Cases of interest at the Old Bailey on Friday

Court 1 at 10am Preliminary hearing in the case of Nathan Dunn and two others accused of an attempted arson attack at the offices of a Persian language media organisation in north-west London.

Court 1 at 11am Application in the case of a 22 year old North London man in connection with a series of alleged plots targeting Pakistani dissidents in the UK,

Court 2 at 10am trial in the case of three Eastern European men accused of arson on properties related to PM Sir Kier Starmer.  A vehicle fire in Kentish Town, north London, a fire at the prime minister’s private home on the same street and a fire at an address that he previously lived in Islington, north London. The court heard a Russian paid them to do it.

Court 2 at 2.30pm Directions in the case of a UK Border Force officer and a Hong Kong trade official based in London, who have been found guilty of spying for China and surveilling dissidents through a “shadow policing” operation.

Court 6 at 9.45am Mention in the case of a 40 year old Simon Levy accused of murdering two women five months apart. Sheryl Wilkins, 39, who was found unresponsive in High Road, Tottenham, and Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo,53, who was found dead at a property on the Aylesbury estate in south-east London. He is also accused of rape.

Court 6 at 10am trial in the case of a 39 year old Turkish man, who allegedly shot Onur Guzel, 38, after accusing his family of paying money to a rival Turkish gang. The defendant is alleged to have plotted to kill the victim, who was attacked outside his father’s popular restaurant, Umut 2000, in Dalston, east London 

Court 6 at 10.15am Case management in the case of Muhammad Bham and two others charged with planning to commit an act of terrorism

Court 8 at 2pm Sentence of a 30 year old barman, who torched his girlfriend’s carpet using a ‘makeshift flamethrower’ and told her they would both die together.

Court 10 at 10am trial of two men accused of murder. Ahmed Jama, 29, was stabbed to death in St. John’s Wood, London NW.

Court 11 at 10am trial of a 33 year old man accused of murder. Halyna Holson, 29,was stabbed to death in a residental address in Greewich, London SE after the defendant allegedly found her with another man

Court 13 at 10am trial of two brothers accusesd of murdering a man 41 years ago as he walked home. Anthony Littler, 45, died from ‘catastrophic’ head injuries after he was found in an alleyway near East Finchley Tube station in north London on May 1, 1984.

Court 14 at 10am Mention of a 20 year old man, accused of murdering a 15 year old schoolboy in Islington, North London. Adam Henry was stabbed to death

Court 15 at 12 noon trial of Dwight Merrick accused of murder. Shaun Latimer-Kayser,44, was stabbed to death in Camden, North London

Court 16 at 10am trial in the case of a man in relation to the killing of Tanesha Melbourne-Blake,17, who was out with friends when she was shot from a Vauxhall people carrier in Tottenham, North London on 2 April 2018

Tours of and talks on Legal London: the Royal Courts of Justice, Old Bailey and the Inns of Court.

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