Charlotte Hole

Instructed as junior alone to prosecute a multihanded conspiracy to convey drugs into prison, involving admissibility of intercepted telephone calls.

Leading Dominic Hockley, 2HB – prosecution of an organised crime group identified through Operation Venetic, involving Encrochat and SkyECC material.  The group had conspired to supply wholesale quantities of Class A drugs, and weapons including a Skorpion machine pistol and handguns.

Defence of a man with paranoid schizophrenia who attempted to stab a police officer whilst intoxicated and during an acute psychotic episode.  Junior alone.

Prosecution of an armed robbery of a Post Office by a defendant armed with a handgun.  Junior alone. 

News report:

https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/robber-brandishing-handgun-who-burst-16308125

£384k confiscated from drug dealers following convictions for conspiracy to supply drugs with a street value of over £10m, after 951kg of cannabis was found in a lorry load of rabbit hay.  Junior alone.  (R v Seabrook & ors [Woolwich] 2018)

Prosecution of twelve defendants in relation to a string of high value commercial burglaries involving the theft of rare and precious books.  Led by Catherine Farrelly. 

News reports:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/sep/18/rare-books-stolen-london-heist-found-floor-romania

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/18/rare-books-stolen-romanian-gang-recovered-joint-uk-eu-police/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8747023/2-5million-trove-books-stolen-London-warehouse-Romania.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54209366

Charlotte Hole defended a 25 year old with autism and learning difficulties, charged with malicious communications offences relating to threatening calls he made to the police.  He was found unfit to plead, acquitted of one of the counts, and admitted to the National Autism Unit, a course the Probation Service had been unsuccessfully recommending for a number of years.

Charlotte Hole, instructed by the CPS Complex Casework Unit, prosecuted a serving police officer charged with assaulting two teenagers when called to a domestic dispute.

Charlotte Hole defended an 84 year old man with Alzheimer’s disease who was charged with assaulting his elderly partner, causing her significant facial injuries.  The complainant was unable to attend Court, raising issues of hearsay, and the defendant was unfit to plead.

Charlotte Hole defended a 21 year old social worker in an Operation Trident case, after live ammunition was found in her bedroom.  The defendant faced a mandatory minimum sentence of 5 years, but was acquitted after trial.