Female officers who have died in the line of duty Magdi Elgizouli, 37, had been in breach of bail conditions for assaulting a police officer and possessing an offensive weapon, a knife, 11 days earlier. In April 1998, he was detained indefinitely and ordered to be sent to a maximum security hospital after admitting manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility. Nina Mackay Pc Alison Armitage, 29, died in 2001 during an undercover operation in Hollinwood, near Oldham. A car thief, Thomas Whaley, 19, twice reversed a stolen vehicle over her. She and a colleague from the Greater Manchester force had spotted Whaley driving away in a stolen Vauxhall Vectra in Oldham. Whaley was jailed for eight years for manslaughter. Pc Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead during a demonstration outside the Libyan embassy in London in April 1984. Her killer has never been brought to justice and film director Michael Winner founded the Police Memorial Trust as a result of her murder. Hopes of finding the killer were revived following the revolution which topped Colonel Muammar Gaddafi last year. Yvonne Fletcher Pc Jane Arbuthnot, 22, was killed in the Harrods terrorist attack in 1983 when an IRA car bomb exploded outside the London store. Two other officers and three members of the public also died, and 75 were injured, after the car blast near the store in Knightsbridge, central London. Pc Mandy Rayner, 18, became the first woman officer killed in mainland Britain. She died in 1982 when a drunken driver crashed into her in Royston, Herts. Pc Angela Bradley, 22, died alongside two other officers after they went into the sea to rescue a drowning man and his dog in Blackpool. At her funeral she was described as possessing "degrees of courage and determination which left her fellow officers, almost all male, in awe." Joanne Mary Cochran, 20, of Thames Valley Police died in March 1984 as a result of a car crash during a vehicle pursuit. Deborah Leat, 20, of Avon and Somerset Police, died in November 1986 when her police car went out of control on a bend and crashed into a tree while pursuing a vehicle. Sandra Edwards, 28, of South Yorkshire Police, died in a crash while pursuing a stolen car in 1995.