Judge Mark Lucraft QC has been appointed Chief Coroner of England and Wales with effect from 1 October 2016 for a three year term. He will take over from His Honour Judge Peter Thornton QC who retires in October.
Judge Lucraft was called to the Bar in 1984, where his practice focused on serious and complex fraud cases. He was involved in investigations and prosecutions following the death of Robert Maxwell, and the investigation into suspected price fixing in pharmaceuticals supplied to the Department of Health. He was a member of the prosecuting team involved in the cases arising out of the Hatfield rail crash. He was lead counsel for the Serious Fraud Office in the largest “boiler room” fraud they had then investigated.
He was appointed a Recorder in 2003, and to the Circuit Bench in 2012.
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