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Fatima Jama

Fatima Jama secured a discontinuance of serious drugs charges for her youth client

05/02/2025

Through carefully prepared representations, Fatima persuaded the Crown Prosecution Service not to proceed with the case, despite the defendant’s prior convictions. The matter involved a vulnerable young person who had been identified as a victim of modern slavery through a positive conclusive grounds decision. The case was further complicated by the client’s status as a refugee who had fled the Syrian conflict four years before arriving in the UK.

Fatima was instructed by Pelin Mehmet of SVS Solicitors.

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