Death of Nina Mackay
| Nina Alexandra Mackay | |
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| Born | Essex, England |
| Died | 24 October 1997 (aged 25) Stratford, London England |
| Police career | |
| Department | Metropolitan Police Service |
| Years of service | 1992–1997 |
| Rank | Woman 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.
Mackay was from Essex, the only daughter of Sidney MacKay, a former chief superintendent with the Metropolitan Police Service. She was educated at Bancroft's School, a co-educational independent school in the town of Woodford Green, in the suburb of Woodford in north-east London, where her classmates included journalist and presenter Anita Anand.
Mackay joined the Metropolitan Police and served in the service's Territorial Support Group for five years until her death.
On 24 October 1997, Mackay went with colleagues to a property in Arthingworth Street in Stratford, east London, to arrest a man who was in breach of bail conditions.
After removing her protective vest for ease of movement and then forcing entry into the bedsit, Mackay led her colleagues into the hallway, where she was confronted by a man armed with a knife with a seven-and-a-half-inch blade. He stabbed the officer once in the chest. She was taken to hospital by ambulance but died two hours later from her injuries. The suspect was arrested and later charged with her murder.
At the Old Bailey in October 1998, Magdi Elgizouli, an unemployed man with paranoid schizophrenia was convicted of Mackay's manslaughter. The British-born 30-year-old of Sudanese origin had been charged with murder but the jury accepted his defence of diminished responsibility. He was detained indefinitely, initially at Rampton Secure Hospital in Nottinghamshire and later at St. Bernard's Hospital in west London.
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