Primrose May Oxtoby (c1949)

Primrose finished schooling in Wetherby, North Yorkshire, at age 16 and considered attending art college. She regularly worshipped at the local Methodist church. However, at age 17 she met Fred Shipman on a bus. Before long she was expecting his child. They had a very low-key unreported registry wedding.

She is believed to have had no suspicions about her surgeon husband's fatal treatment of hundreds of his patients. He was imprisoned for life in 2000 and hanged himself in 2004 (apparently as a last decent gesture so that she would inherit more before a pending law change).

Primrose and their children have new identities.

Older sister, Mary