Allison Hunter

Year of Call: 1986

Specialist practice areas: Serious Crime, Criminal/Civil Fraud, Serious Sexual Offences

Email: ahunter@furnivallaw.co.uk

R v David Decoteau (2007)
A “cold case” rape at gunpoint committed in 1996 at the Anne Summers, Queensway. The defendant was sentenced to four life sentences.

R v Brown (2007)
The case involved the sale of a 13 year old’s virginity to an un undercover reporter posing as an Arab Sheikh.

R v Ian Dundas-Jones & others (2005-6)
Otherwise known as Operation Bella Vista, this was the prosecution of the ‘Bling Bling Gang’, which was cited by the Sunday Times as 'the criminal case of 2006'. This global conspiracy involved the successful prosecution of 65 members all over the world. 17 defendants were prosecuted over the course of two trials in Snaresbrook Crown Court. A third trial of six defendants is currently pending before the Harrow Crown Court

R v Vincent, Smith & others (2006)
More popularly known as the "Hoddesden Gym murder", this concerned the drive-by shooting of Dave King using AK47s.

R v Barion Baluchi (2005)
The case of the Iranian asylum seeking taxi driver, who posed as a neuro-psychiatrist, registered as an expert witness on the Law Society’s panel of experts, wrote articles, gave lectures, established a clinic and obtained £1/2 million from various Trust Corporations.

R v Simons (2004)
Junior defence counsel for one of nine defendants in the trial of one of 36 linked VAT/MTIC frauds: Operation Vehicle.

R v Toby Studebaker (2003)
The case of the American marine who abducted and raped a 12 year old girl from Manchester.

R v Hook; R v Geoffrey Clarke & R v Leslie Cecil Paul (2001-2003)
Cases arising out of Operation Middleton, a long term investigation into the rape and abuse of children in care in London's children’s homes during the 1970s - 1980s. At the conclusion of this operation, Allison was awarded a ‘Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of Commitment and Professional Ability in support of Operation Middleton’ by Detective Chief Superintendent Peter Spindler on behalf of the Metropolitan Police Service.

R v Hersi and others
A 15-handed Conspiracy to Supply Class A drugs, and firearms and to pervert the course of justice.

R v Akram & others
A seven-handed prosecution of an organised criminal network on charges of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and money laundering.

R v Richardson & others
This multi-handed prosecution involved offences of armed robbery and money laundering;

R v O’Connor & others
A case of conspiracy to supply Class A drugs and money laundering;

R v Johnson & others
The trial of the murder of Charles Butler, which was captured on CCTV and broadcast on Crimewatch.

R v Michael Roberts
The Southwark Rapist who committed a series of brutal assaults and rapes upon elderly females living alone in the late 1980s - 1990s.

Enron       21/7       Guiness       Deep Cut       Madrid train bombings       Lexi Holdings       Stansted hijacking       Goldman Sachs       Irahbi007       Pentagon hacker       Millennium Dome robbery       Kent Pharmaceuticals       Paul Burrell       DC Stephen Oake murder       Anthrax       DC Sharon Beshenivsky murder       Tonbridge robbery       PC Ian Broadhurst murder       Fertiliser bomb plot       BCCI        Ricin plot       Blue Arrow       Capewell       Elf Oil       Trojan Horse computer virus       Gloucester shoe bomber       Al-Qa'eda training camps plot       Extraordinary rendition       Beheading plot       Jennings & May       Beauty in the bath       9/11       The lady in the Lake       Mohammed Dica       Jane Andrews       Ruth Ellis       May Day riots       Liquid bomb plot       Adams Family