.
R v Patel 2008 – schoolboy running an extensive eBay fraud
R v Hayes 2009 – company checkbook fraud
R v Pilkington – theft from pensioners
R v Smith – conspiracy to steal. Click Here for press coverage of this case.
R v Lynch 2008 – DSS fraud
R v Bradshaw 2008 DSS Fraud. Click Here for press coverage of this case.
R v Kearsley 2009 DSS fraud
R v Bradshaw 2009 DSS fraud
Drugs
R v Wiggins 2008
R v Bentham 2008
R v Ahmed Noor 2008
R v Carrington 2009
R v Nixon 2009
R v Duncanson 2010
"Operation Marengo" 2008 Cultivation of Cannabis
R v White 2008
R v Valentine 2009
Prison Riots
R v Saleem
Arson
R v Cotton 2007 – defence junior – man accused of murder after dousing his flatmate in petrol and setting him alight.
R v Roughley – 2008. Click Here for press coverage of this case.
R v Collier 2009
R v Taylor 2010
Sexual Offences
R v Thorp – February 2008
R v Brooks – October 2008
R v Ball – November 2008
R v Aziz – January 2009
R v Jones - February 2009
R v Fletcher – April 2009
R v Meadwell – May 2009 – multiple rape of a girl under the age of 14.
R v Williams – July 2009
Child Cruelty
R v Vose 2009
R v Roberts 2009 – extensive burning to a baby with a hairdryer.
R v Downes 2009 – Attempted kidnap
People Trafficking
R v Bogdan 2008
R v Petrovics 2007