Catherine Farrelly

Practice Profile

Catherine Farrelly is specialist criminal practitioner with a wealth of experience in cases of organised crime, homicide and sexual offending.

Catherine's career to date has seen her involved in numerous cases involving large-scale and complex cases of fraud and deception charges, conspiracies involving money, multi-handed offending in relation to kidnap and drugs and she is frequently instructed in cases of serious sexual assaults against women and children.

Catherine is regularly instructed in cases as a leading junior advocate, often leading junior members of Chambers or in-house advocates in cases that require forensic skill and the ability to assimilate huge amounts of served and unused material. Additionally, Catherine is regularly instructed in cases that require sensitivity and particularly those involving young defendants and witness and those considered to be vulnerable. Catherine's regulatory experience includes prosecutions brought by local authorities in respect of housing and benefit fraud, health and safety, trading strandards and enviromental act proceedings.

 

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News

• R v. Rekaya [Isleworth] 2018

  Prosecution of £90,000 Grenfell fraudster

  Catherine Farrelly successfully prosecuted a man who ran up nearly £90,000 in accommodation and travel costs, after pretending to be a victim of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

  He was sentenced to four years and six months imprisonment.

  The news report may be found here.

• R v. Glenn [ILCC] 2018

  Rape of 13 year old school girl

  Catherine Farrelly prosecuted this matter in which the defendant grabbed a 13-year-old schoolgirl off the street and filmed himself raping her. He was jailed for 11 years.

  News report here.

• R v. Hussain [Snaresbrook] 2017

  Series of Sex Attacks by Uber Driver

  Catherine Farrelly prosecuted this Uber driver whom was sentenced to 12 years for rapes and sexual assaults. Hussain lay in wait outside popular London bars looking for drunken women to rape, preying on women leaving pubs in Shoreditch, in the east of the capital before attacking them as they slept.

  Daily Mail report here.

• R v. Defontaine [Croydon] 2017

  Sexual Assaults on own family members

  Catherine Farrelly prosecuted this "persistent and manipulative” paedophile who carried out a series of sexual assaults on 6 of his own family members. He was sentenced to 18 years.

  Evening Standard report here.

• R v. Khan & Barclay [C.C.C.] 2017

  Revenge Stabbing

  Catherine Farrelly was prosecution Counsel in this trial of two defendants for the pre-meditated revenge stabbing of another in connection with a drug-deal gone awry. The case involved the analysis of a significant amount of telephone evidence in addition to expert cell site and voice recognition evidence.

  Guardian News report here.

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