Category: old bailey

3 Men Convicted of Transferred Malice Murder in UK Legal First

Three men who launched a gun attack on a rival gang in northwest London have been convicted of the murder of their friend after their adversaries suddenly turned the tables on them and fired back, killing him. The conviction at the Old Bailey in London of Issa Seed and Adel Yussuf, both 25, and Daniel…


Picket Line Outside the Old Bailey as UK Barristers go on Strike Over Legal Aid

Around 50 barristers, wearing traditional wigs, set up a picket line outside the Old Bailey—the most famous court in Britain—as a strike began on Monday over pay and working conditions. Barristers also set up picket lines outside courts in Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, and Cardiff. Outside the Old Bailey, Lucie Wibberley, secretary of the Criminal…


UK: Man Gets Schoolboy Sentence for Childhood Murder of Rikki Neave

LONDON—A 41-year-old man who murdered a six-year-old English boy in 1994 has been sentenced by a judge as if he was a schoolboy. In what is thought to be a legal first, James Watson, who was 13 when he strangled Rikki Neave, was given the mandatory sentence for a juvenile —detention at Her Majesty’s Pleasure—at…