Ian Whitehurst successfully represents defendant in confiscation proceedings

Ian Whitehurst has successfully represented a defendant in a Proceeds of Crime Act case.

The defendant was charged with breaching a restraint order arising from an ongoing confiscation case involving her husband. She was accused of dissipating assets. Further to defence requests for disclosure from the prosecution, the proceedings were withdrawn by the prosecution shortly before the trial was to be heard in Leeds Crown Court.

Ian was instructed by Helen Lynch of Cohen Cramer.