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‘A spectacular person’: Sandra Pankhurst, subject of The Trauma Cleaner, dies in Melbourne

Written By Unknown on Thursday, July 8, 2021 | 8:19 AM

‘Extraordinary life’ included working as a cleaner after homicides and suicides, a drag queen, sex worker and funeral director

Melbourne woman Sandra Pankhurst, the subject of the award-winning book The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein, has died.

Pankhurst suffered from a serious pulmonary condition and was believed to be in her late 60s but the exact cause of her death and precise age were unknown.

Related: ‘I started dry retching’: the harrowing world of a trauma cleaner

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