Kieran Brand

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Education

Law LLB (Hons)

Appointments

Appointed RASSO Panel Advocate

Grade 3 CPS Panel Advocate (London and South East)

Memberships

• Criminal Bar Association
• South East Circuit

Notable Cases

Homicide
R v SM [2026] – Led by Danny Moore KC acting for the first of three defendants acquitted of the murder of a 49-year-old man on the Isle of Sheppey in August 2025. The prosecution case was that the defendants lured the victim, who they believed to be a paedophile, to a beach where he was attacked and subsequently died.
R v RG [2026] – Defending a man charged with the murder of a neighbour following an earlier dispute. The defendant pleaded guilty to manslaughter which was ultimately accepted by the prosecution.
R v KE [2025] – Defending a man alleged to be a member of South London gang “The Peckham Boys” acquitted of the attempted murder of a member of a rival gang who had travelled into the wrong part of London and been shot 3 times at near point-blank range.
R v KH [2024] – Defending a man alleged to have attempted to murder the victim by stabbing him to the chest using a machete.
R v TH [2023] – Defending a 16-year-old girl with significant learning difficulties alleged to have been involved in the attempted murder (by stabbing) of two members of a rival gang.

Sexual Offences
R v SM [2026] – Defending a man acquitted of the repeated assault-by-penetration, sexual assault and blackmail of his former partner. The case involved a successful s.41 application relating to sexualised messages between the complainant and defendant and a successful bad character application relating to lies she had told about their respective drug use.
R v AC [2026] – Defending a man alleged to have repeatedly raped his teenage stepdaughter. The case involved a successful s.41 application relating to the complainant’s sexual behaviour with others during the indictment period.
R v SB [2025] – Prosecuting a man charged with the rape of two extremely drunk teenage girls who had asked him for a cigarette while they walking the streets drinking alcohol.
R v MH [2025] – Defending a man acquitted of raping his former partner after stalking her for several weeks following the end of their relationship.
R v GPW [2025] – Defending a man with significant learning difficulties alleged to have repeatedly raped his niece when she was aged between 7 and 10 years.
R v MP [2025] – Defending a man acquitted of repeatedly sexually assaulting (including by penetration) his former partner following the end of their relationship.
R v AR [2025] – Defending a man alleged to have raped a woman he had met on Tinder.
R v MC [2025] – Defending a man alleged to have raped his teenage stepdaughter.
R v CM [2025] – Defending a man alleged to have raped a girl after she had passed out at a house party.
R v AR [2025] – Defending a man acquitted of the rape of a girl at house party. The case was made more challenging by the fact that the jury heard that the defendant had a conviction for an almost identical offence committed within a few months of the present offence.
R v QM [2025] – Defending a Muslim Imam alleged to have sexually abused children who attended his Mosque.
R v AV [2025] – Prosecuting a man alleged to have raped his daughter in the 1970s when she was aged 9 to 10 years.
R v AH [2024] – Prosecuting a man alleged to have raped a vulnerable homeless woman after she had been plied with alcohol and crack cocaine at a house party.
R v WT [2024] – Defending a man alleged to have historically raped and seriously sexually abused his daughters and stepdaughter.
R v SG [2024] – Defending a man assessed as being in the 0.2nd percentile for IQ alleged to have raped and sexually assaulted children aged between 4 and 8 years.
R v DK [2024] – Defending a man alleged to have raped his former partner.
R v AH [2024] – Defending a man alleged to have historically sexually assaulted his infant daughter.
R v PW [2024] – Defending a man alleged to have sexually assaulted a 7-year-old child.
R v MM [2024] – Defending a man alleged to have historically assaulted a 4-year-old child he babysat in the early 1990s.
R v A and W [2024] Prosecution of two voyeurs convicted of filming friends, family and work colleagues as they changed and used the toilet in their home.
R v AY [2024] – Defending a man alleged to have sexually assaulted his stepdaughters.
R v DR [2023] – Defending a man alleged to have sexually assaulted the 13-year-old daughter of a family friend.
R v DT [2023] – Defending a man alleged to have raped his stepdaughters.
Op Junction [2023] – Led by Alan Gardner KC (23 Essex Street) prosecuting defendants alleged to have historically raped and sexually assaulted girls aged 13 to 15 in the early 2000s.
R v FG [2023] – Defending a man alleged to have raped his female cousin.
R v CR [2023] – Defending a man with significant learning difficulties alleged to have historically sexually assaulted a 10-year-old child.
R v PW [2023] – Defending a man alleged to have repeatedly sexually assaulted and raped a drunk women after he posed as a taxi-driver and picked her up on the roadside.
R v MP [2023] – Defending a man alleged to have exposed his penis to a child in a playground.
R v HW [2022] – Defending a homosexual man acquitted of sexually assaulting a heterosexual man at a house-party.
R v CR [2022] – Defending a man with a split personality disorder, amongst other mental health issues, acquitted of sexually assaulting the 8-year-old daughter of his former partner.
R v PA [2022] – Defending a man acquitted of the repeatedly raping and sexually assaulting his 14-year-old stepdaughter.
R v RB [2021] – Defending a man alleged to have indecently assaulted children aged between 5 and 8 years in the 1990s.
R v TN [2021] Defending a man acquitted of the alleged rape and sexually assault of two two former partners.
R v AK & Another [2021] – Defending a man acquitted of the alleged rape of a woman after allegedly plying her with cannabis.

Drug Offences
R v H, H & D [2026] – Prosecution of three members of an Albanian OCG alleged to be concerned in the supply of cocaine transported from London into Kent.
R v RB & Others [2025] – Defending a man involved in a conspiracy to supply at least 350kg of cocaine by an OCG who were members of the same family group or closely associated friends of the family. The conspiracy involved the collection of wholesale quantities of kilogram blocks of cocaine from locations near ports and delivery of them around the country.
R v PS [2025] – Defending a Polish long distance delivery driver acquitted of smuggling 7kg of heroin into the UK in the back of his delivery van.
R v DC, MC & MB [2025] – Prosecuting a group of defendants involved in the commercial supply of class A and B drugs, and related money laundering offences, using the EncroChat network.
R v ZL & Others [2025] – Defending a woman involved in a conspiracy to import Cannabis into the UK from the USA.
R v S&N [2024] – Prosecuting two men alleged to have imported 23kg of class A drugs into the UK.
R v SI [2023] – Defending a man alleged to have imported 25kg of class A drugs into the UK.
R v NG [2022] – Defending a man involved in a 50kg class A drug conspiracy involving the use of the EncroChat.

Other Violent Offences
R v Katie Ng and Antony O’Reilly [2024] EWCA Crim 493 – Defending a woman charged with a series of assaults involving the use of a hammer against her former husband and his work colleagues. The case is noteworthy as it had initially been stayed as abuse of process when prosecution counsel had not attended the original trial. The Court of Appeal clarified the correct approach to trial management and the application of abuse of process principles in such instances. Miss Ng was acquitted at the subsequent re-trial.
R v CQ & Others [2025] – Defending one of 8 defendants charged with wounding with intent and violent disorder arising out of an incident involving serious violence, including two stabbings, outside a nightclub in Liverpool City Centre.
R v MB [2024] – Defending a taxi driver alleged to have falsely imprisoned a lady who refused to pay her fare.
R v CH [2024] – Prosecuting a man alleged to have racially abused and threatened a neighbour using an imitation firearm.
R v SH [2022] – Prosecuting a man alleged to have use his car to mow down a motorcyclist in a road rage incident on the M2 motorway.
R v WH [2022] – Defending a man acquitted of s.18 and s.20 after assaulting the complainant with a hammer.
R v BG [2022] – Defending a man acquitted of s.18 and s.20 following his alleged involvement in the face-slashing of another man.
R v GR & Others [2021] – Prosecuting 4 defendants alleged to have stabbed a teenage girl and subsequently intimidated witnesses present at the scene.
R v CG & Others [2021] – Defending a child with significant learning difficulties alleged to have been part of a group who intentionally inflicted life changing injuries to a German student who was visiting the UK.

People Trafficking
R v HA, HA & AN [2025] – Prosecuting three men alleged to have smuggled a family of illegal entrants into the UK in a van containing furniture.
R v KC [2025] – Defending a man alleged to smuggled illegal entrants into the UK in a car in which he was a passenger.
R v RJ [2022] – Prosecuting a man alleged to have smuggled an illegal entrant into the UK in his car.
R v GB – [2021] – Prosecuting a man alleged to have smuggled 3 illegal entrants into the UK in his car.
R v BI & Another [2019] – Defending a foreign coach driver acquitted of assisting illegal entry after allegedly smuggling illegal entrants into the UK inside a purpose-built hide constructed within the luggage compartment of his coach.

Other Cases of Interest
R v JP & Others [2026] – Defending one of four defendants charged with conspiracy to possess firearms with intent to endanger life, conspiracy to convert imitation firearms into firearms and conspiracy to supply class A drugs. The Crown’s case is that the four defendants operated an established family business converting imitation firearms and ammunition for onward sale and supplying drugs
R v AD, SS & LS [2025] – Prosecution arising out of allegations of prison corruption and the smuggling into prison of drugs. The first defendant, ID, was a serving Prison Officer who was in a sexual relationship with two serving prisoners. Her intimate relationship with one of them, the third defendant, led to her conspiring with him and the second defendant, to smuggle ‘Spice’ into the prison.
R v AF [2023] – Prosecution of a former accountant alleged to have siphoned thousands of pounds from the bank account of her 91 year old grandmother into her own bank accounts and then used the money to fund her own lifestyle.
R v TD & Others [2021] – Defending one of a group of people alleged to have conspired to transfer criminal property totalling c.£12 million into the UK from Turkey using international lorry drivers.
R v DW & Others [2020] – Led junior defending the director of a renewable energy company alleged to have fraudulently sold solar panels and related energy products to elderly and vulnerable consumers across the UK.
R v MP [2020] – Defending a foreign lorry driver alleged to have caused the death of a motorcyclist by driving dangerously.
R v VC & Another [2019] – Defending a man alleged to have conspired to cause explosions after he and others had used IEDs to blow up ATMs and steal their contents.
R v SS & Others [2019] – Defending 1 of over 20 prisoners involved in a mutiny at HMP Swaleside.
R v MC & Others [2018] – Led junior defending one of a number of men alleged to have committed ‘misconduct in public office’ arising out of an undercover Panorama programme, which allegedly exposed the mistreatment of detainees by staff at the Medway Secure Training Centre.

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