Claire Lindley , Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor, CPS Mersey-Cheshire 

Claire is a barrister and was called to the Bar in 1986, having studied Law at both Nottingham University (LLB) and London School of Economics (LLM)

She joined the CPS in 1987, and worked for the most part in central and south London. She is a crown advocate.

Claire became the Branch Crown Prosecutor for Greenwich and Woolwich, in South London, and then moved to Preston in 2001.  

She then became a Chief Crown Prosecutor in 2005, and has worked in that capacity in Cheshire, Staffordshire and Cumbria.

In the recent moves to larger Areas, Claire took up the post in Mersey-Cheshire in April 2011.