KF, a vulnerable 21 year old man charged with Joint Enterprise Murder with 5 others was acquitted unanimously after a 10 week trial at the Old Bailey after just 12 hours of jury deliberation.

KF was charged with others of committing an Arson attack on a property in Woolwich on 5 September 2018. The case against him was that he drove a motorbike to Centurian Square, Woolwich at 01.00hrs with his co-defendant as the pillion passenger who was carrying a petrol can in his back pack. The pillion passenger decamped the bike and poured petrol over the front door of the premises, set fire to the door and threw a brick through the window. KF denied that he had any knowledge of the planned attack and did not participate in it in any way. The main organiser of the pre-planned attack and the pillion passenger were convicted of Murder which had an underlying motive of an unpaid drugs debt. The innocent woman killed in the fire was a relative of the intended target. Two others were seriously injured.

KF was represented by senior solicitor William Russell, assisted by trainee solicitor Jessica Gosling. Counsel instructed were Brenda Campbell QC of Garden Court Chambers and Ronnie Manek in-house counsel at GT Stewart Solicitors & Advocates.

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