PRACTICE AREAS
Patricia Lloyd
Year of Call:
1979
Memberships:
Criminal Bar Association, Herts & Beds Bar Mess
Areas of Practice:
Criminal Defence, particularly on the South Eastern Circuit.
Patricia has extensive experience in all areas of serious crime, particularly violence and sexual offences as junior and leading junior.
Examples of some of Patricia's recent cases include:
Murder: led in several multi-handed murder cases, most recently a 5-handed 10-week long trial. She was also instructed in a 25-handed Chinese "snakehead" conspiracy to murder trial.
Threats to kill: Patricia was recently instructed to represent a young mother who threatened to kill her 4-month old baby with a knife.
Aggravated burglary: she has represented teenagers in several multi headers where victims sustained life threatening injuries.
Conspiracy to supply firearms: multi-hander involving supply of firearms to criminals (R. v. Ivor Jones: leading authority on s.16 of Firearms Act).
GBH: Patricia secured the acquittal of a defendant with mental health problems, facing mandatory life sentence.
Sexual offences: Patricia has appeared as leading junior in several child rape cases. She is particularly experienced in examination of medical, psychiatric and other expert witnesses, and examination of unreliable witnesses, especially young children.
Child rape: She was instructed as leading junior in a 12-count indictment alleging rape by man, with a low IQ, of his young son. This involved a fitness to plead hearing. Patricia was recently instructed as leading junior in the trial of a husband and wife accused of the rape of a 5-year old girl, and sexual abuse of her siblings.
She regularly represents defendants accused of the rape and abuse of family members, including a 58-year old accused of rape of his 13-year old step granddaughter, a male accused of raping his sisters, a 76-year old charged with serious abuse of his grandchildren, and rape of a psychiatric patient.
In addition, Patricia has conducted numerous trials involving the sexual abuse of several victims, historical allegations, gross indecency, and internet pornography.
Kidnapping: She has been instructed in several Chinese multi-handers involving "snakehead" gangs, including a 5-month, 14-hander organised crime group investigation, with seven victims, blackmail and false imprisonment. Patricia also represented a defendant accused of the knifepoint abduction of a young woman in her own car.
Drugs: Patricia defended in a 14-hander conspiracy to import and supply 14 kg of cocaine, and an 8-hander conspiracy to supply heroin.
Blackmail: She represented a defendant accused of having threatened to poison county's water supply (£250,000).
Patricia also has extensive experience of cases involving allegations of causing death by dangerous driving, car-ringing, violent disorder and arson. She has also been instructed in a number of cases involving fitness to plead issues and clients with serious mental health issues. She represented a patient at Broadmoor accused of GBH, and represented another man who was severely mentally impaired accused of sexual abuse of a child. A voluntary care plan with the local authority was successfully negotiated and the case left on the file.
