By John Hyde2021-02-08T21:00:00+00:00
Grocery delivery business Ocado has been granted permission to make a committal application against a solicitor who advised that potential evidence in litigation be destroyed.
Raymond John McKeeve, formerly a partner with City firm Jones Day, has admitted sending instructions to his clients’ IT manager to ‘burn it’ within minutes of being notified that an order for search of premises had been made against those clients.
In the High Court last year, Mr Justice Marcus Smith refused permission to Ocado to apply to commit McKeeve for contempt of court. Following a challenge in the Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Davis said in
By Press Association 2021
The Royal Courts of Justice, London (Ian Nicholson/PA)
The “predatory” killer of teenager Louise Smith will have his “unduly lenient” jail sentence for her murder reviewed by the Court of Appeal.
Shane Mays, 30, from Havant, Hampshire, lured the 16-year-old to a secluded spot in Havant Thicket on May 8 last year where he repeatedly punched her in the face, causing her fatal injuries.
He then defiled her with a stick before burning her body, which was found 13 days later following a major police search.
Mays was jailed for life, with a minimum term of 25 years, at Winchester Crown Court in December.