Dylan Wagg

Dylan currently prosecutes CPS Grade 2 and Grade 3 work including Rape and Serious Sexual Offences and serious violence and dishonesty crime. In 2023, Dylan was awarded an Excellence in Prosecution Award for his work on protest cases.

Cases

R v SM at Shrewsbury CC [2025] – Defended a man who was likely facing the activation of a 24 month custodial sentence due to committing 6 further offences whilst subject to the suspended sentence order. The judge did not activate the sentence and instead gave him a new suspended sentence order with a community order. Reported in Shropshire Star.

R (on the application of DPP) v Crown Court at Stoke on Trent (2025) 2 WLUK 491 – Assisted Counsel of 6KBW (College Hill) in the drafting of submissions to the High Court to judicially review a decision by Stoke Crown Court not to extend the defendant’s custody time limits. The appeal was successful and the defendant’s CTL was extended. Dylan remains as trial counsel on this case at the Crown Court.

Violent Disorder (ongoing) – Successfully prosecuted a significant number of those engaged in the disorder that arose from the Southport Murders in Summer 2024. These cases include the incidents in Hanley, Stoke as well as the rioters that attended a hotel in Tamworth.

Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court (ongoing) RaSSO – Prosecuting a self-represented defendant who provided drugs to the complainant before sexually assaulting her. Counsel appeared for the Crown in the s. 28 hearing as well as trial counsel.

Stoke on Trent Crown Court (2025) – Prosecuted a man who viciously assaulted a teenage boy with a Stanley knife.

Stoke on Trent Crown Court (2025) – Guilty pleas secured in a serious assault case where the defendants violently and repeatedly assaulted a woman causing her serious injury whist the victim’s child and defendant’s child watched.

Wolverhampton Crown Court (2024) RaSSO – Successfully resisted defence application to introduce previous sexual behaviour of a woman who had alleged her step-father had assaulted her over a hundred times between 1996 and 1999. Counsel also introduced a successful bad character application that showed the defendant was providing alcohol to young teenage girls.

Stoke-on Trent Crown Court (2024) RaSSO – Successfully prosecuted a man who had been communicating sexually with a teenage boy that he knew. Dylan provided an advice to obtain further evidence from which he discovered that the defendant had also distributed IIOC through snapchat. He was subsequently convicted of both sexual communication with a child and distributing indecent images of children.

Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court (2024) – Successful prosecution of two defendants who entered a young woman’s home under the false pretence that they were police officers so that they could burglarise her property. Both submitted basis of pleas that were abandoned based on succinct submissions of prosecution counsel.

Birmingham Crown Court (2024) – Successfully prosecuted a man for a racial public order offence who continued to harass West Midlands police.

Telford YC (2023) – Successfully prosecuted two youths for robbery who had held two youth victims at gunpoint in a park in Telford. Successfully argued following trial that these were grave crimes.

• Honourable Society of the Middle Temple
• Criminal Bar Association

• Scholarship for Bar School in 2018 (the Academic Excellence Scholarship)
• Excellence in Prosecution Award: Protest Cases team in 2023

• University of Reading – 1.1 Law LLB Degree
• University of Nottingham – 1.1 Law LLM Degree
• BPP Law School – Very Competent