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Salute for stabbed Pc at funeral | |
(about 6 hours later) | |
Relatives, friends and colleagues of a police officer who died while on duty have paid their final respects to him. | |
Members of the public also joined the congregation for a funeral service for Pc Jonathan Henry, 36, at the Holy Ghost Roman Catholic Church in Luton. | |
It would have been the second anniversary of his marriage to his widow, Mary, and the service was taken by Monsignor Kevin McGinnell. | |
Representatives from all 43 UK forces were also in attendance. | |
Pc Henry's coffin had been received into the church with full police honours on Sunday night when his daughter, Maggie, one last Thursday, attended. | |
The officer's wife entered the church alongside the priest, followed by Pc Henry's mother, Dina, father, Alex, and his brothers and sisters. | |
Funeral cortege | |
Nineteen police officers, in full uniform, formed a guard of honour for the family as they entered the church. | |
Pc Jon Henry, 36 and a father-of-one, was stabbed in June after responding to 999 calls reporting an attack on a window cleaner in Luton, Bedfordshire. | Pc Jon Henry, 36 and a father-of-one, was stabbed in June after responding to 999 calls reporting an attack on a window cleaner in Luton, Bedfordshire. |
Tennyson Obih, 27, of Winsdon Road, Luton, has been charged with murder. | Tennyson Obih, 27, of Winsdon Road, Luton, has been charged with murder. |
After the service, Pc Henry's funeral cortege will stop outside Luton police station so colleagues can say goodbye. | |
Bedfordshire Chief Constable Gillian Parker took the salute, before a private burial in Stopsley cemetery. | |
A spokesman advised of traffic congestion in the area of the Westbourne Road church, and asked motorists to avoid the area. | A spokesman advised of traffic congestion in the area of the Westbourne Road church, and asked motorists to avoid the area. |