Colleagues gather in remembrance of policewomen gunned down on estate

GRIEVING relatives and colleagues of two murdered policewomen have taken part in a vigil and minute’s silence on the estate where they were gunned down.
By The Newsroom
Published 26th Sep 2012, 07:00 BST

Pcs Fiona Bone, 32, and Nicola Hughes, 23, were ambushed and killed as they went to answer a routine 999 call to a burglary on the Hattersley estate in Greater Manchester.

Yesterday hundreds of people gathered at the murder scene and fell silent at 10.58am to mark a week since the attack.

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At the entrance to the road was a stage with two large pictures of the fallen constables.

Police officers, some carrying candles and flowers, stood in the torrential rain with their heads bowed as the silence was observed.

Meanwhile, a Conservative Derbyshire councillor was sacked yesterday after making a joke about the shooting deaths in front of the wife of a serving police officer.

Mr Stephenson said: “If you get 100 points for shooting one policewoman and 200 points for shooting two policewomen, how many do you get for shooting a lawyer?”

Dale Cregan, 29, has been charged with their murders and the murders of two men, father and son David and Mark Short, in two separate attacks earlier in the year.

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