Blackmail & Extortion Solicitors

Blackmail offences

This offence can encompass a wide range of scenarios, including ex-lovers, cybercriminals or organised crime.

Increasingly, people are being charged with and are the victims of “sextortion”. This is where blackmailers use sexually explicit images or content of the victim to threaten that these will be released online or to the victim’s loved ones or family if money isn’t sent.

Why choose Hodge Jones & Allen?

Highly experienced lawyers

Being charged with blackmail can be extremely frightening. Our experienced serious crime team will assist you from the first interview at the police station through to trial and/or sentence. Our knowledgeable Defence lawyers have more than 40 years of experience fighting for our clients’ rights.

Solicitors who care

We’re passionate about defending every client tenaciously. We’ll advise you on the evidence and develop a case strategy with you. This may involve interviewing witnesses, instructing expert witnesses and running legal arguments on the exclusion of evidence and challenging witness anonymity. We work with top barristers and higher court advocates to provide the best litigation and advocacy.

Fighting on your behalf

We’re experienced in dealing with both individuals who’ve never been involved in the criminal justice system before and multi-handed, large scale organised crime operations. We pride ourselves on fighting for every client passionately and with a tailor-made approach which caters to each client’s needs.

Featured cases

Fagan and Fergus v The United Kingdom – 347/13 – Communicated Case [2014] ECHR 322

Challenge of the UK courts allowing evidence to be given by anonymous witnesses in an allegation of kidnapping, false imprisonment and blackmail.

R v P

Partner, Kerry Spence, acted for a youth client charged with blackmail, false imprisonment and assault. She instructed specialist counsel Mr Jon Anders of 2KBW. Our client was one of five defendants. The prosecution alleged that the defendants were a group involved in a large scale drug dealing, resorting to violent means to recover drug related debts. Our client was the only defendant to be acquitted.