Roger Smart and Rachna Gokani were instructed for the prosecution in the case of R v Tito Ibn Sheikh. The defendant, the eldest son of Abu Hamza, was convicted of organising a kidnapping in which the hostage was taken from his place of work and held against his will at several different locations. The hostage was repeatedly assaulted with weapons, kicked, punched and strangled, before being rescued by armed police. The Court of Appeal has lifted a previous court order after refusing an application to appeal the conviction.

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