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UK trainee jailed for helping brother flee after fatal drive-by shooting.
The SRA banned her from the profession, calling her conduct “premeditated”.
Husna Khan, a former trainee at O’Neill Patient Solicitors, has been permanently banned from the legal profession after helping her brother flee the country following a fatal drive-by murder.
Her brother, Khurshid Khan, was in the car with two men when one of them fired shots at 18-year-old boxer Cole Kershaw in Bury, near Manchester.
After the killing, Husna and her sister hid Khurshid in a hotel and spent around £2.8k helping him flee abroad. He was later arrested in Amsterdam and extradited back to the UK, where he was convicted of murder and firearm offences.
Despite facing criminal proceedings, Husna started work as a trainee in the firm’s conveyancing team in 2024. The firm had no idea about the charges until her conviction appeared on a police website. It fired her immediately and reported the case to the SRA.
She was jailed for 30 months for assisting an offender.
Husna Khan - Greater Manchester Police
The SRA said her actions were premeditated, noting she had “attempted to obstruct the course of justice.”
Khan has now been slapped with a Section 43 order, banning her from working in any regulated law firm without SRA approval, and ordered to pay £600 in costs.
Source: Legal Cheek