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The charges also included possession of ammunition without a certificate, and other offences of serious violence.
The case alleged a sophisticated gang attempt to shoot and kill a person waiting in a vehicle on a busy South London Street. The case was complicated by the fact that one of the alleged attackers accidentally shot himself dead at the scene. The defence required a difficult forensic challenge to the DNA recovered from one of the firearms.
After a four week trial at Woolwich Crown Court the defendant was aquitted of all charges.
Alphege was instructed as Junior Counsel by Taiann Fadayomi of Banks and Partners Solicitors.
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