Ban for barrister who gave client’s girlfriend £2.3k

A barrister once accused of sending ‘sex texts’ to a burglar’s girlfriend has been suspended for six months for lavishing a client with £2,300 to help ‘turn her life around’. Roy Headlam admitted he was ‘stupid’ to give the woman cash for clothes and a college course while representing her in ongoing proceedings. Headlam set out to help the ‘manipulative’ client, whose boyfriend was a drug dealer, after she told him she could not afford food or electricity, the Bar…