Nina Alexandra Mackay | |
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Born | 1971 or 1972 Essex, England |
Died | (aged 25) Stratford, London, England |
Police career | |
Department | Metropolitan Police Service |
Service years | 1992–1997 |
Rank | Police Constable |
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.