George Payne’s Client acquitted of murder in Norwich Crown Court after a seven-week trial

George Payne (led by Stephen Moses KC) acquitted of murder in Norwich Crown Court after a seven-week trial.  They were both instructed by Mark Stewart of Stewart Begum Solicitors of London.  Their young client SF was charged with joint enterprise murder in the high-profile case relating to people said to have been involved in the supply of class A drugs in the Norwich Area.  The prosecution relied on an eyewitness of the killing and phone evidence said to have shown that SF’s phone was turned off and used in a way consistent with being at scene of the killing.  George Payne cross-examined both prosecution phone experts forcing them to concede that the phone may actually have switched on and used in the London area rather than in Norwich at the relevant time.

Stephen Moses KC directly challenged the evidence of the eyewitness accusing him of having not actually seen SF at all, but naming him as an associate of others present.  The eyewitness changed his evidence having been confronted and accepted in cross-examination that SF had in fact not been there. After seven weeks of evidence and on review the CPS decided to offer no further evidence against SF and he was found not guilty by unanimous verdict of the jury.