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Steven Alan Hamilton Stimpson
Police Constable
Humberside Police
Died 26 January 1998, aged 33
Killed in a road accident, while on patrol in the early morning, when his traffic patrol car left the road, crashed through a fence and overturned, landing on its roof in a field near Tickton, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Alan West Houghton
Police Constable
Lancashire Constabulary
Died 17 March 1998, aged 50
While on mobile patrol at Pilling on 15 March, he collapsed at the wheel of his police vehicle, which then left the road, collided with a stone wall and overturned; the officer having suffered a cerebral haemorrhage from which he died in hospital two days later.
Samuel Cyril Stewart
Reserve Constable (Retired)
Royal Ulster Constabulary
Died 27 March 1998, aged 52
The former officer, who had retired as a full-time RUC Reserve on health grounds the previous year, was shot dead by terrorist gunmen whilst out shopping with his wife in Armagh.
His name is recorded on the Roll of Honour at the
National Police Memorial in London.
Cecil Boyle
Constable
Royal Ulster Constabulary
Died 25 April 1998, aged 55
Collapsed and died after a struggle to arrest a man at a disturbance in Co. Antrim.
John Anthony Bonelle
Police Constable
West Mercia Constabulary
Died 6 May 1998, aged 34
Killed in a road accident, while taking part in an advanced police motorcycle training course, when he lost control of his machine, careered off the road and crashed, at Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales.
David Hadyn Hopkins
Police Constable
West Mercia Constabulary
Died 28 May 1998, aged 41
Fatally injured, while acting as an outrider on a motorcycle escort for a national cycle race, when he was involved in a head-on collision with a car as he rode ahead of the cyclists on the A449 near Malvern.
Ian Raymond Herbert
Detective Constable
Metropolitan Police
Died 11 June 1998, aged 45
Killed in a road accident, whilst engaged on a training exercise with the Stolen Vehicle Unit of the Organised Crime Group, when his unmarked police car was in collision with a lorry near Sevenoaks in Kent.
James William Yardley
Police Constable
Metropolitan Police
Died 16 June 1998, aged 32
Killed in a road accident while travelling to report for firearms training duty at Lippitts Hill training camp when his motorcycle was in collision with a car.
John Ivers
Constable
Royal Ulster Constabulary
Died 24 July 1998, aged 41
Fatally injured in a road traffic accident while travelling to duty in Co. Down.
Michael John Brown
Police Constable
Ministry of Defence Police
Died 27 July 1998, aged 34
Killed when he was accidentally thrown into the water, from a rigid inflatable boat, during a training exercise in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland.
James Telford Heaton
Police Constable
Humberside Police
Died 2 August 1998, aged 30
Fatally injured when he lost control of his Traffic Patrol car, which left the road and crashed on the A1079 bypass road near Beverley, East Yorkshire, while responding on an emergency call to the scene of a bicycle accident.
Robert Foster
Police Constable
Essex Police
Died 10 August 1998, aged 44
As a force firearms instructor he was taking part in a rifleman's training course with the Lancashire Constabulary, when he collapsed and died of heart failure whilst at the practice site in Yorkshire.
Jonathan Stuart Templeton
Police Constable
Humberside Police
Died 7 September 1998, aged 37
Collapsed and died of heart failure while on duty in Hedon Police Station.
Frank Adrian O`Reilly
Constable
Royal Ulster Constabulary
Died 6 October 1998, aged 30
Died as a result of severe head injuries received on 5 September, when he was struck by shrapnel from a blast bomb thrown into police lines, during loyalist disturbances in the Corcrain Estate following the banning of the Orange Order's march through Portadown, Co.Armagh.
His name is recorded on the Roll of Honour at the
National Police Memorial in London.
Stuart Gordon Ross
Police Constable
Warwickshire Constabulary
Died 10 October 1998, aged 34
Killed while acting as the observer in the East Midlands Air Support Unit helicopter, which crashed shortly after take off when it flew into fog and collided with trees, near its base at Husbands Bosworth, Northamptonshire.
John Boyle
Inspector
Strathclyde Police
Died 28 October 1998, aged 49
Collapsed and died of heart failure while on late duty at Police Headquarters.
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