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Christopher Bertham secures acquittals in 'Operation Misfit' graffiti trial

Gordon McDermott, alleged to have been the graffiti writer "CUT", was acquitted of causing criminal damage in an operation that investigated £ 1/2 million graffiti damage principally caused to London Underground and Network Rail structures and trains.

Christopher Bertham, leading Mark Bagshaw for Mr McDermott, secured the acquittals after having called as a witness Ben Eine, the internationally acclaimed street artist, to rebut claims made by prosecution witnesses that they could confidently identify the same hand-style through all of the tags relating to "Cut". Other Defendants were convicted of causing criminal damage to varying extents.

Read the article on the case in The Guardian here

The report in the Daily Mail is here

9 June 2011

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