Oliver Blunt QC

Year of Call: 1974

Specialist practice areas: Serious Crime, Criminal/Civil Fraud, Anti-terrorism

R v Davis (2009)            

Double murder re-trial following House of Lords ruling on anonymous witnesses.

R v Uddin (2009)

Matricide Murder.

R v Tobin (2009)

Murder dating back to 1991 linked to the Vicky Hamilton murder tried in Scotland in 2006

R v Colwell & others (2009)

Highly publicised Sayers conspiracies to commit large scale mortgage fraud in the North-East.

R v Johal (2008)

Blackmail case involving a serving police officer accused of blackmailing known sex offenders.

R v Goren (2008)

Multi-million pound conspiracy to import heroin from Turkey.

R v Butt & others (2007)

Tooting double murder trial and successful appeal against conviction.

R v Sharif (2007)

Trial arising out of the 21/7 bombing attempts.

R v Larcenko (2006)

People trafficking.

R v Dorian Morris (2005)

Successfully defended in multi-million pound money laundering trial.

R v Schahou (2004)

The Goldman Sachs fraud trial

R v Kounnou (2003)

A £200 million shipping fraud at the Central Criminal Court.

R v William Cockram and Others (2002)

The trial of the Millennium Dome robbers at the Central Criminal Court.

R v John Taft (1999)

The so-called ‘Beauty in the Bath’ murder involving the re-opening of an unsolved crime from 1983, which had produced 250 possible suspects. Heard at Liverpool Crown Court, November 1999.

R v Syd Owen (1995)

Successfully defended “Ricky” of Eastenders in his S.18 wounding trial.

R v Michael Sams (1993)

Trial involving allegations of kidnapping, blackmail & murder.

R v Hillier and Others (1993)

Successfully defended the first defendant in a £150 million cocaine importation trial.

R v Canning and Lamb (1993)

Appeared for the second defendant in this IRA trial at the Central Criminal Court.

R v Drake and Others (1987)

The trial and successful appeal of the ‘Chelsea Headhunters’.