Andrew
Wilkins

Andrew has experience of Courts Martial, including allegations of GBH with intent, but is eager to gain more.

Andrew is interested in some of the less common criminal offences and has experience of cases including toy safety, unfair trading, planning and Air Navigation Order offences.

KS (2025) Warwick Crown – prosecuting at trial a man who received a 35-year extended sentence for historic sexual offences against a mother and more recent offences against her child

Balaceanu (2025) Warwick Crown Court – successful prosecuting people smuggler

L (2025) Warwick Crown Court – securing suspended sentence for “third strike” drug dealer with exceptional mitigation

H (2024) Wolverhampton Crown – defence junior in baby killing case – acquitted of murder, convicted of manslaughter

H (2024) Oxford Crown Court – securing “no separate penalty” in relation to historic sexual offences committed as a youth

G and others (2024) Worcester Crown Court – prosecuting 4-handed historic child sex abuse case (only 1 acquitted, who had been charged with a single incident)

Porter (2023) Leicester Magistrates – successful prosecution involving unlawful slaughter of pigs

Freeman (2023) Warwick Crown Court – successful prosecution of stalking fear with fear of violence involving complex phone and VPN evidence

Kirk (2023) – Wolverhampton Crown Court – defence junior in knifepoint murder

B (2022) Reading Crown Court – successful defence of a man with a history of violence and
psychosis who declined to attend part of his trial for attempted rape and other sexual offences

P (2022) Wolverhampton Crown Court, defending allegations of rape from 1971

H (2022) Warwick Crown Court- successfully defending allegations of modern slavery and drugs conspiracy

W (2022) Worcester Crown Court – negotiating appropriate pleas and securing suspended sentence for woman accused of £20k elder fraud

Millard (2022) Court of Appeal – appealing sentence and conviction in serious familial sexual offences following s28 procedure

Turner & Hems (2022) Worcester Crown Court- successfully prosecuting s18 GBH in prison environment

C (2021) Warwick Crown Court – securing non-custodial disposal for man accused of violent disorder

S (2021) Birmingham Crown Court – defending in firearm case prosecuted by leading counsel

H (2021) Wolverhampton Crown Court -defending in armed robbery of pawnbrokers

Blackwell (2021) Hereford Crown Court – successful prosecution of bomb hoax

Bowket (2021) Birmingham Crown Court – successful prosecution of cyberstalking and cyberflashing case, resulting in lengthy extended prison sentence

Other reported cases

Lee Lloyd [2025] EWCA Crim 1274 – appeal sentence for industrial quantities of Class C drugs

McDonagh (Patrick) [2024] EWCA Crim 1199 – appeal sentence where previous convictions were said to aggravate handling stolen goods

Thompson (Ricky) [2024] EWCA Crim 1146 – successfully appealing terminatory rulings based on a judge’s finding that touching below the knee could not be sexual and that an inconsistent young complainant was not worthy of belief

R. v Griffiths (Luke Benjamin) [2024] EWCA Crim 1092 – appeal sentence on the basis of disparity

Tressler (Sean James) [2024] EWCA Crim 561 – successful appeal sentence for unlawful imprisonment

Johnson (Grant Dennis) [2023] EWCA Crim 1609 – appeal sentence on whether an extended sentence could be passed for a burglary in which grievous bodily harm was inflicted

Banaras (Abdul) [2023] EWCA Crim 593 – appeal sentence for a prohibited firearm said to have been possessed only momentarily

R v Edwards (Leroy) [2022] EWCA Crim 1436 – achieving greater credit for pleas to alternative offences initially rejected

R v Prota (Luigi) [2022] EWCA Crim 605 – reducing sentence for failures to attend

R v Tyler [2020] EWCA Crim 747 – on totality in burglary sentencing

R v Dixon (Alan Richard) [2019] EWCA Crim 2481 – on totality and blades

R v BCD [2018] EWCA Crim 2261 – reducing sentence in relation to rape in a coercive setting

R v Ball [2018] EWCA Crim 2261 – successfully appealing the sentence of a young man found to be dangerous because he was autistic

R v C, E, I, F [2014] EWCA Crim 1483 – successfully appealing the conviction of an individual trafficked from Austria

R v Adedini [2012] EWCA Crim 926 – reducing sentence on an overstayer using a false passport

R v Oniya [2012] EWCA Crim 2883 – reducing sentence for false identification documents

R v Angus St John Wilson [2009] EWCA Crim 557 – successfully appealing an extended sentence over 2.5years out of time (only instructed for the appeal)

R v Groves [2008] EWCA Crim 1110 – successfully resisting an appeal against sentence for drugs offences

R v Christopher John Doughan [2007] EWCA Crim 598 – successfully resisting an appeal against for breach of ASBO.

R v McGrath [2005] EWCA Crim 353 – successfully appealing the terms of an ASBO imposed for theft

R v Tekhliq Khalique [2005] EWCA Crim 3109 – on alibi directions

Shergill v Harrow Crown Court [2005] EWHC 648 (Admin) – the High Court case that first stated that Crown Court reasons in bail decisions should be recorded

Criminal Bar Association

• Mowat Law Exhibitioner (Trinity College, Oxford)
• Hardwicke Scholar (Lincoln’s Inn)

Formerly a pentathlete, Andrew enjoys swimming, especially outdoors, and competed in the European Masters 5km Open Water event (Lake Bled, 2018) and swam the 7 miles from Sealand to shore solo solo in 2025.