Gregory Perrins

Practice
Gregory Perrins possesses considerable experience as a specialist Criminal barrister. He has developed a practice with a geographic spread that takes him from London to courts across the South Eastern Circuit to East Anglia. His practice covers all areas of serious crime with an emphasis on serious sexual offences, whilst retaining a significant amount of white-collar crime, serious fraud and regulatory offences. He is increasingly in demand to act as leading counsel and has previous experience of being led by others.

Gregory has a developing interest in those areas where the criminal law overlaps with the corporate world including the recent developments with the Bribery Act and Corporate manslaughter. He is increasingly being sought to give legal advice or simply best practice advice direct to clients.

Serious Crime
In the recent past he appeared as leading defence counsel in the high profile prosecution of a headmaster accused of sadistically sexually and physically abusing boys at a remote private boarding school in the 1980. This was further to appearing as leading counsel in the case of “Son of God”, the head of the largest international paedophile ring prosecuted on Circuit. He has also recently acted as leading counsel in a large-scale conspiracy to supply drugs in Suffolk.

He has appeared as junior counsel for both the prosecution and the defence in several cases of murder, attempted murder and solicitation to murder. He was counsel first instructed in the case of Steve Wright, the “Suffolk Strangler”. Gregory has particular experience of representing children who commit serious offences including attempted murder, child abduction and rape and has been praised for his approach and manner in dealing with these types of matters.

Criminal Fraud
Gregory has prosecuted and defended several serious multi-million pound frauds and has been instructed as junior counsel by the CPS Fraud Prosecution Service in the case of £2.5 million fraud on the NHS. He also has experience of large-scale confiscation work and was counsel in the leading authority on extending time for compliance with a confiscation order. In the recent past he has been instructed as leading counsel by the CPS Complex Case Unit in the successful prosecution of 8 defendants involved in 3 interlinked conspiracies to steal good worth in excess of £400k.

Regulatory
Since 2003 Gregory has prosecuted regulatory offences on behalf of the Office of Communications (Ofcom) across England and Northern Ireland. He has significant experience of both advisory work and litigation across a broad spectrum of English and European regulatory law.

Health and Safety
Gregory also has notable experience of dealing with serious cases involving health and safety considerations. He is being instructed with increasing regularity in this area of law. In the recent past this has included representing a train driver responsible for derailing a busy commuter train as well as a company director prosecuted for offences arising out of a fatality at work.

Notable Cases

Serious Crime

R v Graczyk
Prosecution – Husband charged with the attempted murder of his wife by repeatedly cutting her throat

R v AR
Defence - 3-month trial of a 15-year-old boy charged with others in respect of the gangland kidnap, blackmail and torture of a young man with learning disabilities.

R v Slade
2010 Leading counsel (with Nicola Talbot) in case of a sadistic paedophile headmaster accused of seriously sexually and physically abusing over 15 boys at a boarding school in the 1980’s (a case which has since been made the subject of a BBC1 documentary, 'An Abuse of Trust').

1. Daily Mail
2. London Evening Standard
3. BBC
4. Sky
5. BBC

R v Samrias
Defence – Junior counsel for a lifer prisoner charged with attempting to murder two prison guards at a high security prison.

R v Caunter and others
Prosecution – Junior counsel (with Karim Khalil QC) in the extradition and subsequent prosecution of a man charged with the brutal murder of his fianc้.

1. BBC

R v Cox
Defence – Leading counsel (with Quinton Newcomb) in case of the “Son of God”, the self-styled head of an international paedophile ring operating from a remote Suffolk farmhouse.

1. BBC

R v EW
Defence – Junior counsel (with Alastair Malcolm QC) in case of a 15 year old girl charged with attempting to murder her mother and father.

R v Rahim
Prosecution – Junior counsel (with Karim Khalil QC) in case of an Iraqi gangland murder.

R v Quinton
Prosecution – Junior counsel (with John Farmer) in case of a wife engaging the services of a hit man to murder her husband.

1. BBC

R v GC
Defence – A 15-year-old boy charged with the abduction and subsequent sexual assault of two toddlers.

R v MM
Defence – 16-year-old boy charged with raping an elderly pensioner.

R v A
Defence – 13-year-old boy charged with repeatedly raping his 5-year-old brother.

Jan-v-Regina
Defence – Junior counsel (with Karim Khalil QC) in the Court of Appeal in a serious case of firebombing by a man described in the British press as one of the most dangerous stalkers in Briton. The case involved the successful appeal against one of the few whole life tariffs imposed by the British courts.

1. BBC
2. London Evening Standard

Criminal Fraud

R v Ali & Ors
Defence counsel in the case of a significant and widespread "crash for cash" conspiracy whereby staged car accidents formed the basis of a £500,000 fraud on various insurance companies over the course of several years.

R –v- Fiddes & Others
Prosecution brief instructed by the Complex Case Unit – Leading counsel (with Quinton Newcomb) in a case of 8 defendants involved in three interlinked conspiracies to steal goods worth in excess of £400k. For report click here

1. BBC

R v Greenacre [2007] EWHC 1193 (Admin)
Appellant – Leading authority on extending time for compliance with pre-POCA confiscation orders.

Regulatory

R v Mitchell
Prosecution – The first known appearance on the UK market of complex mobile communications jamming equipment.

R v Harrington
Prosecution – The importation and onward sale of unlawful sophisticated surveillance equipment to members of the public.

R v MR
Prosecution – U.S importers storing unlawful communications enhancing equipment and selling through a UK based company.

Health and Safety

R v Bartasius
Defence – Lorry driver derailing a busy commuter train causing over £1 million damage and seriously injuring 25 passengers.

1. BBC
2. BBC

R v AB
Defence – Company Directory prosecuted for health and safety failings leading to a fatality at the workplace

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