Jeremy Sydney Dein, KC (born 29 June 1960) is an English

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specialising in

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Career

Jeremy Dein was called to the Bar in 1982 and took Silk in 2003. He was appointed a Recorder on 2004. He became an Old Bailey recorder in 2016. Dein is listed in Band 1 Chambers directory, and Legal 500, in Criminal Silks 2017. He is former Criminal Bar Association Director of education and has written and lectured in the UK, and internationally on criminal defence. He has conducted many homicide trials, predominantly at the

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. He practices from and is Joint Head of 25 Bedford Row Chambers. He acted for

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's husband on serious charges. He also defended

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, MP for

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on charges of assault in the

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. In 2013 he defended Tony McCluskie who murdered and dismembered

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, his sister and a former

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actor. In 2015, Dein represented

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on charges of being involved in the supply of cocaine.

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, the “Fake Sheikh” at the centre of the ''Sun on Sunday'' sting was suspended and was later jailed for tampering with evidence. In 2018 he advocated for

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to be released from prison over his contempt of court conviction due to "procedural deficiencies" during the trial.

''Murder, Mystery and My Family''

Along with

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, KC, Dein appears in the

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series ''

Murder, Mystery and My Family ''Murder, Mystery and My Family'' is a BBC One series featuring Sasha Wass KC and Jeremy Dein KC., which examines historic criminal convictions resulting in the death penalty in order to determine if any of them resulted in a miscarriage of ...

'' (2018-2019), which examines historic criminal cases in order to determine if any of them resulted in a

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. Their submissions - Dein for the "defence" and Wass for the "prosecution" are then presented to Judge David Radford, who considers whether there are grounds to consider the convictions as being unsafe. Cases featured include those of Edward Devlin and Alfred Burns,

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, Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters, and Herbert John Bennett.

Personal life

Dein was born in Bow, in

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and grew up in Redbridge. He graduated from

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in 1981. He is the first cousin of former

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chairman

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dein, Jeremy 1960 births Living people English King's Counsel English Jews Alumni of Queen Mary University of London People from Bow, London English barristers 20th-century English lawyers 21st-century British lawyers Members of the Middle Temple