Thom has a busy practice prosecuting and defending serious crime, both as a leading junior and alone. He is ranked in the current edition of Chambers & Partners and is regularly instructed on complex or multi-handed cases involving issues of human rights and international law. Recent instructions include cases of homicide, terrorism, organised crime, human trafficking and modern slavery, drugs, firearms, and serious sexual offences.
He is a Grade 4 CPS panel advocate, a member of the specialist panels for the Serious Crime Group and the Rape and Serious Sexual Offences Unit, and is regularly instructed by the CPS Complex Casework Unit. In addition to prosecuting for the CPS, Thom has experience of bringing private prosecutions, and is adept at responding to the unique challenges arising in such cases.
Thom has particular experience in cases involving expert medical evidence and is an associate member of the Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians. He has experience of road traffic cases, whether instructed directly or through insurers, where death or serious injury has resulted.
Notable Cases
R v DE and others (2023)
Leading junior prosecuting eight defendants for their role in an organised crime group involving conspiracies to supply commercial quantities of cocaine and money laundering, as part of Operation Venetic.
R v TT (2022)
Successfully prosecuted the high-profile case of a neo-Nazi extremist who targeted prominent politicians, including Jeremy Corbyn MP, Dominic Grieve MP, Hilary Benn MP, and John Bercow MP, threatening them with “a white tsunami of hate and revenge”, as part of a sustained online campaign of virulently racist, anti-Semitic, and violent abuse.
R v IO and others (2022)
Led junior in the first ever prosecution under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 to involve the successful prosecution of nine defendants for their participation in an organised crime group which trafficked vulnerable young girls for the purposes carrying out of a fraud worth at least half a million pounds.
R v LB (2022)
Represented a defendant accused of attempting to murder his former partner. After a five-day trial involving complex medical expert evidence, the defendant was found not guilty of attempted murder.
R v RN (2021)
Operation Venetic prosecution involving a conspiracy to supply multi-kilo quantities of cocaine, a submachinegun, and automatic pistols, which took place over the EncroChat encrypted communications network. Defendant convicted.
R v AH and others (2021)
Led junior in the successful prosecution of a five-handed conspiracy to kidnap and rape. The first two defendants were convicted and received extended sentences of 20 years and 16 years respectively.
R v AH & DD (2020)
Represented the first defendant at his trial for attempted murder arising out of a revenge attack in Hounslow. The defendant was found not guilty of attempted murder by the jury.
R v BG (2020)
Represented a defendant accused of possession of a Skorpion submachinegun. The defendant was acquitted following Thom’s detailed analysis of DNA evidence relied upon by the prosecution.
R v LB (2019)
Prosecution of a family member for the historic sexual abuse of a child which occurred in the 1970s. Defendant convicted after trial.
R v CK and others (2019)
Led junior for the prosecution in two trials involving allegations of modern slavery by a criminal gang who had conspired to traffic Vietnamese youths across the English Channel.
R v TG (2018)
Represented a defendant accused of having defrauded nearly half a million pounds from his elderly mother. Acquitted at trial, after a cross-examination lasting three days.