Memorial for Manchester, UK police hero
Press Association, September 12, 2006
Police hero Stephen Oake is due to be honoured with a memorial stone at the place where he was murdered by an al Qaida terrorist. Detective Constable Oake, 40, was stabbed to death as he tried to restrain Kamel Bourgass after an anti-terror raid on a house in Crumpsall, Manchester, in January 2003. The father-of-three was the first British police officer killed in the current war on terror. A permanent stone memorial will be unveiled by his widow, Lesley, outside the house where her husband died. A short service will also be held attended by his children, Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Mike Todd and film director Michael Winner. Winner said: "It will be one of our normal, upright memorials outside the house where he fell and simply says "Here fell DC Stephen Oake" and the date. The officer's killer grabbed a kitchen knife, slashing and stabbing officers and knifing Dc Oake fatally, before he was restrained. Bourgass, already on the run after police smashed a ricin terror plot in London, grabbed a kitchen knife in an attempt to escape. He was jailed for life at the Old Bailey last year.
Press Association Ltd., 2006
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