Defending the Innocent

Edward Henry KC C’80 has been in the headlines recently as the barrister representing Andy Malkinson, who was wrongfully convicted of rape and jailed in 2003. Having spent nearly 17 and a half years in prison for a crime he did not commit, last month Mr Malkinson was exonerated by the Court of Appeal by new DNA evidence with the judgment of the Court suggesting that he should never have been convicted in the first place because of police non-disclosure of exculpatory evidence at his 2004 trial.

Edward has dedicated his career to defending the most serious and high-profile crimes at all stages of the process, but particularly as fresh counsel in appeal proceedings, striving to overturn wrongful convictions, as in the case of Andy Malkinson’s miscarriage of justice.

After leaving Worth, Edward read History at Cambridge, was called to the Bar in 1988 and became a silk in 2018.  He now heads up the regulation department at Mountford Chambers and described as ‘a silk of huge intellect’ by his solicitor clients.