Rishi Nathwani led by Kieran Vaughan QC represented the Defendant in a 8 week long, 3 handed murder allegation relating to the brutal killing of Danny Gough in his bed whilst he slept next to his pregnant girlfriend.
The Crown alleged that the attack was planned and executed by Monteith and his 2 co-defendants as revenge for the deceased a month earlier breaking into Monteith’s home and slashing his face. Case involved complex low copy DNA of the Defendant found within the crime scene that was the subject of legal argument culminating in the Crown no longer relying upon it. There was also eye witness evidence, computer evidence telephone/cell site and CCTV evidence, as well as placing before the jury motives of others who wished to kill the deceased. Mr Monteith and his co-defendants were unanimously acquitted by the jury. Instructed by Goldkorns.
