A tip of the hat to the reader who sent in the bio of barrister Harry Potter of 25 Bedford Row.
Highlights of the superbly-named brief's CV include such cases as:
• A graduate of good character carrying out a number of robberies of women motivated by a long-standing shoe fetish.
• The murder of a bouncer in Deptford by the owner of two dogs, Colonel and Gaddafi. One of the dogs took part in the assault. After DNA proved it was Gaddafi, the judge ordered his execution.
• A murder case where the defendant stabbed an intruder who had already inflicted 93 separate injuries on himself in a drug induced frenzy. With the remote possibility of a life sentence for murder hanging over him, the defendant, on a totally artificial basis, pleaded to manslaughter on the grounds of provocation, when in fact he had acted in self-defence.
• Wounding in which an addict injected his partner causing necrotising fasciitis, resulting in the amputation of her leg.
• Attempted murder by a business man attempting to push another in front of a train.
• An alcohol diversion fraud allegedly planned by a solicitor while in prison for fraud, and executed by a probation officer and two former Metropolitan Police officers.
Harry is also a priest, and worked as a chaplain in the prison service for eight years. He has lectured on such topics as "Kipling, Rastafarians, the Death Penalty, Criminal Justice, Prisons and The Evil of Anatomy."
No wonder students are clamouring to join the bar...
Highlights of the superbly-named brief's CV include such cases as:
• A graduate of good character carrying out a number of robberies of women motivated by a long-standing shoe fetish.
• The murder of a bouncer in Deptford by the owner of two dogs, Colonel and Gaddafi. One of the dogs took part in the assault. After DNA proved it was Gaddafi, the judge ordered his execution.
• A murder case where the defendant stabbed an intruder who had already inflicted 93 separate injuries on himself in a drug induced frenzy. With the remote possibility of a life sentence for murder hanging over him, the defendant, on a totally artificial basis, pleaded to manslaughter on the grounds of provocation, when in fact he had acted in self-defence.
• Wounding in which an addict injected his partner causing necrotising fasciitis, resulting in the amputation of her leg.
• Attempted murder by a business man attempting to push another in front of a train.
• An alcohol diversion fraud allegedly planned by a solicitor while in prison for fraud, and executed by a probation officer and two former Metropolitan Police officers.
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Harry is also a priest, and worked as a chaplain in the prison service for eight years. He has lectured on such topics as "Kipling, Rastafarians, the Death Penalty, Criminal Justice, Prisons and The Evil of Anatomy."
No wonder students are clamouring to join the bar...
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