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Rebecca’s client was charged with attempted murder and possession of an offensive weapon, having stabbed a man multiple times in a pub in Clapham last February.
The Prosecution case relied heavily on CCTV evidence and eye witness accounts, including alleged threats to kill made by the defendant during the incident.
However during cross examination the victim confessed to having misled the police during the investigation. He accepted that a large combat knife, found at the scene, was brought to the premises by him; as had been suggested by the defendant from the outset.
The charge of possessing the combat knife was stopped at the end of the Prosecution case, and the jury, sitting at the Central Criminal Court, subsequently acquitted the defendant of attempted murder.
The defendant will be sentenced for the offences of possession of an offensive weapon and section 18 wounding, which he admitted prior to trial, in March.
Rebecca was instructed by David Holmes of Dalton Holmes Gray.
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