Tony Meisels

Partner specialising in serious crime. Significant recent cases include R v Nicky Jacobs which concerned the murder of PC Keith Blakelock during the Broadwater Farm Riots in October 1985. In April 2014, Jacobs was acquitted after a trial in which the Crown primarily relied on the tainted evidence of three eye witnesses two of whom had confessed to their role in the murder but had been granted immunity from prosecution. This was the first and only prosecution for PC Blakelock’s murder since the freeing of the Tottenham 3 by the Court of Appeal in 1991. In another recent case a police witness liaison officer was successfully defended where she herself was accused of intimidation of a witness. A particular area of expertise is historic sex offences and child and extreme pornography cases. Higher rights advocate since 2006.