We perform a comprehensive study of family symmetry models based on A 4 combined with the generalised CP symmetry H CP . We investigate the lepton mixing parameters which can be obtained from the original symmetry A 4 H CP breaking to different remnant symmetries in the neutrino and charged lepton sectors. We find that only one case is phenomenologically viable, namelyH l CP in the charged lepton sector, leading to the prediction of no CP violation, namely δ CP and the Majorana phases α 21 and α 31 are all equal to either zero or π. We then propose an effective supersymmetric model based on the symmetry A 4 H CP in which trimaximal lepton mixing is predicted together with either zero CP violation or δ CP ±π/2 with non-trivial Majorana phases. An ultraviolet completion of the effective model yields a neutrino mass matrix which depends on only three real parameters. As a result of this, all three CP phases and the absolute neutrino mass scale are determined, the atmospheric mixing angle is maximal, and the Dirac CP can either be preserved with δ CP = 0, π or maximally broken with δ CP = ±π/2 and sharp predictions for the Majorana phases and neutrinoless double beta decay. *