The father of a murdered police officer has backed calls for a new posthumous award for emergency service workers who die in the line of duty. Bryn Hughes has endorsed a new campaign to persuade the government to launch a new award for police officers, firefighters, paramedics and prison officers killed in service. Neither his daughter Nicola Hughes, 23, from Saddleworth, nor her colleague Fiona Bone, 32, from Sale, were ever given such an award, although there are memorials to their sacrifice.
The two PCs were murdered in a gun-and-grenade attack by fugitive Dale Cregan after he lured them to an address in Mottram-in-Longdendale near Hattersley in September 2012. Now Bryn, a former prison officer, has joined a campaign by the Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file cops, and the Police Superintendents' Association, for a new award to recognise fallen emergency service workers. He said any awards should be backdated.
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