Jodie has broad experience in all areas of criminal law with a particular focus on organised crime. She is regularly instructed in cases involving large scale drug supply, complex fraud, violence, dishonesty and offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

Jodie has undertaken secondments with the Financial Conduct Authority and the Serious Fraud Office where she gained significant experience in alleged breaches of the Financial Service and Marketing Act 2000 and worked on the extensive investigations into LIBOR and EURIBOR manipulation.

In addition Jodie has also been seconded to the UK Borders Agency where she gained a detailed understanding of cases involving the importation and exportation of drugs and other prohibited items.

Jodie speaks both Spanish and French.

Notable Cases:

R v SN – Operation Fjord-Mike – (Sheffield Crown Court) – junior counsel for the first defendant charged, alongside three others, with murder.

R v YB – Operation Carnival – (Inner London Crown Court) – conspiracy to commit fraud and money-laundering offences arising out of a large scale travel-card fraud committed against TfL with an estimated potential loss of £19.7m.

R v AA – Operation Halmist – (Blackfriars Crown Court) – junior counsel for the first defendant, a well-known musician, alleged to have been the head of a large county lines drug dealing operation between London, Kent and Essex. Case involved extensive telephone and cell-site data, alleged gang association and reliance by the Prosecution on the interpretation of lyrics from the defendant’s own songs.

R v JR – Operation Horizon – (Preston Crown Court) – counsel for defendant alleged to have been involved in county lines drug dealing case running from the Midlands to Barrow-in-Furness.

R v JR – (Woolwich Crown Court) – defendant charged with possession of variety of firearms including sawn-off shotgun. Case involved extensive analysis of DNA evidence.

R v ES – Operation Midas – (Cardiff Crown Court) – junior counsel in case involving allegations of fraudulent trading arising out of alleged multi-million pound misallocation of grant funding from the Welsh Assembly.

R v KS – (St Albans Crown Court) – counsel for defendant charged with s.18 where vulnerable complainant alleged to have been seriously assaulted and held hostage whilst injured in his own home.

R v KS – Operation Dynasty – (Leicester Crown Court) – junior counsel in a case involving false imprisonment and manslaughter arising out of an alleged ‘Black Money’ fraud. Trial involved pathology, extensive telephone/cell-site evidence and voice recognition.

R v WH – (St Albans Crown Court) – junior counsel led by QC in multi-handed conspiracy to murder and firearms trial lasting 3 months. Case involved significant telephone and cell-site evidence, expert firearms evidence to do with cartridge wadding and firearms discharge residue and legal argument over purported gang association.

R v GW – Operation Action (Blackfriars Crown Court)- counsel for the first defendant in a conspiracy to defraud various train operating companies over a period of 5 years through the ‘Delay Repay’ scheme and the onward laundering of the proceeds. Case involved significant telephone call data and banking evidence.

R v AH – Operation Tarlac (Leicester Crown Court)- junior counsel for the first defendant in a case involving a conspiracy to defraud the National Health Service and various local authorities across the country of in excess of £12m. The proceeds of the fraud were then alleged to have been laundered out of the jurisdiction and invested in various enterprises and companies across the Middle East.

R v CM – Operation Petral (Manchester Crown Court) – junior counsel for the first defendant in a large scale conspiracy to supply cocaine across the North of England. Case involved the analysis of extensive telephone call data records and cell site evidence (over 100,000 pages) at very short notice together with the analysis of further evidence and disclosure served during the course of the trial.
R v TM (Basildon Crown Court) – Led junior in case involving conspiracy to facilitate the breach of immigration law. Representing the driver of a container shipped into the UK in which 35 refugees were found, one of whom had died in transit.

http://www.itv.com/news/2015-06-09/four-on-trial-over-human-trafficking-into-tilbury-docks/

R v BD (Central Criminal Court) – Led junior for the first defendant in Operation Heatful, a large scale conspiracy to supply cocaine in which it was alleged that the defendant was the organiser in relation to large scale importations of drugs from Albania and their onward supply within the UK.

R v UB (Reading Crown Court) – Junior alone for the first defendant in a case in which the Prosecution alleged that the defendant was involved in the supply of over 50kgs of cocaine.

R v JM (Wood Green Crown Court) – represented one of three defendants charged with aggravated burglary involving the use of firearms and a loaded sawn-off shotgun.

R v EB (Blackfriars Crown Court) – represented the first of 5 defendants charged with knife-point robbery during the course of which the complainant was stabbed.

R v RP (Basildon Crown Court) – represented the first defendant in a case in which it was alleged that the defendant had slashed his uncle to the face using a large knife.

R v VS (Winchester Crown Court) – Led junior for the first defendant in a trial in which it was alleged that the complainant had been kidnapped and held hostage on an industrial estate for a number of days whilst ransom demands were made of his friends and family.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24902501

Court of Appeal

R v Elijah King [2020] WLUK 535 – successful appeal against sentence in a case involving multiple counts of distraction burglary in which elderly victims were targeted.

R v Wayne Holness [2019] EWCA Crim 1887/[2019] 10 WLUK 617 – successful appeal against sentence in case relating to conspiracy to murder and cannabis supply.

R v David Richards [2014] EWCA Crim 1302 – instructed for the Prosecution at appeal stage only in order to resist an appeal by the defence against a confiscation order and costs imposed after a full confiscation hearing which lasted in excess of 10 days.

R v Ernest Brinkley [2013] EWCA Crim 760 – Successful appeal against sentence in a case relating to the mandatory minimum term sentence imposed for dwelling burglaries. Commended by Lord Justice Davis for advocacy. Case cited in Blackstones.

R v Saunders [2011] EWCA Crim 12 – Successful appeal against sentence in a case in which the Appellant had pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice having falsely admitted to a crime that had been committed by his father.