{"id":444912,"date":"2026-02-25T14:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/444912\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:16:08","slug":"plymouth-criminal-defence-solicitor-who-abused-clients-is-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/444912\/","title":{"rendered":"Plymouth criminal defence solicitor who abused clients is jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Linden acknowledged that much of the offending happened in private legal consultations in the custody suite at Charles Cross police station. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It remains a fundamental legal right for a defendant and a solicitor to meet and speak in private. It was Alan Harris who exploited this,&#8221; he said. Linden said there were no plans for CCTV cameras in interview rooms at the police station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have to balance the rights of people who&#8217;ve been arrested in law and morally and ethically to have a private consultation with a solicitor,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That said, there have been significant changes over a number of years in custody, so all the access areas, the communal areas within a custody site, most of our cells and detention cells are now audio recorded or video recorded, so any chance of any offending to take place in those environments is somewhat limited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harris&#8217;s former law firm, AH Solicitors, did not want to comment, but said its thoughts were with the victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Linden acknowledged that much of the offending happened in private legal consultations in the custody suite at Charles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-444912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}