Originally appearing in Nowhere Fast, Nikki was initially assigned to the Lyell Centre to defuse the tension between Harry Cunningham and Leo Dalton after Sam Ryan's departure. Nikki's first appearance in Nowhere Fast part 1 She found work as a forensic anthropologist specialising in Iron Age finds prior to her arrival at the Lyell Centre, Nikki also worked as a pathologist for six months in Johannesburg. Nikki was eventually qualified to be certified by the Home Office to practise pathology. Nikki trained at the Institute of Pathology under Roach she was also mentored by Dr Helen Karamides. When she was twenty, Nikki dated a fellow student named Scott King and intended to go travelling with him, but was instead convinced by Professor Belinda Roach to begin her training as a pathologist right away, leading them breaking up. Her expertise with archaeological finds - in particular bones - led her into that field and she gained her qualifications as a pathologist along the way. Always curious and open-minded, Nikki revelled in her passion for history and anthropology and she began her academic career in those areas, studying in various universities in Europe. Nikki has always been grateful to Hopkins for his kindness and for encouraging her love of science.Īs soon as she could Nikki left the family home and found a university as far as she could from her father. However, she struggled with her unhappy home life at one point, she attempted to run away, but was found and brought back safely by her headteacher, Noel Hopkins. She received a top class education in England where she excelled, particularly in sciences. Nikki's mother died when she was a teenager. There seems to have been domestic violence throughout her childhood, as shown in flash-backs in season 23 episodes 5 & 6, titled Seven Times, which refers to the average number of times a woman tries to leave an abusive relationship before succeeding to do so. When Nikki was a child, her father abruptly left her mother and rarely contacted Nikki, which was quite traumatic for her. Her mother was South African and her father Victor was a English-born businessman. She was born in South Africa, into a well-off Home Counties family.
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