Rekha Patel loses her house

[Pottapaug1938]

Dissolved by a compulsory strike-off? Well, isn't that a corporation fraud whistle-blower government fraud done with fraud by a fraudulent fraud officer committing fraud? Or something....

[He Who Knows]

Rekha's barrister, Henry Hendron still has some fight in him. This time pleading not guilty to buying and selling Class A drugs.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/b ... 30813.html

[John Uskglass]

Henry Hendron update -

A barrister, who previously represented high-profile figures including the Earl of Cardigan, has admitted buying drugs from some of his other clients.

Henry Hendron, 42, was remanded in custody on Friday following an investigation that found messages suggesting he had asked a suspected dealer for drugs.

At the time, Hendron was representing the suspected dealer in a criminal case, and other evidence found he was also buying drugs from another of his clients.

The Metropolitan Police said he was remanded for three counts of intentionally encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence, and a count of possessing Class A drugs at Woolwich Crown Court.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ients.html

Not clear if this is still the 2022 case noted by HWK above, or a separate one.

[AnOwlCalledSage]

Her former lawyer has finely been jailed!

JAIL AT LAST FOR DRUG DEALING BARRISTER HENRY HENDRON WHO BOUGHT COCAINE FROM CLIENTS
13JUN2023

A shamed barrister who once dealt the chemsex pills that killed his teenage boyfriend was jailed for 14 months today (Tues) for buying drugs from clients he represented

https://courtnewsuk.co.uk/jail-at-last- ... y-hendron/

[rosy]

Not before time!

[Albert Haddock]

Appeal: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/2024/338.html

[SpearGrass]

A quick summary of Hendron's appeal

" The facts of this case are unique. It is to be hoped that remains the case ...

"It seems to us that that was the very least sentence which could be imposed in this case following a trial, having regard to all the very serious aggravating factors which we have identified, as did the judge below. It is hard to conceive of a more serious situation in a crime of this kind for a lawyer to seek to procure illegal drugs for himself from a criminal whom he is representing."

We also get some extracts from the psychiatric report:

"Mr Hendron presented as a chaotic, excitable and agitated man...[His] responses suggested he was a high‑spirited, volatile individual, who can present as manic and uncontrolled. Anti‑social conduct and an avoidance of warmth was apparent, although I wondered whether an underlying fear of independence and reliance on others the source of this was. Hostility, self‑absorption, grandiosity and a lack of social conscience were also present."

We learn at the end of the judgement that he plans to appeal against conviction in the future, a course which William Davis LJ described as "a very bold move".

[BoomerSooner17]

This criminality was perpetrated by a member of the Bar who had in the past been convicted of drug-related crimes but had not been disbarred for that conduct. Consequently he was permitted to continue in practice as a barrister.

Hopefully that will change.

[SpearGrass]

Following his suspension for possessing drugs, he was suspended again in 2021 for two years for continuing to hold himself out as a barrister while suspended. But I expect third time to pay for all, and until that happens, I can't see any set of chambers or employer seeing him as an ornament.

Self destructive behaviour, and no judgement or moral compass.