Unit 1012 Cover Photo

Unit 1012 Cover Photo

Monday, October 24, 2016

WPC NINA MACKAY [END OF WATCH: 24 OCTOBER 1997]




Nina Alexandra Mackay


Born
Essex, England
Died
24 October 1997 (aged 25)
Stratford, London England
Police career
Department
Years of service
1992–1997
Rank


WPC Nina Alexandra Mackay was a police officer serving with London's Metropolitan Police Service who was fatally stabbed on 24 October 1997 by a man with paranoid schizophrenia she was attempting to arrest. She is the only female police officer in Great Britain to have been stabbed to death while on duty and her killing was the first of a female officer since the murder of Yvonne Fletcher in 1984.

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