Abigail Penny secures across the board acquittals for a banker charged with a serious sexual offence, controlling and coercive behaviour and other associated offences after successful submission of no case to answer.

Abigail Penny secured the acquittal of an investment banker after a successful submission of no case to answer after 3 years of proceedings in the Crown Court.   

The case began with the defendant’s wife making a simple allegation of common assault, but as acrimonious and high-value divorce and child care proceedings in the Family Court got under way, the complainant added to her allegations. She suggested that the defendant had breached a non-molestation order, used controlling and coercive behaviour towards her and committed sexual assault by penetration. The evolving nature of the allegations and issues relating to the conduct of the complainant disrupted the proceedings in the criminal courts. Three trial listings were aborted before the matter was finally tried. The case had significant complexity because there was in excess of 138,000 pages of evidence to marshal, including statements, exhibits and transcripts of the evidence given in the protracted Family Court proceedings, very extensive mobile telephone download data and other material, that was deployed to secure the acquittal of the defendant.

Abigail was privately instructed by Mark Bowen and Anna Ford of Shearman Bowen & Co Solicitors, 6 – 9 Snow Hill, London EC1A 2AY.