Operation Donlontown (2016)

Counsel for the Crown led by Mark Heywood QC. The investigation into the 2008 murder of Adnan Patel in Leytonstone, East London, concluded with the sentencing of Amar Shah at the Central Criminal Court in 2016. Amar Shah absconded to Pakistan the day after the murder but surrendered to police on his return to the UK in . He was prosecuted for murder but acceptable pleas were  entered to manslaughter and violent disorder. He was sentenced to 11 years and 10 months. He was the last defendant prosecuted in Operation Donlontown (one had been convicted of murder and three more of violent disorder).

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