SPC Director, Bernie Gravett, was the appointed human trafficking expert in a case of a Vietnamese male being found in a cannabis grow and prosecuted. There were significant indicators that the male was a potential victim of criminal exploitation: - The victim came from Nghe An Province in Vietnam, this...
We are really proud that following Colin Carswell and Bernie Gravett being appointed independent modern slavery experts in a case of murder, that their evidence was instrumental in the acquittal of 'RS' - the 16 year old accused. RS had historically been recognised as a victim of modern slavery through County...
We are thrilled to have been in Newcastle yesterday, successfully delivering our first bespoke training to legal professionals. Participants included criminal and immigration solicitors, lecturers from Newcastle University Law School and students from the St Mary’s University MA course in ‘Human Trafficking, Migration & Organised Crime’. The training drew on our...
The Crown Prosecution Service have dropped all charges against a young victim of criminal exploitation that SPC were engaged as expert witness for. A vulnerable young man can now get his life back and not face the possibility of going to prison, with profound lifelong consequences! The ‘defendant’, a young lad...
SPC Director, Colin Carswell, has been appointed as one of only three Special Advisors to the Parliamentary Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry into Human Trafficking. https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7290/human-trafficking/
SPC is proud to launch its first two bespoke training courses on modern slavery - designed wholly to meet the needs of the UK legal profession. Human Trafficking & Modern Slavery: Training for Legal Professionals Newcastle: 8th June 2023 West London: 22nd June 2023 “People with lived experience of modern slavery often...
A great morning at the The Human Trafficking Foundation Advisory Forum, chaired by Anthony Steen and Baroness Butler-Sloss, assisted by Robyn Phillips and Phil Brewer MA. The room was packed with over 150 professionals and passionate advocates against human trafficking & modern slavery. Some inspiring speakers Lauren Starkey Sema Gornall and...
In early 2016 SPC Director, Bernie Gravett, was contracted to deliver training to law enforcement on internet-based Child Sexual Exploitation including Child Sexual Abuse Material / Indecent Images of Children and how to investigate such crimes on behalf of the IOM. While preparing the training programme on the 6th April 2017...
Last week, as a Director of Specialist Policing Consultancy Ltd, I was asked to urgently review a County Lines case and provide an expert witness statement, re a 15 year old boy charged with drug trafficking offenses. At the age of 14 the boy had been recruited by a prominent...
