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Sandra Pankhurst | |
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Born | 1953 |
Died | 2021 |
Known for | Crime scene cleaning services, activism |
Sandra Pankhurst (26 May 1953 – 6 July 2021) was a businesswoman. She was adopted as an infant and grew up in West Footscray, Melbourne. Following an abusive childhood, Pankhurst would go on to work in different fields as a sex worker, taxi receptionist, and the first female funeral director in Victoria. Pankhurst was transgender, having transitioned from male to female in the late 1970s. She became well known after founding a cleaning business that cleaned the sites of hoarding and homicide. She died on 6 July 2021.