Dominic Connolly
UK Bar Guide 2024
Band 3 : Crime
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About
Provided by Dominic Connolly
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Specialist criminal practitioner with experience in murder/manslaughter, complex fraud, organised crime, serious sex offences, and proceeds of crime.
Career
Prosecuted, as leading junior and alone, serious and high-profile cases including murder, drug trafficking, complex fraud and serious sexual offences, particularly those involving historical allegations.
Experience in fraud includes boiler room frauds, missing trader fraud, advance fee fraud and tax evasion. Considerable experience in the restraint, confiscation and forfeiture of the proceeds of crime.
Recent cases include:
Binary Options trading scam that netted £3.5million from over 80 “investors.”
Multi-handed [10 defendant] boiler room fraud operating out of offices in London and Birmingham whereby approximately £ 2 million was obtained in relation to non-existent investments.
Diamond investment fraud where cheap coloured diamonds were sold as investments having been purchased by the fraudsters at a fraction of the price they were being sold on for.
Multi-million-pound conspiracy to burgle and steal medical equipment from ambulances and medical centres across England.
Conspiracy to steal tobacco seized by the UK Border Force awaiting incineration at a high-security depot in Kent.
“Stranger” rape of a young female bar worker in an underpass in the early hours of the morning.
Attempted double murder of the defendant’s grandmother and her close friend.
Multiple rape of the defendant’s former partner and the kidnap, rape and attempted murder of her 17-year-old daughter.
The murder of a drug addict by a street dealer who drove his car at the victim as he fled following a dispute over a drug supply.