Personal Life
Pizzey married Jack Pizzey, then a naval lieutenant, when she was 20, first meeting in Hong Kong. They had two children. Pizzey lives in South London. She was diagnosed with cancer in 2000.
In 2000 Pizzey's grandson Keita Craig, who had schizophrenia, committed suicide in a prison cell. Pizzey and his family campaigned against the coroner's verdict of death by hanging and in 2001 a jury at a second inquest unanimously found that his death was contributed to by the neglect of prison staff. The case was the first ever to reach a finding of neglect in a suicide case.
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