Lucy Pratt
Lucy Katherine Partington was a British woman from Gloucestershire whose tragic abduction and murder in 1973 became a major subject of criminal history.
- Lived
- 1952–1974
- Nationality
- British
Lucy Katherine Partington (1952–1974) was a British woman from the village of Gretton, located in Gloucestershire, England. Her life was tragically cut short in late 1973 when she became a victim of the serial killers Frederick and Rosemary West.
On the evening of 27 December 1973, Partington was waiting at a bus stop along the A435 trunk road when she was either lured or forced into the Wests' vehicle. She was subsequently driven to their home on Cromwell Street in Gloucester. Once there, she was restrained in the basement of the property and subjected to severe physical abuse and acts of sadomasochism before being murdered. Circumstantial evidence suggests she may have been kept captive in the cellar for up to six days before she was killed by either strangulation or asphyxiation, around 2 January 1974.
For more than twenty years, Partington remained missing. Her fate was finally uncovered on 6 March 1994, when her extensively dismembered body was discovered buried in an alcove of the Wests' cellar. Following the recovery of her remains, she was laid to rest in the grounds of Hailes Chapelyard in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
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