Prayers for dead police officers

The police are “our last line of protection against the savagery of the jungle”, a bishop said today as prayers were held in memory of two policewomen murdered in a gun and grenade attack.

The Rt Rev Mark Davies, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Shrewsbury, told churchgoers in Hattersley where the horrific killings took place that the community “must stand as one” to avoid such deaths being accepted as “commonplace”.