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James Thacker has been appointed as a Senior in Hall by the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn

James Thacker has been appointed as a Senior in Hall by the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn. The appointment, which will be for five years, will commence on 1st January 2018.

Serial West London attacker convicted

Following a two week trial at Isleworth Crown Court, Philip Ogun, who attacked 8 different females on 3 separate days in and around the Shepherds Bush and Ravenscourt Park areas of West London was convicted on Friday 30th June 2017 of 20…

7 tobacco smugglers successfully prosecuted and sentenced to immediate terms of imprisonment

James Thacker led Frederick Hookway (of 2 Harcourt Buildings) at Maidstone Crown Court in a HMRC fraudulent evasion of duty upon tobacco case. A total of 742.5kg of hand rolling tobacco was smuggled into the UK with the assistance of a HGV…

Fine Wine Fraudsters convicted

Following a four week trial at Southwark Crown Court, Thomas Hole was convicted of Conspiracy to Defraud. Ryan Fraser pleaded guilty prior to the trial commencing.
James Thacker led Dominic Hockley (of 2 Harcourt Buildings) for the Crown (instructed by the…

James Thacker prosecutes New Earth Solutions Group in Health & Safety case after worker dies

On 9th August 2014, Neville Watson was employed as a cleaner and labourer at the NES Kent Limited site at Blaise. He was a respected employee who was keen to progress and commenced shredding waste using a vehicle with a secure cab…

James Thacker successfully prosecutes rapist to a total of 19 years’ imprisonment

Following an 8 day trial at Isleworth Crown Court earlier this year, GM was unanimously convicted of historic rape of two family members, over a 6 year period when the complainants were aged between 6 and 11 years. The indictment, which straddled…

Fraud successfully prosecuted by James Thacker

Following a ten day trial at Southwark Crown Court – Adeshola Dada, an IT helpdesk employee at Genesis Housing Association, was convicted of fraudulently accessing the servers remotely, logging in with other staff members’ credentials and altering bank account information.
The…

Confiscation orders worth in excess of £700,000 secured

James Thacker has concluded a 5 year landmark fraud case. Operation Crystal was the first access to work fraud to be charged and prosecuted in the Criminal courts. 11 defendants (of which 10 were deaf) were convicted over the course of two…

Twenty five years for cocaine conspirators

James Thacker prosecuted Operation Digamy; a conspiracy to supply 2kg of Cocaine with a potential street value of nearly £250,000 and money laundering in the sum of over £100,0000. The case relied upon police surveillance and telephone analysis.
Following a trial,…

James Thacker prosecutes non-fatal shooting at Central Criminal Court

Following a re-trial at the Central Criminal Court (as the first trial was stopped due to legal reasons) in May 2016, Mohammed Nur was convicted of possessing a modified 8mm calibre blank firing pistol capable of firing projectiles and causing lethal injury. 

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