Millennium Chambers is pleased to report a successful outcome secured by Kira Chana in a county lines drugs prosecution, in which the defendant was acquitted by the jury at Lewes Crown Court following a significant challenge to the integrity of the prosecution’s telephone evidence.
Kira Chana represented the first defendant in a trial concerning county lines drug supply. The prosecution’s case relied substantially on phone evidence and covert surveillance material. In the course of preparing the defence, Kira identified a series of errors within the prosecution’s phone bundle that raised serious concerns about the reliability of the data presented.
On closer examination, it emerged that the prosecution’s analyst had manually manipulated the data within the phone bundle. This called into question the accuracy of the telephone evidence as a whole. The jury, having considered the evidence, returned not guilty verdicts in the defendant’s favour.
This case illustrates the importance of rigorous scrutiny of digital and forensic evidence in complex criminal proceedings. The outcome was the result of careful case preparation and sustained attention to the technical detail underpinning the prosecution’s case.
Kira Chana was instructed by Mahesh at Pillai and Jones.
