Mark Heywood KC

6-handed shooting murder and associated woundings carried out over a trivial debt in order to secure a drug dealer’s standing.

4-handed joint enterprise murder with a machete in a busy shopping centre.

Manslaughter a 2-year-old child who was fatally starved and dehydrated while fasting as an act of religious devotion, to spare the country from the covid pandemic during the lockdown of 2020 while the defendant’s mental state had developed into insanity.

Murder of a man tortured to death in the mistaken belief that he was storing large quantities of drugs.

Cold case investigation leading to the prosecution of a defendant 41 years after the sexual assault and killing of a teenage girl. The case involved proving that the original suspect, who had pleaded guilty to the killing in 1976 and never appealed, could not have been guilty.

Conspiracy to murder, gang revenge killing.

Defended the internationally reported case of a woman alleged to have murdered her terminally ill husband in a murder/suicide pact which only she survived.

Defending a stepfather in cut-throat defence against the mother of a child who had been successively assaulted leaving brain damage in the months prior to a fatal stamping.

Series of trials and appeals arising from rapes and other sexual abuse of residents of a care home by members of staff.