187 Chambers’ Post

Bark&Co secure the acquittal of a client charged with the Conspiracy to supply £83million of Cocaine. The prosecution alleged our client to be part of a group operating at the highest level of Serious Organised Crime in the United Kingdom and with international connections. Both the value of the drugs and the direct link to the importation meant that any conviction would lead to sentences of c25 years. Vanessa Wiggins of Bark&Co and Henry Hughes of 187 Chambers represented the client in a hard fought and attritional trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court. The client was proven to be involved in the physical receipt of a smuggled delivery of ¾ of a tonne of high quality cocaine as it arrived in the United Kingdom. The drugs had a street value of £83million and had been shipped directly from Central America. The case was fought on the basis that the law required the prosecution to exclude the possibility that the defendant was ignorant of the contents of the delivery. After a 6 week trial the jury unanimously acquitted our client.