The brave widow of PC Ian Broadhurst revealed how she had kept her husband's police helmet on top of the TV at their home in Birkenshaw as a constant reminder of him.

Eilisa Broadhurst, 26, told how a month after he was shot she had still been expecting him to come home.

And she said: "A week after it happened I dreamed that he had come back. He was sitting on a sofa in the corner of the room and he said 'the police have got it wrong, I'm not dead at all'."

Eilisa told how she had hardly left their home following the murder and felt a "presence" there.

She had been supported by her parents, Martin and Pat Glen, who left their home in Glasgow to be with her on the day of the shooting and stayed with her.

Scottish-born Eilisa and Ian, 34, were devoted to each other and had been married for little more than two years, settling in Birkenshaw after their wedding.

The couple had met on holiday in Tenerife in 1996. They had dreamed of having children but she had wanted to wait so they could enjoy some time together first.

PC Broadhurst was born in Sheffield but moved to Cookridge, Leeds, with his family as a young child. He worked as a driver, an installation engineer and a maintenance manager before applying to join West Yorkshire Police in 1996.

He joined the Holbeck division in Leeds, two years later but always wanted to be a traffic patrol officer, having a love of motor sport and a passion for motor vehicles.

In November 1999 he attended a police driving course and in March 2003 achieved his dream when he was posted to the traffic unit at Killingbeck, where he was stationed at the time of his death.

West Yorkshire's Chief Constable Colin Cramphorn said that to PC Broadhurst policing was much more than just a job and he was universally recognised as a "thoroughly decent and honourable man".

He was a regular charity fund-raiser and after his death, colleagues at Killingbeck received about 1,000 letters, poems and cards of condolence, including support from relatives of other officers killed on duty and people PC Broadhurst had arrested.

His funeral at Leeds Parish Church was attended by more than 800 mourners.