Asolicitor who was convicted of distributing an indecent video of a child and possessing three extreme pornographic images has been struck off the roll.
Sohail Bashir, admitted in May 2008, was practising as a consultant solicitor at Allied Law Chambers Solicitors Ltd until March 2024. He was arrested in August 2020 before appearing before Manchester magistrates court where he admitted distributing an indecent photograph, a category B video of a child, and possessing three extreme pornographic images which ‘portrayed, in an explicit and realistic way’, images ‘that were grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character’.