HONOUR AT LAST FOR FALLEN COPPER

31-12-2007

The Stirrer’s campaign to secure to a monument to fallen West Midlands police officer Mick Swindells is finally bearing fruit.  A memorial stone to Mick, who was stabbed to death in 2004 on a canal towpath in Birmingham is currently being made.

DC Swindells was killed by paranoid schizophrenic Earl Glaister Butler after answering a 999 call and has been posthumously awarded the Queen’s Gallantry Medal.

Yet despite the three-year time lag, there is no public tribute to his sacrifice in the city where he died.

After being contacted by Mick’s concerned colleagues, we highlighted the issue on this site last January (here and here)

That was followed by an open letter to Michael Winner – founder of the Police Memorial Trust – which was published in the Birmingham Mail.

Now the Mail’s crime reporter Mark Cowan reports that an honour will finally be unveiled in the New Year, with the backing of chief constable Paul Scott-Lee (http://tinyurl.com/2w5aue)

The Trust said, “The memorial stone is in the process of being made at the moment."