Thousands of police say last farewell to
‘brave rock’ officer killed in gun attack

Fallen policewoman Fiona Bone was kind and gentle but also a “brave rock of a woman”, mourners heard yesterday.

The 32-year-old officer was planning her wedding and had become the adopted parent of her partner’s five-year-old daughter, when her life was violently taken, the service heard.

Again police and public turned out in force to pay their respects at Manchester Cathedral to one of two officers who died in a gun and grenade attack in Hattersley, Tameside on September 18. Her colleague Pc Nicola Hughes, 23, was laid to rest yesterday.

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Sergeant Stephen Miskell told mourners: “Fiona represented the best that humanity has to offer the world but that makes her loss even greater. Fiona was a woman of many contrasts. She was a calm and a gentle little bookworm, and yet a strong, brave rock of a woman.”

Earlier the main thoroughfare in Manchester city centre was lined with thousands of officers from across the UK.

Sir Alex Ferguson was among 1,000 mourners in the cathedral. The Pc thought of herself as Scottish and is to be buried in Scotland.

Pc Bone lived with Miss Clare Curran and Miss Curran’s daughter, Jessie, five, in Sale, Cheshire. Jessie, dressed in pink and white, held her mother’s hand in the cathedral followed by Pc Bone’s parents Paul and June, who live on the Isle of Man.

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