Crispin Aylett

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).

Dulwich College; Bristol University (BA (Hons) English Literature); City University (Dip. Law.)