Ashcott Criminal Solicitors were successful in winning a case surrounding allegations made by an Undercover Police Officer.
Due to the exposure of Police procedural flaws by Ashcott Criminal Solicitors in the case involving serious allegations of Drug Supply, the Crown Prosecution service were forced to abandon the case at Bolton Crown Court.
The regulations governing the use of evidence from undercover Police officers are complex and wideranging however breaches of their practice and procedure are surprisingly seldom exploited by Criminal Defence Lawyers. This particular case sunk on Police failures to adequately and properly identify the Ashcotts Client as being the same person as alleged by the Undercover officer as an individual involved in major drug supply.
There was an abject failure to hold any sort of Viper Identification Process as the Officer was simply being taken at his word. That was quite simply not acceptable when dealing with an Ashcotts client whom was wrongly accused of being involved in the Operation.
Representaions invoking the Turnbull identification principles were necessary resulting in the Crown Prosecution Service abandoning the case.
Ashcott Criminal Soliciors will always take a robust stance to allegations made by undercover police officers. We are traditionally suspicious of the safety of allegations emanating from individuals who are professional liars. Quite often one sees with undercover police officers the line between truth and fiction becomes distinctly blurred. Individuals who lie for a living and are under great pressure to secure convictions and justify their expenses sometimes don’t know how to stop misleading when it comes to dealing with their line managers or controllers and more importantly when giving their evidence to the court.
Contact Ashcott Criminal Solicitors if you have been set up by undercover Police officers.
