Dead Pc's baby helped by runner

Pc Jon Henry with his baby daughter Maggie

A police sergeant is preparing to take part in the London Marathon to raise money for the baby daughter of a fellow officer fatally stabbed last June.

Pc Jon Henry, 36, was stabbed after responding to reports of an attack on a window cleaner in Luton, Bedfordshire.

Sgt Iain Reid reached him first and was with him when he died. This weekend he will run the race to raise money for Pc Henry's daughter Maggie.

He said: "Jon lives on through her and that's a wonderful thing."

Sgt Reid recalled the day Pc Henry died: "I remember the radio operator and one of my colleagues shouting over the radio and you just knew something terrible had happened.

"Even now you keep expecting him to turn up on shift and do awful awful jokes."

Representatives of the UK's police forces attended the funeral

Pc Henry had one of the highest arrest rates in the division and people he had arrested were among those who laid flowers where he died.

Relatives, friends and colleagues and members of the public attended his funeral service at the Holy Ghost Roman Catholic Church in Luton.

Representatives from all 43 UK police forces were also there.

Ikechukwu Tennyson Obih, 27, of Winsdon Road, Luton, was charged with murdering Pc Henry.

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