Death of Council Member Pat Le Masurier

The Jersey Consumer Council is saddened by the death of one of our Council Members, Pat Le Masurier. Pat had been a committed and respected Member since July 2018, and was passionate about giving her time and experience to help improve consumer issues for Islanders.

She was always one of the first to volunteer when Council Members were needed to run a stand, or to help at events such as our Jersey Consumer Fair.

Last summer, Pat had the initiative to run a stand at the Jersey Cheshire Homes Community Café, where she met customers at the café and offered them helpful consumer advice and tips. And, most recently, when we had a stand in town on 18 June, she joined the team to spend the morning chatting to consumers about all kinds of issues and handing out our branded shopping bags.

Pat was born and educated in Lancashire, and before moving to Jersey she was a fully-Home Office-trained Prison Officer. She served in every type of women's prison, with all the famous and infamous prisoners of the 1960s.

She moved to Jersey in 1973, specifically for a job as Deputy Matron at Elizabeth House in La Chasse, which at that time was a hostel for women and children who were temporarily homeless or destitute for any reason. The hostel welcomed an eclectic mix, from ten-days to 90 years-old, and the role was live-in, with long, unsocial hours, seven days a week. When she got married, Pat moved to St Helier House as Deputy Matron.

During her career, Pat’s other jobs included working in the Probate Department at Mourant du Feu and Jeune, and at La Moye Prison as the Farms and Gardens Officer's secretary, before retiring as secretary to two heads of departments at the General Hospital.

Since moving to the Island, Pat has been involved in many charitable, voluntary committees. Among those, she helped set up Jersey SANDS group with the then Chaplain of the General Hospital, and set up the Jersey LIFE group, having gained a Diploma in Counselling through the Jersey Youth Service while volunteering in youth clubs.

She told us that her vast voluntary work had been to ‘help others and try and improve their quality of life, in one way or another’, and it was this ethos that prompted her to apply for a role on the Jersey Consumer Council eight years ago, shortly after our Chairman, Carl Walker, first took up the post and carried out a recruitment campaign.

Pat’s contribution to the Council was greatly appreciated, and she will be sadly missed by our office team, and by her fellow Council members.

Our thoughts and sympathy are with all of Pat’s family and friends.