Dickon Reid

• Op Vivalas and Kikifeet [CCC] 2024

  Revolver found after a stabbing, then a shotgun fired into a home through a letterbox

  Dickon Reid and Sam Willis prosecuted the joint case arising from Operations Vivalas and Kikifeet. After a stabbing in North London, police found a loaded Turkish revolver inside the victim’s car. Less than 48-hours later, three masked men fired a 12-bore shotgun through the letterbox of a house connected to the stabber. The prosecution’s case was that the two incidents were linked - the second being a revenge attack for the first.

• R v Keet and Others [Kingston Crown Court] 2022

  Britain's Biggest Ever Amphetamine Factory

   William Davis leading Dickon Reid prosecuted a man who ran Britain's biggest ever amphetamine factory producing £10m of the drugs a month.  He was sentenced for 18 years.

  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12073391/Gang-boss-ran-Britains-biggest-amphetamine-factory-jailed-18-years.html

• Operation Suina [Kingston] 2019

  £8m nationwide Drug Supply operation

  Charlotte Newell led Dickon Reid in this 2 month Prosecution of an organised crime network involving 11 Defendants for a multi-million pound nationwide Class A drug dealing operation, the proceeds of which were laundered through a series of sham companies.

  News report here.

• Operation Eric [Chelmsford] 2018

  £3.6m Alcohol duty & VAT evasion fraud

  William Davis led Dickon Reid in the prosecution of five defendants charged with a £3.6m alcohol duty and VAT evasion fraud. The ringleaders were importing beer, wine and spirits from Europe using sophisticated mirror loads. Evidentially, the case was complicated and comprised numerous strands including surveillance, phone evidence, CCTV, business records and expert evidence relating to cell site, handwriting and tachographs. The two leading defendants received sentences close to the statutory maximum. Instructed by CPS Special Casework.

  News Report Here

• R v. Nazzary & ors [C.C.C.] 2018

  Gang knife attack

  Natasha Wong QC led Dickon Reid in the defence of a vulnerable young man with very limited English who was acquitted of joint enterprise murder and manslaughter as secondary party in alleged gang knife attack involving a drug debt. Instructed by Thomas Boyd Whyte Solicitors.

• Operation Tandil [Croydon] 2018

  Violent disorder arising out of an attack on an asylum seeker in Croydon

  Two linked trials. Jonathan Polnay led Ben Holt in the first and Ben Holt led Dickon Reid in the second. A total of 14 defendants were charged with violent disorder arising out of an attack on an asylum seeker in Croydon. The case attracted international media attention. Instructed to SCU at CPS London.

  Daily Mirror report here

  Daily Mail report here

• Operation Kilburn [Maidstone] 2016

  Immigration Scam

  Edmund Fowler led Dickon Reid for the Crown in this complex multi-handed conspiracies to facillitate the illegal immigration of 83 individuals from France.  

• Operation Slate [Wood Green] 2016

  Conspiracy to Supply Class A drugs

  Catherine Pattison led Dickon Reid in this case case involving ten defendants charged with supplying large quantities of heroin across North London.

• R v. M & ors [Snaresbrook] 2016

  Conspiracies to Rob

  Dickon Reid was led by Peter Clement in this case involving six defendants charged with conspiracy to rob. The defendants were part of a group responsible for a number of robberies in East London during which victims were attacked with a baseball bat.

• R v. J & ors [Isleworth] 2016

  Supply of Firearms & Ammunition

  Robert Ellison led Dickon Reid in this case involving four defendants charged with possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life, possession of cannabis with intent to supply and with the supply of firearms and ammunition. The defendants were accused of robbing drug dealers at gunpoint of cash and drugs. 

• Operation Sifiye [Snaresbrook] 2016

  Conspiracy to import cocaine

  Catherine Pattison led Dickon Reid in this case involving thirteen defendants charged with conspiring to import large quantities of cocaine secreted in golf clubs and golf bags. Two trials involving complicated telephone evidence lasted a total of five and a half months in 2015-2016.

• Operation Crow [Maidstone] 2015

  Conspiracy to import cocaine

  Ben Temple led Dickon Reid in this case involving fourteen defendants charged with conspiracy to import cocaine, amphetamine and cannabis into the United Kingdom. 

Notable Cases

• R v. Thompson [Aylesbury] 2013

  Historic Sex Abuse

  Sarah Forshaw QC leading Dickon Reid successfully represented this defendant who had Aspergers and was charged and cleared of 42 counts of historic sexual assaults. The defendant had similar fact previous convictions which were renewed to the Court of Appeal and subsequently overturned. Instructed by Edward Hayes LLP. Internet report here.

• R v. B & ors [Winchester] 2011

  Conspiracy to Murder

  Mark Heywood QC led Dickon Reid for a defendant cleared of his involvement in a five-handed conspiracy to murder case in which the defendants were accused of carrying out a series of vigilante attacks over a two-week period. Instructed by Blackfords LLP. 

• R v. M & anr [C.C.C.] 2010

  Murder

  Sarah Forshaw QC led Dickon Reid Four-week murder trial at the Central Criminal Court in which the defendant was accused of murdering his ex-wife.