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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Politics
Francis Louie C. Añiga

SHOCKING: Pc matthew blades badge number worn at funeral as every uk force sent a final salute - What They Never Told You

Hundreds of people lined the street at the funeral of PC Matthew Blades who was killed in a crash (Credit: JonHare93/Flickr)

Hundreds of police officers from across the UK lined a Hartlepool street on Wednesday for the funeral of PC Matthew Blades, the 37-year-old officer killed in a wrong-way crash on the A66 last month.

PC Blades and his colleague, 38-year-old PC Tom Clough, died on 22 August when their marked armed response vehicle collided head-on with a Volkswagen Passat travelling the wrong way near South Bank, close to Middlesbrough.

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