T Alun Jenkins QC

 "Alun Jenkins QC is a practitioner of great ability, experience and expertise" - Legal 500 2010

EDUCATION:

University of Bristol – LLB (Hons) 1971
Called 1972 Lincoln’s Inn
Assistant Recorder 1992
Recorder 2000 – tickets in Civil and Crime
Head of Chambers 1995
QC 1996
Bencher of Lincolns Inn 2010

Extensive experience in exceptionally serious crime, violent, fraudulent, UK and International, prosecuting and defending as a junior and silk. International dimension achieved initially as a junior on the smuggling of drugs being imported by boat from the Caribbean or Mediterranean. After taking silk in 1996 visiting Holland, Belgium and Spain on Commissions Rogatoire and appearing in the Courts of Barcelona on money laundering cases. Now he specialises in White Collar Fraud, Corporate & Regulatory Liability, Carousel & MTIC Fraud, Vat Evasion, Currency Transfers and Exchange, Bristol - London, UK - International.

CAREER CASE HISTORY

Set out below is a selection of cases in which Alun Jenkins QC has been involved, but it should not be regarded as complete.

FRAUD

Operation Fulcrum R v. d’Angibau Tobacco and alcohol diversion fraud.

Operation Carina £55,000,000 loss of excise revenue due to a diversion fraud involving the movements of an estimated 550 lorry loads of alcohol which failed to arrive at the stated bonded warehouses of destination. Cross border smuggling of tobacco and alcohol

Operation Scirocco – tobacco and alcohol fraud involving £168,000,000 lost excise revenue. The monies obtained by the defendants in this case were laundered by investments in Spanish holiday resorts and it was also asserted that the monies were the proceeds of illegal diamond exports from Angola. Two courts were set up in Barcelona in the course of this case to trace the monies involved.

Operation Techo Diversion fraud

Operation Mamba –£9,000,000 mobile phone importation carousel and missing trader fraud.

R v. Davies – International tachograph fraud

R v. Fern – carpet fraud

R v. Shipley - VAT Fraud

R v. Cox & Strachan - VAT fraud Numerous other VAT frauds

Aircharter - fraud on holidaymakers advance payments

R v. Bridge & Rushton – Birmingham Crown Court the fraudulent export of poor quality whisky through Hong Kong and dipping into mainland China (to take advantage of the “grey” or “Parallel” market) then onwards to Taiwan under the guise of high quality whisky

R v. Howley insurance and development agency fraud £40,000,000 loss of VAT revenue on a missing trader fraud involving computer chips.

DRUGS

R v. Johnson main London cocaine importer involving "supergrass" evidence

R v Woodage importation of drugs through Dover and then to Wiltshire under the cover of the importation of flowers from Holland

Operation Rhythm - structural alteration of a cargo vessel whilst at anchor in Malta for the purpose of the carriage of a substantial quantity of drugs. She was also Maltese registered. Having been watched for some weeks she was seen to load with drugs and was intercepted by HM Navy and SBS personnel off the coast of Portugal.

R v Huck – briefed to prosecute a large quantity of drugs being brought up the Bay of Biscay by yacht ready to be discharged at The King Harry Ferry at Falmouth. The vessel was met mid Bay of Biscay by undercover customs officers who took the drugs leaving the Royal Navy to arrest the yachts crew. Thereafter the drugs were taken to meet the shore party who were also arrested.

R v. Gregory – importation of two large suitcases full of cocaine being imported from Cochabamba, Bolivia.

R v Adiguzel – importation of heroin by Turkish immigrants into London and then to Bristol

Operation Deride/Yardstick (R v. Richman) National Crime Squad – Swindon. Importation of drugs from Holland inside heavy electricity cable reels. The conspiracy was for the large scale weekly supply of drugs via Holland. Undercover Dutch police officers were involved.

MURDER, MANSLAUGHTER, RAPE etc

R v. Bell – Defence – Maidstone Crown Court. High profile murder involving the killing of a young woman in a car park at Tunbridge Wells after which she was placed in a suitcase and found 2 weeks later still within the car park. Unusual features: The defendant was tried before three separate juries, the first and second of which could not agree. An Abuse of Process application was made in an attempt to stop the third trial. The application was rejected. The Jury convicted on the third trial. The DPP’s discretion to go for a third trial formed the subject of appeal to the Court of Appeal.

R v. Robertson - the multiple rape of sisters

R v. Buffin and Meadows – manslaughter of an 84 year old woman by arson

R v. Miles Evans - murder of a child by the step father at Warminster Army base thereafter he placed her in a badger sett which caused much national publicity as the police searched for her body.

R v. O’Neil rape – briefed to defend

R v Casey Bowen briefed to defend murder

R v. Mills & Poole – the murder of a drug dealer by other suppliers within the drug community

R v. White - the attempted murder of a man and woman on an insurance fraud. They were tied up doused in petrol and set alight after which the car in which they had been placed was pushed over a cliff.

R v. Redhead and another one defendant cut off his father's head with a Japanese Samurai sword

R v Latimer a burglary murder

R v. Warburton murder

R v Ananthakamarasamy in double murder involving Tamil gangs in London

R v. Gabriel Taylor London gang shooting

R v Harrhy Rape Numerous other murder, attempted murder and rape cases.

UNUSUAL/MISCELLANEOUS

Manslaughter the pilot of a Hercules aircraft which had collided with a soldier who was performing specialist duties

R v. Brown – briefed to prosecute the driver of a coach on a day out with elderly persons from Chichester who fell asleep at the wheel causing multiple deaths

Advising on and Pursuing a civil fraud and corruption case in The Gambia. Many of the fraud cases set out involved the movement of the monies obtained into Money Exchanges, arms deals and in at least one case the purchase of diamonds from Angola.

Most importation of drug cases by sea involve the International Law of the Sea and the boarding of vessels whilst on the high seas by HM Navy, SBS and HMCE.

HEALTH & SAFETY

The importation of large volume low cost suites of leather furniture made in China which complied with the US regulations but failed in the UK.

The death of an employee whilst loading vehicles which were badly maintained.

Other Qualifications

Computer literate

Experienced in the electronic presentation of fraud and other cases with the use of computer based images.