Notable Cases
MURDER
One of Glenn’s many successes was his defence of a young man charged with murder and firearms offences following a lengthy retrial at the Old Bailey.
Glenn secured the acquittal of a young man accused of murder. His client was the only defendant acquitted of all charges he faced.
Glenn also successfully defended a father accused of murdering his daughter, and he successfully argued that there was no case to answer for a mother accused of being involved in a large-scale sex trafficking conspiracy.
More recently (last year), he was instructed as junior counsel in one of the most extensive murder trials in British history, lasting over nine months in Nottingham.
Since then, he has been instructed in one of the most infamous unsolved murder cases (the axe murder of Daniel Morgan in 1987). He was involved in extensive legal arguments regarding the abuse of process from suspected corrupt police operations, failure to disclose, secretion of evidence, and manipulation of informants. This resulted in acquittals after the prosecution conceded that the trial could not proceed safely.
Immediately after that, he secured the acquittal of a man charged with murder after proving by careful analysis of CCTV and telephone evidence that his client could not have been at the scene of the murder, such as to even amount to joint enterprise.
WAR CRIMES
When not in court, Glenn has spent considerable time advising clients and solicitors on alleged war crimes involving a variety of legal and human rights issues arising out of the Syrian crisis. This included complex jurisdictional issues and the procedure and jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
Serious crime
Glenn Harris has consistently been instructed in the most serious of criminal cases. As a junior, he was in the Heathrow armed robbery case, resulting in British legal history with the first Judge alone trial following suspected jury tampering.
He is currently in a trial defending the main defendant concerning the importation of 177kg of cocaine and over half a tonne of ketamine valued at over £33m.
His previous drug trial (late 2023) concerned a young man filmed on a mobile phone handling 14 kilos of packages of cocaine a couple of months before being caught in a lorry in which the Border Force discovered 14 kilos of cocaine. He was unanimously acquitted, with the defendant’s mum calling Mr Harris ‘a magician.’
SEXUAL OFFENCES
Glenn has considerable experience in sexual cases.
He has been instructed in a large-scale sexual exploitation (sex ring) case, resulting in the case being dismissed by the judge.
Two of his last three rape trials have resulted in acquittals. The convicted defendant did not help himself by absconding before trial.
The first was a knife point allegation of rape, and the latter was an alleged rape by a partner against a defendant with mental health issues.
He has even been asked in the past (in a case involving the gang rape of a 16year and receiving national press coverage) by the mother of a young co-defendant to defend her child on appeal – as she was so impressed by the way he represented the principal defendant.
