Richard Jory KC

Practice Areas

Crime

Financial Crime

Career

Richard has experience prosecuting and defending cases including murder, firearms and organised crime. He is a specialist in international crime, corruption and money laundering, and has been instructed in cases concerning trans-jurisdictional corruption and fraud. He has been appointed to prosecute on behalf of the SFO and FCA and is former Standing Counsel to the RCPO.

Before taking Silk he was the first junior barrister acting as a sole advocate to prosecute a murder, leading to the imposition of a whole life sentence (Baxendale [2012] EWCA Crim 174). In Silk he defended the oldest person at the time to be tried in the UK in a series of historic sex trials (Mount [2015] EWCA Crim 1928). More recently he represented osteopath Jemma Mitchell in her 2022 murder trial at the Old Bailey. Mitchell murdered and beheaded her victim before depositing the body in Devon (‘The Salcombe Murder’). This was the first murder case in the UK with live televised sentencing.

Richard’s overseas practice includes instructions direct from the DPP in Montserrat, where he prosecuted to conviction a high-profile lawyer on money laundering charges in 2022, and he is instructed in a FIFA-related corruption case listed for trial in 2025.

His Inquiry work includes the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, and he is instructed in Module 3 of the Covid Inquiry.

He is the author of articles in Counsel magazine including The Aged Accused (November 2016) and Gambling Addiction and its Connection to Serious Offending (January 2019).

Professional Memberships

Criminal Bar Association