A prominent Welsh barrister is seriously ill in hospital following a crash on the M4.
Patrick Harrington QC has been involved in some of the biggest and high profile cases in Wales over the past two decades.
Mr Harrington has been at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff since the crash happened on the M4 near Newport on Friday (January 3).
Traffic was held for two hours after the serious incident which involved Mr Harrington's silver BMW.
At the time Gwent Police said that a 70-year-old man had been taken to hospital with a head injury.
It is understood that Mr Harrington is in a critical but stable condition.
Mr Harrington has been involved in some of the biggest criminal cases in Wales. He was the prosecutor in the Geraldine Palk murder trial in 2003 when Mark Hampson was jailed for life for the murder of the Cardiff shipping clerk. He was also the prosecutor in the trial of David Morris who was found guilty of the Clydach murders of four members of the same family and the 2003 conviction of Jeffrey Gafoor who killed Lynette White.
Cases he has been involved in include the men accused of the murder of Cardiff teenager Aamir Siddiqi in Cardiff, the trial of multi-millionaire Peter Morgan who was jailed for 25 years for killing his girlfriend Georgina Symonds, and triple murderer Carl Mills who killed three generations of a family in a house fire in Cwmbran.
Mr Harrington, who belongs to Farrar's Building chambers in London, is described as a "hugely experienced barrister on the Wales and Chester Circuit with significant experience in fraud and murder cases who is highly praised by his peers."
