Hired Killer in UK Law

  • R v Hayter (Paul Ali)
    • House of Lords
    • 03 Fevereiro 2005
    ... ... The third accused (Ryan) was the killer who actually shot and killed the husband of the first defendant. The ... the account of roles of the wife determined to kill her husband, the hired gunman, and the middleman, which the jury must have accepted are ... ...
  • Simon and Others v Lyder and another
    • Privy Council
    • 29 Julho 2019
    ... ... unidentified) with a view to obtaining revenge against the supposed killer of a well-known female drugs dealer with whom he was connected, and that ... Scott's dog was shot by a person who later claimed that he had been hired to assassinate Mr Scott, who had previously been in a homosexual ... ...
  • Appeal Against Conviction And Sentence By Mohammed Abboud Against Her Majesty's Advocate
    • High Court of Justiciary
    ... ... that an example of a deliberate intention to kill was “the hired assassin who goes with a loaded shotgun and deliberately shoots at someone ... it would be likely to have for the jury, relates to a hired killer, which was clearly the context in which the trial judge was using it ... ...
  • MK (Lesbians)
    • Asylum and Immigration Tribunal
    • 26 Novembro 2008
    ... ... The appellant hired a travel agent to book a flight to the United Kingdom and also arrange a ... killing through her brother (possibly with the help of a hired killer) could not be excluded, but it was not as likely for someone from a Tirana ... ...
  • FS Cairo (Nile Plaza) LLC v Brownlie (as Dependant and Executrix of Professor Sir Ian Brownlie CBE QC) (Respondent
    • Supreme Court
    • 20 Outubro 2021
  • John v The State of Trinidad & Tobago (Trinidad & Tobago)
    • Privy Council
    • 16 Março 2009
    ... ... to the Club on 27 November when, he told the jury, the appellant had hired him and had been the front seat passenger affording him ample opportunity ... telling the truth, he was altogether better placed to know who the killer was than Claudette (the first to be shot and seeing the gunmen for moments ... ...
  • Upper Tribunal (Immigration and asylum chamber), 2009-09-09, [2009] UKAIT 36 (MK (Lesbians))
    • Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
    ... ... The appellant hired a travel agent to book a flight to the United ... Kingdom and also ... her brother (possibly with the help of a hired killer) could not be ... excluded, but it was not as likely for someone from a ... ...
  • R v Mohammed Ali
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 22 Abril 2015
    ... ... Plainly that was so. Best was a contract killer ... 21 In R v Height and Anderson [2009] 1 Cr App ... the contract killer but a 15 year starting point for the husband who hired him. A five judge court headed by Lord Judge CJ at paragraph 30 criticised ... ...
  • R Gambrah v Crown Prosecution Service
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 18 Julho 2013
    ... ... 2007 at the time of the shooting of Darren Danso; third, that he hired a car used by the person who shot Darren Danso, a white Hyundai Accent car ... that eye witnesses to the shooting identified the claimant as the killer. In fact, one of the witnesses said that, given the opportunity, she ... ...
  • Terence Thornton
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 27 Abril 1993
    ... ... 5 The case for the Crown was that the appellant hired Caunt to kill Eileen Caulton. Caunt was in fact a con man posing as a essional killer. It was initially his aim to get money from the appellant and disappear ... ...
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