Some say that PC Joseph Graham’s last words, as he lay dying on the ground, were to ask who would look after his elderly widowed mother. She was, after all, the reason he had joined the police in the first place.

In trying to break up a fight between two drunken workmen, one of them had turned on him, landing a tremendous punch to his head. As he fell to the floor, his skull smashed on a paving stone. His attacker proceeded to kick him in the groin and abdomen as he lay dying on the ground. 

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