Martin Goudie

Year of Call: 1996 LLB (Exeter)
Affiliations: Criminal Bar Association, International Bar Association, South Eastern Circuit, Justice
Specialist Areas: General Crime, Serious Crime, Homicide, Serious Violent Offences, Firearms, Large Drugs Related Offences, Terrorism, Special Advocate/Counsel work, Sexual Offences, Confiscation, Restraint & Asset Recovery Proceedings, Serious Fraud & White Collar Crime, MTIC Fraud , Commercial Crime, Money Laundering, Social Security Offences, Regulatory & Compliance Work, Health & Safety, Police Disciplinary Tribunals, Corner’s Inquests, Courts Martial, Appellate Work

Biography Cases

Instructed to prosecute four Defendants for blackmail and sexual offending against a mother and her two daughters. The victims were conditioned to live in a climate of fear, follow orders, assault each other, hand over the majority of their money and have their wages paid into a Defendant's bank account. As part of the offending the mother and one of her daughters were forced to perform sexual acts on each other.

 

Instructed as junior counsel for the Defence in a long running and large scale ILA fraud. Significant disclosure issues arose out of the role of the Department for Education and Skills in this matter, the legal advice they had received and the findings of a House of Commons Committee into the collapse of the ILA scheme.

R – v – Yassin-Noor and others
Junior counsel for the Crown in the prosecution at the Central Criminal Court of seven members of the Ferrier Gang for the attempted murder of a university student who had confronted the gang after his brothers had been robbed by the gang on two separate occasions.

R - v - Christopher Kendrick
Instructed to prosecute Mr. Kendrick on three separate indictments for attempted murder, wounding with intent and robbery. All were committed within two months of him being released from a previous sentence. The attempted murder was complicated by the fact that the victim could remember little, had a history of drug abuse and had a significant amount of previous convictions for dishonesty and violence.

R - v - Roger Vincent and others
Instructed as junior counsel for Roger Vincent. A huge investigation commenced following the murder of a notorious gangster in Hertfordshire with an AK-47, the first time one was used in the mainland United Kingdom. The investigation gave rise to a lengthy trial where Roger Vincent was alleged to be the gunman. The trial was complicated by the Crown’s wish to place Mr. Vincent’s previous acquittals for murder before the jury. Various individuals in a number of countries are still being sought by the police.

R – v – Anwar Ibrahim and others
Instructed as junior counsel for the Crown. This case followed an eighteen-month investigation into car jacking, car ringing, theft and insurance fraud by a number of individuals in Ilford. The case involved close liaison with the fraud investigation departments of a number of large insurance companies and has lead to them changing their procedures for the investigation of such matters.

R – v – Darshan Gill and others
Instructed as junior counsel for Darshan Gill. Mr. Gill was part of a group accused of organizing fake marriages on a large scale. Vulnerable women would be married to Indian males so that they could gain the right to remain in the United Kingdom.  If the women tried to back out they were threatened with rape and left in India without their passports or any means to survive.

 

Instructed as junior counsel for Khurshid Faruq. Mrs Faruq and her family were involved in the circumventing of the immigration laws by assisting members of their family to claim incorrectly that they were from war torn areas of Afghanistan or Pakistan so that they could then claim asylum and related benefits on arrival in the UK. The Crown sought confiscation orders in excess of £24 million. 

 

Instructed as junior counsel for Glen Cornwall. Mr. Cornwall was arrested after his girlfriend alleged that he had falsely imprisoned her for nearly two weeks. During this time she said he kept her naked in a wicker basket, raped her and physically assaulted her on numerous occasions. The case was complicated by the fact that Mr. Cornwall’s previous two girlfriends had made similar allegations against him, but these allegations had not lead to convictions.

 

Instructed as junior counsel for Glynn Atkinson. This case related to large number of serious post office robberies in which a gang held rural post office owners and their families at gun point, gagged and bound overnight whilst waiting for time locks on safes to be released. There were substantial issues of disclosure as a rival gang had been convicted and escaped from custody to then commit similar attacks around the North of England during the period of the allegations against Mr. Atkinson.