A veteran solicitor who continues to dispute his conviction for sexual assault has been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT). Timothy John Luckhurst-Matthews, 73, was an in-house solicitor at The Thompson Group at the time, having qualified in 1986. According to a BBC report of his trial, a female colleague was wearing a festive jumper, which bore the slogan ‘Jingle my bells’, when she encountered Mr Luckhurst-Matthews in December 2022. In March, the Court of Appeal refused the certificate of general public importance which was necessary for the appeal to proceed to the Supreme Court. Mr Luckhurst-Matthews has now lodged a further appeal at the European Court of Human Rights.