Barry White

RECENT CASES:

• R v. W (2025) – Defendant accused of double stranger rape. Issues included identification and the limitations of radio frequency propagation evidence. Acquitted after trial.
• R v. P (2025) – Managed to avoid immediate custody for a man with significant learning disabilities who had sexually abused 2 of his nieces over a period of years.
• R v. K (2025) – Defendant accused of gang-related aggravated burglary with weapons of offence including machetes and shotgun.
• R v. C (2024) – Defendant accused of aggravated burglary – said to have entered a property and stole money at knifepoint. Acquitted after trial. The basis of the defence was that what was stolen was drugs and no knife was used.
• R v. D (2024) – Defendant, serving soldier, accused of controlling / coercive behaviour and rape in the context of a relationship – acquitted after trial.
• R v. B (2024) – Defendant, young man of good character, accused of raping his girlfriend – acquitted after trial.
• R v. O’C (2023) – Young man with mental health and polysubstance abuse issues set fire to a chip-shop with a flat above – charged with arson being reckless. Managed to avoid either an immediate custodial sentence or a hospital order.
• R v. B (2023) – Defendant accused of repeatedly sexually abusing a child whilst his wife was acting as their childminder – acquitted after trial.
• R v. R (2023) – Defendant accused of raping his niece – acquitted after trial.
• R v. P (2023) – Defendant who had accepted domestic violence and controlling or coercive behaviour on his ex-partner acquitted after trial of 2 counts of rape on the same partner.
• R v. P (2022) – (led junior) Successful acquittal on a murder charge for a member of motorcycle club who had herded a member of a rival club to a position where he was knocked off his bike and killed.
• R v. K (2022) – Defendant accused of numerous offences including PWITS, violence, modern slavery and possession of handguns and ammunition. Acquittal following trial.
• R v H (2021) — The defendant stabbed a man to the neck causing life-changing injuries. He was charged with a s.18. Barry successfully defended him to acquittal on the basis that he had acted, at all times, in self-defence,
• R v K (2021) — The Defendant was charged with the rape of his partner, who alleged he was also controlling and coercive. When interviewed by the police, he confessed to the rape. At trial, the defence case was put on the basis that the confession was, in fact, made at the complainant’s behest and social media interactions between the two showed that it was the complainant who was coercive and controlling. Defendant acquitted.
• R v H (2021) — Defendant charged with multiple rapes and sexual offences on nine complainants over a 30-year time-period. Barry was the led junior, although dealt with the cross-examination of four of the complainants. Four week trial.
• R v V (2021) – Barry represented the lead defendant in a multi-handed drugs conspiracy, where the defendants were moving multiple kilograms of cocaine from the south-east into Devon over an extended period.
• R v McG (2021) — Barry represented one of three defendants charged in a multi-million pound fraud and trading standards case relating to solar panels, appropriate registration and the provision of feed-in tariffs.
• R v H (2020) — Father and son charged with s.18. Their neighbour, with whom there had been a long running feud, had been beaten so badly that he sustained a Lefort II frature pattern to the bones of his face. Barry defended the father successfully.
• R v B (2020) – Barry represented the defendant, who was acquitted by a jury, of raping his natural daughter some 30 years previously. Difficult issues relating to brain injuries and alcoholism.