The widow of a special constable murdered by an IRA man, Paul Magee, has said the British government's decision to repatriate him totally betrays his memory, Rachel Donnelly reports from London.
Ms Fiona Goodman, whose husband, Glenn, was shot by Magee in 1992 while he was on the run from prison in Northern Ireland, said the government had used his murder as a "bargaining tool" in the peace process.
Ms Goodman spoke of her anger yesterday after she visited her husband's grave in Kirkby Wharfe, in Yorkshire, with her son, Tom, aged six. The decision to send Magee to Ireland, which has angered Ulster Unionists, had devastated the Goodman family. "I have come here because I wanted to make the point that Magee is going back to Ireland and will be near his family. The only way that I, Tom and Glenn's family can visit him is by going to the cemetery."