Kieran Vaughan

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Kieran specialises in criminal defence work and has gained vast experience in serious crime in the Crown Court, Court of Appeal and Courts Martial. Over the years he has represented defendants in many of the country's highest profile and serious cases.

During his career Kieran has gained vast experience in dealing with terrorist cases, both in England and N Ireland, including the following: The Omagh Bombing Trial, IRA conspiracy to cause explosions in England (R v Murphy and R v Crawley), Real IRA causing explosions (R v O'Connor), The Gatwick Grenade case (R v Rahaman-Allan).

Kieran has represented defendants in many serious organised crime cases involving murder, armed robbery, sex trafficking, money laundering, fraud and drugs importations. The following are a selection of those: R v Adams (money laundering and fraud), R v Green and R v O'Dell (underworld assassinations), R v Edwards (when it occurred the largest ever cash armed robbery in the UK), R v Fox (gold bullion robbery) firearm cases, R v Fillingham (at the time it was the largest ever single importation of cocaine into the UK), R v Hikmet (super grass case involving the importation of hundreds of kilos of heroin) and multi-million pound VAT frauds (operation Fajita 40 million pound fraud).

Due to the experience he has gained he has led the defence of individuals on very serious and complex matters from murder and attempted murder to multi-million pound drug conspiracies and armed robberies investigated by the Flying Squad.

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Criminal Bar Association and Critical Lawyers' Group.

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