Memorial to PC Ian vandalised (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)
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Memorial to PC Ian vandalised
7:08pm Monday 13th February 2012 in News
PC Ian Broadhurst
Vandals have damaged a memorial to a Bradford police officer who was murdered in the line of duty, police said today.
PC Ian Broadhurst, 34, of Birkinshaw, was shot dead by the former US marine David Bieber, 42, on Boxing Day 2003.
West Yorkshire police said paint appeared to have been thrown over the stone memorial, which stands in the Fearnville area of Leeds.
PC Broadhurst's colleagues, PC Neil Roper and PC James Banks, were shot and injured that day after they pulled Bieber over for driving a car displaying false number plates.
The American bodybuilder, who was wanted by the FBI for ordering two killings in Florida, was found guilty of murder and two counts of attempted murder in 2004 and was jailed for life, with a recommendation he should never be released.
In 2008 Appeal Court judges said Bieber should serve a minimum of 37 years in prison.
