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Crispin Aylett KC KC
Position
Crispin Aylett is a practitioner with a wealth of experience in all areas of criminal law, including fraud. Since leaving Treasury Counsel’s Room in December 2013, he has continued to prosecute at the Old Bailey while also defending in cases of murder, terrorism and historic sexual abuse. He was appointed Senior Treasury Counsel at the Central Criminal Court in 2006 following five years as Junior Treasury Counsel. Over the years he has been instructed on some of the most grave and high profile murder cases of the day, some of which include: The murder of Sarah Payne; the so-called ‘Camden Ripper’; R v Ali Dizaei; the murder of the Chohan family; R v Barrett (the fatal stabbing of a cyclist in Richmond Park by a schizophrenic who had discharged himself from a psychiatric hospital); the re-trials of Sion Jenkins; R v Morgan & Vincent (prosecution for murder of members of the So-Solid Crew); R v Pickford & Walker (the kicking to death of a gay man on Clapham Common); R v Mir & others (the murder of two brothers in Tooting); the murder of Jimmy Mizen; R v Sonnex & Farmer (the murders of the two French students); the so-called ‘Bride in the Burkha’; R v Dighton (killing of a headmaster and his wife by their son); R v Ross & St. Aubin (murder outside Wandsworth prison by public schoolboy gangster); R v Jeffrey and others (execution of nightclub doorman).
Career
Called 1985; Silk 2008, Inner Temple. Enforcement Tribunal, Lloyd’s of London.
Education
Dulwich College; Bristol University (BA (Hons) English Literature); City University (Dip. Law.)
Leisure
Born 1961, resides London.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Business and regulatory crime (including global investigations)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Crispin Aylett KC – QEB Hollis Whiteman ‘Exceptionally able. Has great business acumen and is a formidable performer in court.’
London Bar > Crime
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Crispin Aylett KC –QEB Hollis Whiteman ‘Crispin turns his hand to anything with exceptional skill. He is probably the finest jury advocate of his generation.’
QEB Hollis Whiteman has an established reputation as ‘one of the best sets out there that is packed with excellence from top to bottom‘. Crispin Aylett KC led the prosecution of several individuals charged with the abduction, torture and murder of well-known Turkish DJ, Koray Alpergin, kidnapped in Tottenham alongside his girlfriend over money he owed. Jocelyn Ledward KC took silk in April 2024. Ali Bajwa KC’s broad practice covers major murder and sexual offences cases. Philip Stott prosecuted former barrister Henry Hendron, who was convicted of encouraging the commission of offences, namely seeking to purchase methamphetamine from clients themselves facing drugs charges – Hendron was imprisoned for fourteen months, and in separate disciplinary proceedings subsequently disbarred.