Lawyer in the news

Who? Roger Terrell, 39-year-old sole principal at Roger Terrell & Co in Peterborough.

Why is he in the news? Represented Colin Harrold, acquitted this month of conspiring to pay his best friend, Darren Lake, 20,000 to murder Mrs Harrold and dump her body in the swimming pool of the couple's mansion, making it look as if she had slipped while trying to rescue her cat.

Mr Lake pleaded guilty and was given life sentences for murder and conspiracy to murder.

The judge appeared to criticise the jury's verdict by saying that Lake's evidence was 'essentially truthful'.

Background: Graduated in law from Trent Polytechnic in 1976 and stayed to complete his Law Society Finals.

Articled with Nottinghamshire County Council, qualifying in 1980.

After working in-house at Baker Perkins in Peterborough for five years and then a spell back in private practice, he set up as a sole practitioner in 1988.

Previously acted for the man who unwittingly sold the IRA the van that was used to plant the Manchester bomb.Route to the case: Handled Mr Harrold's divorce from his first wife.

Thoughts on the case: 'The prosecution alleged my client was blackmailing his co-defendant, saying that unless he killed his wife, Harrold would make public a photograph of Lake being raped by two men.

We argued that there was no agreement or conspiracy and the photo certainly didn't exist - it was made up by Lake in order to justify his cold and callous crime.

The prosecution also alleged that Harrold had confessed to the crime to someone called John Bond, who was in prison for perjury at the time.

With prosecution's star witnesses a self-confessed murderer and a convicted perjurer, our QC ripped them apart.

It is very unusual for a judge to give his personal opinion - but all we are really concerned with is the jury's opinion, and they found 12-0 in favour of Harrold.'

On dealing with the media: 'Harrold was offered 70,000 by The Mail on Sunday for his story, but eventually gave it to a local paper free.

I've had quite a lot of dealings with the media, but this case was unlike anything else I've ever known in terms of the media interest.'

Victoria MacCallum