Year of Call: 1984
Jonathan has practised entirely in Crime for 25 years. He acts as leading and junior counsel and has recently led for the defence in a number of manslaughter and money laundering trials He defends and prosecutes mainly in cases involving serious violence and sexual offences. He represented Joey Cooper in R v Schaub and Cooper The Times, December 3, 1993 C.A. which was at the time the leading authority on screens in rape cases.
He represented Michael Stone (Chillenden murders) in both trials (October 1998 & September 2001) and the Court of Appeal (2001) the highest profile case of its time.
He also represented a young man charged with the contract killing of an eight month pregnant woman co-defending with her husband who ordered his wife's murder. He represented a man at his trial who faced allegations that he had broken ten bones in the body of a three year old child - his step son. In August 2002 he represented one of fifteen young men all charged with Prison Mutiny the first time such an allegation was tried.
Jonathan represented the man alleged to be the inside man in the Tonbridge Robbery, the biggest ever cash robbery when £53 million was taken from the Securitas depot by a commando-style raid.
