Top QC Donald Findlay says getting Paul Ferris cleared of a notorious gangland murder was his finest courtroom moment.
Ferris, recruited as an enforcer for crime lord Arthur Thompson when he was still in his teens, stood trial in 1992 accused of gunning down Thompson’s son, Arthur jnr, the year before.
But with Findlay as his counsel in a marathon three-month trial, he was sensationally acquitted of murder, drug trafficking, conspiracy and gun possession.
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