R V Colin Cooke (2017) – Wolverhampton Crown Court
The prosecution of a conspiracy to rob a man in his flat which culminated in his murder.
Andrew Wallace specialises exclusively in crime and has extensive experience prosecuting and defending all types of criminal work.
Andrew is a serious sexual crime panel member. He has extensive experience in dealing with cases involving historical complaints, multiple Complainants, serious domestic violence, child Complainants and breach of trust.
In the past few years he has regularly given lectures to the West Midlands Police Sexual Offences Training College on the subject of Preliminary Investigations into Sexual Offences.
Areas of Work:
The prosecution of a conspiracy to rob a man in his flat which culminated in his murder.
The Defendant inflicted life-threatening injuries with a knife to the abdomen of the Complainant.
The Defendant attempted to murder his wife by suffocating her.
Prosecuting a Defendant who caused over 30 fractures to a 3-6 month old baby.
The Prosecution of a nursery school manager who assaulted or ill-treated several very young children in her school.
The Defendant had 2 cannabis factories and 2 separate business premises.
The Defendant was the principal organiser in a substantial drugs conspiracy run from Wolverhampton to supply class A drugs from an address in Worcester.
The Defendant(s) in Walsall directed a courier(s) from Sheffield to collect ½ kilo of high purity cocaine from a supplier in London (D) to deliver to the receiver (W) in Birmingham. The case turned principally on phone distribution and analysis.
Several large residential or commercial premises converted into large scale cannabis factories.
The importation of 1 million worth of class A drugs.
The Defendant discharged 5 shots from a revolver shooting one person in the head.
The Defendant obtained a converted firearm.
The Defendant being chased by Police Officers, jumped from the Aston Expressway and got into a stationary car forcing the occupants with the threat of a firearm to drive away from the scene.
The Defendant defrauded banks out of 1.3 million.
The Defendant defrauded her employers out of 400,000.
JH and his associates obtained his grandmother’s property by forgery. DP’sdemolished the property, developed it and sold it for 1.2 million.
The Defendant obtained over 100,000 of benefit payments to which she was not entitled.
The Defendant and another attended an address with masks and weapons to enforce a drug ….. and attacked the occupants.
A man with a history of targeting elderly females in their own home, blind-folding them sexually assaulting them and burgling their homes.
The Defendant and a group of other young males robbed a family in their own home at gunpoint.
The night time kidnaps of a shopkeeper and his assistant to obtain the alarm codes to his shop.
Following the conviction of 23 Defendants for drug trafficking offences, confiscation orders for realisable sums totalling several millions of pounds were obtained.
involving a benefit of 1.6 million obtained by bank fraud.
Substantial hearing involving drug benefit of 2.3 million and a confiscation order made in the sum of 406,000.
A mother falsely imprisoned her daughter’s boyfriend and with her sons tied him up and humiliated him by beating him, shaving his head and making him dress in women’s clothing.
The Defendant conspired with others to kidnap a nightclub owner and demand a ransom. When the conspirators went to collect the ransom, they were intercepted by Police.
The Complainant was detained against his will, subjected to a serious beating and forced to telephone his mother to obtain money to secure his release.
A cocaine conspiracy involving 23 Defendants and the multi kilo supply of cocaine from Greater London via the West Midlands to Humberside.
Junior in a complex class A drugs conspiracy, involving 2 police forces, a large number of Defendants across the country and the sourcing and supplying of kilogram packages of heroin and cocaine from Liverpool to Birmingham, where it was cut before being delivered to Sussex where it was sold on the streets.
A shooting of a bar owner in Bilston, case involved joint enterprise, the main 2 defendants being sentenced to 28 and 29 years respectively.
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Vitalie Tanga was convicted of murder by a jury after a 2 week trial prosecuted by Michelle Heeley KC and Andrew Wallace. Alfred Mattox was…
Adrian Keeling KC leading Andrew Wallace prosecuted 3 men responsible for the death of drug dealer Jamie Benbow in Handsworth Wood. Calvin McLeod (38), who…
