James Bourne Arton KC, Instructed by Eric Watson of Watson Woodhouse, acted as Leading Counsel for the second defendant in a five defendant case all charged with a joint enterprise murder.
After a 28 day trial Mr Bourne-Arton KC’s client was was acquitted of Murder but convicted of Manslaughter, with Defendant’s one and five being convicted of Murder.
The incident involved the murder of an innocent man, wrongly identified as being responsible for burgling defendants ones home address.
Four Defendants went to the home address of the deceased and attacked him with a baseball bat, kicks and punches before one of the Defendants stabbed the deceased with a knife. The Defendants all ran “cut-throat” defences with defendant five claiming that Mr Bourne- Arton KC’s client had been the man who stabbed the victim, this was clearly rejected by the jury.
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