Alejandra Llorente Tascon

Selected Cases

R v CD (2020) (Salisbury Crown Court)

Alejandra’s client, an ex-soldier, was facing section 20 GBH charges arising out of a fight in a pub.

Following a week-long trial, the thorough cross-examination of the 5 prosecution eye-witnesses and a confession by the Defendant at the police interview, Alejandra’s client was acquitted of all counts on the indictment.

R v AB (2020) (Bournemouth Crown Court)

Alejandra represented a Defendant charged with Perverting the Course of Justice by making a false allegation to the police to assist a friend with a fraudulent car insurance claim.
Following guilty pleas and Alejandra’s persuasive plea in mitigation, the Defendant was sentenced to a conditional discharge.

R v R (2019) (Hove Crown Court)

Following Alejandra’s vigorous cross-examination of the complainant, the judge stopped the case and R was acquitted of all counts on the indictment.

R was charged with section 18 wounding with intent to cause GBH and attempted section 18 wounding with intent to cause GBH. It was alleged that following a one-on-one fight with the complainant, R had stabbed the complainant in the face with a kitchen knife and attempted to throw hot oil over him.

R v H (2019) (Swindon Crown Court)

Alejandra represented H before the Crown Court at Swindon facing charges of sexual assault. It was alleged that H had followed a 15-year old girl on her way to school and while on a small and isolated road, H lifted up the complainant’s school skirt and touched her buttocks. The complainant picked out H in an ID parade and made various statements to the police describing the perpetrator. There were a number of other ID witnesses in this matter.

Following a finding of unfitness to plead and Alejandra’s robust challenging of the prosecution’s identification evidence, the jury returned Not Guilty verdicts.

R v SM (2019) (Swindon Crown Court)

Alejandra represented SM charged with 4 counts of making indecent images of children, 1 count of possessing a paedophile manual and 1 count of extreme pornography.

Following his guilty plea on all counts, Alejandra persuaded the judge to impose a suspended sentence despite the severity and extreme nature of the paedophile manual.

R v P (2019) (Southampton Crown Court)

Alejandra represented P at a 3 day trial for having a bladed article, namely a knife, and affray.

The Crown’s case was reliant on numerous eye witnesses and a bad character application for recent similar offences. After the successful exclusion of the bad character and the thorough cross-examination of the Crown’s witnesses, the jury acquitted P after 30 minutes of deliberations.

R v G (2019) (Salisbury Crown Court)

Following a two-day trial, Alejandra secured Not Guilty verdicts for her client who was charged with ABH arising out of a domestic relationship.

R v T & T (2019) (Bournemouth Crown Court)

Alejandra represented both defendants following guilty pleas to 12 counts of Theft and 1 count of fraud, following a string of ATM machine thefts nationwide amounting to £220k. Following her persuasive mitigation, the defendants were sentenced to 12 months in custody.

London Borough Council of Barking & Dagenham v AM & Others (2019) (Snaresbrook Crown Court)

Following a 3-week trial with four defendants, Alejandra’s client – the second defendant – was acquitted of offences under the perjury act.

R v BE (2018) (Inner London Crown Court)

Following a guilty plea, the defendant was sentenced to a 6-month custodial sentence for possession of false identity documents with improper intention despite the case law depicting a starting point of 12-18 months.