Jeremy Dein

{{Short description|English barrister (born 1960)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Jeremy Sydney Dein, KC | birth_name =  | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|06|29}} | birth_place = Bow, London, England | occupation = Barrister | alma_mater = Queen Mary College | website = {{URL|http://www.25bedfordrow.com/site/people/profile/jeremy.dein}} }}

'''Jeremy Sydney Dein''', KC (born 29 June 1960) is an English barrister specialising in criminal defence.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jeremy Dein QC at Celebrity Sightings in London |url=http://www.wltx.com/video/3677232142001/1/Jeremy-Dein-QC-at-Celebrity-Sightings-in-London-on-16th-July-2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150404122812/http://www.wltx.com/video/3677232142001/1/Jeremy-Dein-QC-at-Celebrity-Sightings-in-London-on-16th-July-2014 |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 April 2015 |publisher=WLTX |access-date=3 April 2015 }}</ref>

==Career== Jeremy Dein was called to the Bar in 1982 and took Silk in 2003. He was appointed a Recorder on 2004. He became an Old Bailey recorder in 2016. Dein is listed in Band 1 Chambers directory, and Legal 500, in Criminal Silks 2017.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Legal 500 rankings|url=http://www.legal500.com/firms/9383/offices/9383/lawyers/73781|publisher=Legal 500|accessdate=3 April 2015}}</ref> He is former Criminal Bar Association Director of education and has written and lectured in the UK, and internationally on criminal defence. He has conducted many homicide trials, predominantly at the Old Bailey.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jeremy Dein QC Biography|url=http://lexisweb.co.uk/users/jeremy-dein|publisher=LexisNexis|accessdate=3 April 2015}}</ref> He practices from and is Joint Head of 25 Bedford Row Chambers.

He acted for Amy Winehouse's husband on serious charges.<ref>{{cite web|title=Amy Winehouse's husband given 27-month jail sentence|url=https://www.nme.com/news/amy-winehouse/38315|publisher=New Musical Express|accessdate=3 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Winehouse|first1=Janis|title=Loving Amy: A Mother's Story|date=11 September 2014|isbn=9781473508163|page=10}}</ref> He also defended Eric Joyce, MP<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mickolus|first1=Edward|title=Terrorism, 2008-2012: A Worldwide Chronology|date=8 March 2014|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476614670|page=134}}</ref> for Falkirk on charges of assault in the House of Commons.<ref>{{cite news|title=Woman stabbed MP 'in revenge for Iraq war vote'|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8102306/Woman-stabbed-MP-in-revenge-for-Iraq-war-vote.html|accessdate=3 April 2015|publisher=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref> In 2013 he defended Tony McCluskie who murdered and dismembered Gemma McCluskie, his sister and a former EastEnders actor.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21124574|title=Brother has 'no recollection' of killing EastEnders' Gemma McCluskie|publisher=BBC News|date=2013-01-21}}</ref> In 2015, Dein represented Tulisa Contostavlos on charges of being involved in the supply of cocaine. Mazher Mahmood, the “Fake Sheikh” at the centre of the ''Sun on Sunday'' sting was suspended and was later jailed for tampering with evidence.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tulisa Contostavlos trial collapses over Mazher Mahmood's evidence|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/jul/21/tulisa-contostavlos-trial-collapses-mazher-mahmood|accessdate=3 April 2015|work=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theconversation.com/collapse-of-tulisa-trial-a-sting-in-the-tail-for-fake-sheikh-and-the-tabloid-expose-29613|title=Collapse of Tulisa trial a sting in the tail for Fake Sheikh and the tabloid exposé}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37727631 | title = 'Fake Sheikh' Mazher Mahmood jailed over Tulisa case | work = BBC News | date = 21 October 2016 | access-date = 26 September 2024 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> In 2018 he advocated for Tommy Robinson to be released from prison over his contempt of court conviction due to "procedural deficiencies" during the trial.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/tommy-robinson-free-jail-prison-appeal-court-contempt-judge-latest-result-a8453731.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220608/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/tommy-robinson-free-jail-prison-appeal-court-contempt-judge-latest-result-a8453731.html |archive-date=8 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Tommy Robinson lawyers appeal for far-right leader to be freed from prison because of 'procedural deficiencies'|author=Lizzie Dearden|work=The Independent|date=2018-07-18}}</ref>

== ''Murder, Mystery and My Family'' == Along with Sasha Wass, KC, Dein appears in the BBC One series ''Murder, Mystery and My Family'' (2018-2019), which examines historic criminal cases in order to determine if any of them resulted in a miscarriage of justice. Their submissions - Dein for the "defence" and Wass for the "prosecution" are then presented to Judge David Radford, who considers whether there are grounds to consider the convictions as being unsafe. Cases featured include those of Edward Devlin and Alfred Burns, John Dickman, Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters, and Herbert John Bennett.

==Personal life== Dein was born in Bow, in Tower Hamlets and grew up in Redbridge. He graduated from Queen Mary College, University of London in 1981.<ref name=25br>{{cite web|title=Jeremy Dein QC |url=http://www.25bedfordrow.com/jeremy-dein-qc/practice-overview.asp.html |publisher=25 Bedford Row |access-date=3 April 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419004532/http://www.25bedfordrow.com/jeremy-dein-qc/practice-overview.asp.html |archive-date=19 April 2015 }}</ref> He is the first cousin of former Arsenal vice-chairman David Dein

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