5KBW fields ‘barristers of the highest quality who deal with high profile cases on a regular basis’. James Brown KC took silk in 2025 - he prosecuted a case involving the importation of 70kg of cocaine and 632kg of ketamine. Mark Heywood KC prosecuted Daniel Khalife, a then-serving British soldier who spied for Iran, while on remand, escaped from HMP Wandsworth. Jonathan Higgs KC prosecuted a man for murdering his wife then storing her remains in the attic. Catherine Farrelly KC prosecuted Zhenhao Zou, a PhD student who was sentenced to life imprisonment for drugging and raping ten women (only two of whom were traced), filming his attacks in both the UK and mainland China; Zou is thought by police to have had as many as fifty further victims.
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