Senior management team

Barry Hughes, Chief Crown Prosecutor

Barry Hughes is from Liverpool and studied law at Sheffield University before joining the newly formed Crown Prosecution Service in 1986 as a Crown Prosecutor in North London. In 1996 Barry was promoted to the post of Assistant Chief Crown Prosecutor for London and appointed Chief Crown Prosecutor for Cheshire in 1999.

In 2004 he was appointed Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS Direct and set up the CPS service which provides charging advice outside normal working hours across England and Wales.

In 2007 Barry was appointed Chief Crown Prosecutor for Avon and Somerset. Following a CPS restructure in April 2011, Barry became Chief Crown prosecutor for the South West, with ultimate responsibility for all criminal prosecutions in Gloucestershire, Devon and Cornwall and Avon and Somerset. He is married with two children and lives near Bath.

 

Tracy Easton, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor

Tracy Easton joined the CPS at its inception in September 1986. After a short spell of casual administrative work, Tracy worked as a Law Clerk at the Old Bailey and Inner London Crown Court. In 1989 she was sponsored by the CPS to become a barrister and was called to the Bar in 1992.

In 1995 Tracy moved to CPS Avon and Somerset, becoming Unit Head of the Criminal Justice Unit and then the Bristol Trials Unit, with responsibility for approximately 300 cases a year.

In 2004 she was appointed District Crown Prosecutor for South West Hampshire, before becoming Chief Crown Prosecutor of Surrey in January 2007 and Chief Crown Prosecutor of Devon and Cornwall in September 2007.

Following the CPS restructure in April 2011, Tracy was appointed Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor for the South West with specific responsibility for Cornwall, Devon and the county of Somerset. She lives in North Somerset.

 

Victoria Cook, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor

Victoria Cook qualified as a solicitor in 2002 and worked as a criminal defence advocate in Hampshire, becoming the youngest associate partner in a 16 partner firm.

Victoria joined the CPS in 2005 as a Senior Crown Prosecutor, was promoted to District Crown Prosecutor in 2007, managing the Magistrates court Unit in Portsmouth before taking responsibility for the Crown Court Unit in Dorset in 2009.

In 2010 she gained temporary promotion to the role of Chief Crown Prosecutor for Gloucestershire. Following a CPS restructure in April 2011, Victoria was appointed acting Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor for the South West with responsibility for Gloucestershire and the former Avon area, a post she secured permanently in October 2011. She is married and lives in South Gloucestershire.