Ken Macdonald

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Sir Ken Macdonald QC is Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales [1]. In that office he is ex officio head of the Crown Prosecution Service. He was previously a defence solicitor.

He studied at St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 1974. He was called to the bar in 1978 and became a queen's counsel in 1997. In 2001 he became a recorder (a part time judge) in the Crown Court. He was awarded a knighthood from the Queen in the 2007 New Year's Honours list. Sir Ken is married with two sons and a daughter and is a keen player of the jazz flute.

His appointment met with much controversy as he had never prosecuted a case before becoming DPP, and he has once convicted of supplying a small amount of cannabis to a friend.[2] It was suspected that his appointment may have, in some way, been influenced by his friendship with Cherie Blair, a fellow founder of Matrix Chambers.