Helen Grindrod

Helen Marjorie Grindrod (28 February 1936 – 11 July 2002) was a British judge. She was one of the United Kingdom's most senior female judges.

Biography Grindrod was born in Aigburth, Liverpool, and attended the Liverpool Institute High School for Girls and St Hilda's College, Oxford. After meeting her husband at Oxford through the theatre she taught at Lockleaze school in Bristol. She was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1966.

In the 1980s she was part of the prosecution team for the Toxteth Riots trials in 1981 and against British Nuclear Fuels who were found to have contaminated beaches near their Sellafield plant with radioactive waste. In 1996 she prosecuted the businessman Owen Oyston who was accused of rape.

In 2000, she was diagnosed with cancer. In 2002, she died from the disease.