Acquittal For Man Acting in Self-Defence

12 May 2025

Following a 3-day trial at Woolwich Crown Court, the jury acquitted the defendant of causing the complainant really serious injuries with intent to do so and the lesser alternative s.20 offence. Having been addressed on the CCTV and audio footage of the defendant stabbing the complainant on two occasions over the course of an evening and the expert evidence on the level of force necessary to stab someone through the fat and muscular wall of the abdomen and upper bowel, the jury accepted the defendant had been acting in self-defence. 

Gordon was instructed by Thomas Boyd White solicitors.

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