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	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.