KB-2024-001295 - [2025] EWHC 3000 (KB)
Fecha: 14-Nov-2025
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MRS JUSTICE HILL DBE Approved Judgment | DPP v O’Connor and others |

Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Before:
MRS JUSTICE HILL DBE
Between:
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS | Claimant |
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(1) JOSEPH JAMES O’CONNOR (2) KEIR HOLME (3) KYLE LOMAX | Defendant |
Gary Pons (instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service) for the Claimant
The First Defendant did not appear and was not legally represented at the 9 June 2025 hearing
Jonathan Lennon KC (instructed by DBT and Partners) for the First Defendant at the 11 November 2025 hearing
The Second and Third Defendants did not appear and were not represented
Hearing dates: 9 June and 11 November 2025
Approved Judgment
This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 14 November 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.
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Mrs Justice Hill DBE:
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- Introduction
- The evidence
- The factual background in overview
- (ii): D2 and D3
- More detail on the source of the funds in the accounts
- The legal framework
- The procedural history prior to the 9 June 2025 hearing
- The Case Management Conference (“CMC”) on 18 March 2025
- Events between the CMC and 9 June 2025
- The 9 June 2025 hearing
- Proceeding in the absence of D2 and D3
- Service of the hearing papers on D1
- Events after the 9 June 2025 hearing
- The 11 November 2025 hearing
- Analysis and decision
- (ii): The location of the Property
- (iii): “Recoverable property”
- (a): The nature of the Property itself
- (b): The way the Property is held
- (c): Additional efforts undertaken to conceal the origin of the Property and its connection to the D1
- (d): The US offences
- (f): The lack of any evidence in response to the Claimant’s case
- Conclusions