Maria Koukou

Maria joined Olliers in November 2021 as part of the Litigation Support team. In June 2022 she progressed to the DBS department as DBS Paralegal and was part of the Business Development Team. Maria commenced her training contract with Olliers in February 2024.

Maria completed her law degree at the University of Leicester before completing a Master’s degree in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at the University of Birmingham. Maria’s dissertation topic was the treatment of mentally disordered sex offenders in contact with the criminal justice system. Maria then went on to complete her Legal Practice Course with a Distinction at the University of Law in Manchester.

Maria is an Accredited Police Station Representative. She finds representing clients at this early stage incredibly rewarding. She regularly prepares cases for trial at the Magistrates’ Court and assists senior colleagues in Crown Court cases involving serious allegations. She also has own caseload of Crown Court, ancillary and pre-charge cases.

Recent cases:

• 2025 NA – Represented a client at the police station who received No Further Action in relation to an allegation of sexual communication with a child.
• 2025 JS – Prepared a case at the Crown Court where our client received a suspended sentence for attempting to cause a child to engage in sexual activity and attempting to engage in sexual communications with a child
• 2025 ME – Assisted in the preparation of a Crown Court trial where our client was acquitted of domestic allegations including controlling and coercive behaviour and strangulation.
• 2025 LA – Prepared a case for sentence at the Crown Court where our client received a suspended sentence for multiple breaches of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and notification requirements.
• 2025 AR – Prepared a case for trial at the Magistrates’ Court where our client received a community order for sexual assault.
• 2025 MA – Represented a client at the police station who received No Further Action in relation to allegations of indecent exposure and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
• 2025 RL – Successfully avoided prosecution of a company director following representations to a railway company regarding fare evasion.
• 2025 DT – Prepared a case for sentence at the Crown Court where our client received a suspended sentence for dangerous driving and driving without a licence or insurance
• 2024 AM – Prepared a case for sentence at the Crown Court where our client received a suspended sentence for importation of drugs.
• 2024 CD – Assisted in a Crown Court trial where the client was acquitted of sexual assault allegations and being drunk in an aircraft.

DBS/PNC cases:

• 2025 DL – Successfully applied to have an arrest following an allegation of rape of a female removed from PNC records.
• 2024 CL – Successfully removed from both the Vulnerable Adults and the Children’s barred lists following convictions for child cruelty.
• 2024 PM – Successfully removed from the Children’s barred list following an application to the Upper Tribunal for permission to appeal against a barring decision by the DBS. The allegations involved sexual communication with a child.
• 2024 CC – Successfully applied to have an arrest following allegations of attempt/rape of a male removed from PNC records.
• 2024 AA – Successfully applied to have an arrest following a false allegation of causing grievous bodily harm removed from PNC records.
• 2023 CJ – Successfully avoided inclusion on the Children’s barred list following multiple historic convictions of indecent assault, possessing controlled drugs and handling stolen goods.
• 2023 JJ – Successfully applied to have an arrest following allegations of controlling and coercive behaviour and assault occasioning actual bodily harm removed from PNC records
• 2023 JC – Successfully applied to have an arrest following allegations of common assault and sexual assault on a male removed from PNC records.
• 2023 AT – Successfully avoided inclusion on both the Vulnerable Adults and the Children’s barred lists following a conviction of committing an act outraging public decency by behaving in an indecent manner and other indecent exposure allegations.
• 2023 HA – Successfully avoided inclusion on the Children’s barred list for allegations regarding indecent images of children.
• 2023 RN – Successfully applied to have an arrest for alleged possession of indecent images of children removed from PNC records
• 2023 AI – Successfully avoided inclusion on both the Vulnerable Adults and the Children’s barred lists for a conviction of blackmail and alleged possession of indecent images.
• 2023 ZA – Successfully applied to have arrests for alleged sexual assault, attempt to take a child without lawful authority, being drunk and disorderly as well as using threatening behaviour to cause alarm or distress removed from PNC records.
• 2022 PD – Successfully avoided inclusion on the Children’s barred list for a historic caution issued for attempting intercourse with a minor as well as convictions for assault occasioning actual bodily harm and breach of a Community Order.
• 2022 JP – Successfully avoided inclusion on the Vulnerable Adults’ barred list for a historic caution issued for having intercourse with a minor.
• 2022 NS – Successfully avoided inclusion on both the Vulnerable Adults and the Children’s barred lists for a caution issued for distributing indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of children.

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