London North

Jaswant Kaur Narwal, Chief Crown Prosecutor

Jaswant became our Chief Crown Prosecutor in CPS London North in September 2023 and has overall responsibility for all our criminal prosecutions in most of the London boroughs north of the River Thames (excluding Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster).

Jaswant is the former Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS Thames and Chiltern - a position she held since October 2018. Prior to joining CPS Thames and Chiltern, she was the Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS South East.

Jaswant is also the CPS national lead for 'honour'-based abuse, female genital mutilation and forced marriage, and she works with partners to raise awareness about these crimes and to increase prosecutions.

Jaswant has over 34 years’ service with the Crown Prosecution Service, joining the organisation in 1989. She qualified as a barrister in 1993 and spent much of her early career prosecuting in London. She then became head of the Old Bailey Trials Unit, handling homicide cases across London. She has also managed specialist police complaints, led a review of convictions in cases involving corrupt police officers, and handled large-scale public disorder cases.

In 2007, Jaswant was appointed Chief Crown Prosecutor for Lincolnshire and subsequently Chief Crown Prosecutor for Sussex in 2010. She then became Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor for the South East Area, with responsibility for operational delivery and the digital working programme. Jaswant took up the national position of Deputy Head of the Central Fraud Division in 2013 and later Deputy Head of the Welfare, Rural and Health Division.

Jo Coleman, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor

Jo is the Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor (DCCP) responsible for Crown Court cases in London North. She joined the CPS in 2001 as a Senior Crown Prosecutor (SCP) in Thames Valley. Prior to that she was a defence solicitor in private practice for seven years.

Having worked as an SCP, Jo was appointed a District Crown Prosecutor (DCP) in 2003 and undertook a number of DCP roles over the Magistrates’ and Crown Court teams across Thames Valley and then Thames and Chiltern, following the restructure of CPS Areas.

Jo had a period as acting Senior DCP heading the Complex Casework Unit (CCU) in Thames Valley in 2010. She also undertook a role as project manager for rolling out digital working in Thames and Chiltern in 2012.

In June 2014 she became DCCP in CPS Thames and Chiltern. She led the Magistrates’ Court team until May 2017 when she took over as DCCP for the Crown Court, CCU and RASSO teams in Thames and Chiltern. She joined London South as DCCP in August 2019 and moved over to London North in April 2021.

Lisa Ramsarran, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor

Lisa joined the CPS in 1996 as a legal trainee in the South East Area. She was appointed as a Crown Prosecutor in 1998 and Senior Crown Prosecutor in 2000. She held a variety of prosecutor roles within the South East and held appointments as the Domestic Abuse and Hate Crime Area champion. In 2005, Lisa was appointed as the temporary Unit Head for the Brighton Criminal Justice Unit. Shortly after in 2006, she was appointed as the Borough Crown Prosecutor for Croydon, South London.

Lisa later returned to CPS South East and held District Crown Prosecutor roles for the Early Guilty Plea team and the Rape and Serious Sexual Offences (RASSO) Unit. Following promotion to Senior District Crown Prosecutor in 2016 she was appointed to the Magistrates' Court then the Crown Court before taking up her role as Head of Complex Casework and RASSO in 2017.

In July 2019, Lisa started in London North as Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor for the CPS London North Magistrates’ Unit. She took over as DCCP for the RASSO team and the pan-London Homicide Team in August 2020.

Paul Stimson, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor

Paul Stimson joined the CPS as a Senior Crown Prosecutor in the East Midlands, first working on the advocacy team in the Magistrates’ Court. He became a Crown Advocate, before being promoted to the position of District Crown Prosecutor for the Crown Advocacy team in 2013. He became a Senior District Crown Prosecutor in 2015, before taking up the role of Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor (DCCP) in the South East in May 2017. He joined London North in August 2020 and is the DCCP with responsibility for magistrates’ court work.

Zeltia Carrera, Area Business Manager

Our Magistrates’ Court Unit prosecutes offences of domestic abuse, assaults, criminal damage, minor public disorder incidents, all but the most serious traffic offences, possession of drugs, dangerous dog offences, offences of dishonesty and commercial burglaries. The list is not exhaustive but generally comprises of any offence where the maximum permitted sentence for each offence does not exceed six months imprisonment or one year if two or more relevant offences are to be considered. 

The Crown Court Unit deals with cases such as attempted murder, robberies, serious assaults, dwelling house burglaries, complex fraud and the supply and trafficking of drugs.

The Homicide unit, which covers the whole of London, deals with murders and the most serious road traffic offences, especially those that result in a fatality. A separate Complex Casework Unit which covers the whole of London is aligned to the CPS London South Area.

The RASSO Unit is a dedicated and specialised team which prosecutes cases such as rape, serious sexual offences, child abuse, child sexual exploitation, honour based violence and Female Genital Mutilation. The staff on the unit all have a great deal of understanding of the sensitivities of prosecuting cases of this nature and how difficult and harrowing it can be for a victim from the first step of making a complaint to the police, through to giving evidence in a trial.