Lionel Luckhoo

Sir Lionel Alfred Luckhoo KCMG CBE QC (2 March 1914 – 12 December 1997) was a Guyanese politician, diplomat, and lawyer, famed for his 245 consecutive successful defences in murder cases.

At the same time that Allied troops were evacuating from Dunkirk in World War II, Luckhoo left England for his homeland.

[citation needed] Part of his courtroom technique is reported in Fred Archer's biography of Sir Lionel Luckhoo: He also came to notoriety as the legal personal representative of the Reverend Jim Jones.

Jones was the founder and leader of the People's Temple Church, and had left California in the 1970s to establish a commune in Guyana known as Jonestown.

As the Stoens commenced legal proceedings in Georgetown to have the court order enforced in January 1978, Jones made contact by short-wave radio with Sir Lionel Luckhoo.

However, on 18 November 1978, a large number of members of the commune died in a mass suicide, and John Victor Stoen was among the dead.

However, at age 64, he experienced a profound religious conversion at a meeting he attended on 7 November 1978 that was sponsored by the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International (FGBMFI); thereafter, he actively participated in the Protestant Evangelical movement of Christianity.

After his conversion, he established Luckhoo Ministries in Fort Worth, Texas, and became an itinerant speaker about his Christianity in Guyana, England, Australia and the United States of America.

Booklets included titles such as What is Your Verdict?, The Question Answered: Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?, and The Quran is not the Word of God.

His spiritual life and apologetics contributions have been discussed in the writings of Ross Clifford, Lee Strobel and Josh McDowell.