Four fallen Heroes.
Last night four RCMP officers were killed in the line of duty busting a marijuana grow house operation north of Edmonton. A very sad day for Canadians and a very sad day for Law Enforcement.
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My prayers are with the families of the officers.
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It's tragic, but how will decriminalizing pot make the pot houses flourish? I think it is a shame that the outcome of this one anti-police nut's Rambo act may be scrapping the decriminalization bill. I know someone who was arrested and jailed for a baggie of pot. ~that's it. I know a guy that pulled a gun on a guy in a fit of road rage and shot out all four of his victim's tires then theatened to kill him. ~he got out on bail within 24 hours and he was never imprisoned, he got off on a year's probation, no jail. It's better to have room in the prisons for the real criminals.
Oh, I do not smoke pot either, I just don't think it deserves its illegal status; alcohol-of which I do sometimes imbibe- has much worse side-effects.
Also, my heart goes out to the families and the community. Every few years or so, we have multiple officer deaths in attempted busts, it's always very difficult to deal with. I forgot that Canada rarely ever experiences such violence.
Oh, I do not smoke pot either, I just don't think it deserves its illegal status; alcohol-of which I do sometimes imbibe- has much worse side-effects.
Also, my heart goes out to the families and the community. Every few years or so, we have multiple officer deaths in attempted busts, it's always very difficult to deal with. I forgot that Canada rarely ever experiences such violence.
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i have been to too many police funerals:-1 .....my deepest condolences go to the loved ones of the slain officers.
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lady cop wrote: i have been to too many police funerals:-1 .....my deepest condolences go to the loved ones of the slain officers.
Such very very sad news, it brings it home to me the dangers LC faces daily.... the sooner you're here in Britain the better, Please take care sweetyxx
Such very very sad news, it brings it home to me the dangers LC faces daily.... the sooner you're here in Britain the better, Please take care sweetyxx
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and that reminds me....will you be continuing your avocation in Great Britain? They don't have guns there! (Well, not so many anyways) 
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Jives wrote: and that reminds me....will you be continuing your avocation in Great Britain? They don't have guns there! (Well, not so many anyways) ABBEY, thanks dearest lady! and Jives there are some armed services in England, but i have to gain full citizenship before i can be any kind of copper over there....the tube (subway) police are armed as well as the Queen's personal guards. let me get Bothwell to explain, i get confused!
ABBEY, thanks dearest lady! and Jives there are some armed services in England, but i have to gain full citizenship before i can be any kind of copper over there....the tube (subway) police are armed as well as the Queen's personal guards. let me get Bothwell to explain, i get confused!Unprecedented and Unspeakable
Armed police officers here are generally to be found in transport hubs, train staions, airports etc. Very rarely will you see armed officers on the streets. there will however at any given time in any given town a number of squad cars with armed response teams carrying weapons in the vehicle. Protection officers for both the Royal Family and Politicians are also routinely armed.
Yes you do have to be a British citizen to be a policeman in this country, a lot of our correctional functions have now been handed over to private security firms although our system is very different to the USA and particularly Florida where LC hails from.
Yes you do have to be a British citizen to be a policeman in this country, a lot of our correctional functions have now been handed over to private security firms although our system is very different to the USA and particularly Florida where LC hails from.
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LC, over the past few years, I have seen many reports of officers killed in Southern Florida, so I can imagine that you have had to attend too many. Even routine traffic stops are potentially a life risking thing for an officer. This year, we had an officer slain just for a traffic stop. Gone are the Andy Griffith days of the small town sherriff being your friend and everyone loving him.
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Whenever cops are killed in the line of duty I get angry. I truly hate the drug dealers and whackos who take these lives. Like they don't ruin enough lives already. Scum, each and every one of them, and it stirs the vigilante in me. I realize that's not a solution, but it really chaps my a$$, and I wish I could do something. My thoughts are with the families. :yh_pray
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This mans own father said he was "the son of satan" He was a recluse and apparently had a severe hate of for police.
I wish the families of these 4 brave officers deepest sympathies and strength.
I wish the families of these 4 brave officers deepest sympathies and strength.
�You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.�
• Mae West
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Beth wrote: It's tragic, but how will decriminalizing pot make the pot houses flourish? I think it is a shame that the outcome of this one anti-police nut's Rambo act may be scrapping the decriminalization bill. I know someone who was arrested and jailed for a baggie of pot. ~that's it. I know a guy that pulled a gun on a guy in a fit of road rage and shot out all four of his victim's tires then theatened to kill him. ~he got out on bail within 24 hours and he was never imprisoned, he got off on a year's probation, no jail. It's better to have room in the prisons for the real criminals.
Oh, I do not smoke pot either, I just don't think it deserves its illegal status; alcohol-of which I do sometimes imbibe- has much worse side-effects.
Also, my heart goes out to the families and the community. Every few years or so, we have multiple officer deaths in attempted busts, it's always very difficult to deal with. I forgot that Canada rarely ever experiences such violence.
In my opinion Beth it is not about the grass.
Some people just want to make an easy buck and if the law makes grass legal these people will do something else.
They didn't kill the police over grass it was over easy money.
Oh, I do not smoke pot either, I just don't think it deserves its illegal status; alcohol-of which I do sometimes imbibe- has much worse side-effects.
Also, my heart goes out to the families and the community. Every few years or so, we have multiple officer deaths in attempted busts, it's always very difficult to deal with. I forgot that Canada rarely ever experiences such violence.
In my opinion Beth it is not about the grass.
Some people just want to make an easy buck and if the law makes grass legal these people will do something else.
They didn't kill the police over grass it was over easy money.
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first identified RCMP officers
Police have not officially named the deceased officers but one of them has been identified as 29-year-old Const. Broack Myrol, originally of Red Deer, Alta.
Friends say Myrol had joined the Mayerthorpe detachment a mere two weeks ago, and had recently become engaged to his girlfriend.
A national newspaper also identified one of the deceased as Const. Leo Johnston, a 33-year-old ace marksman. Johnson had been on the force about four years and had received Crown Pistols and Crown Rifles badges.
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They now take their place of honor on the other side. We are proud our your services. Go in Peace
Police have not officially named the deceased officers but one of them has been identified as 29-year-old Const. Broack Myrol, originally of Red Deer, Alta.
Friends say Myrol had joined the Mayerthorpe detachment a mere two weeks ago, and had recently become engaged to his girlfriend.
A national newspaper also identified one of the deceased as Const. Leo Johnston, a 33-year-old ace marksman. Johnson had been on the force about four years and had received Crown Pistols and Crown Rifles badges.
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They now take their place of honor on the other side. We are proud our your services. Go in Peace
�You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.�
• Mae West
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Absolutely horrible. This kind of thing makes you sick.
I wonder if the police had been briefed on this guy. LC, would you know? If this guy was known to have hated police - and the dad claimed he was the son of satan, I would have expected the first approach to be via defensive vehicle or stealth tactics at night/early in the morning.
I wonder if the police had been briefed on this guy. LC, would you know? If this guy was known to have hated police - and the dad claimed he was the son of satan, I would have expected the first approach to be via defensive vehicle or stealth tactics at night/early in the morning.
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i cannot speak for RCMP, but police tactics are generally similar....if we are going to stage a raid on a location, we are briefed on WHO the H we are dealing with, and if warranted, will use SWAT, approach in stealth, use a battering ram, and have snipers( and sometimes armored vehicle). the element of surprise is essential. i don't know how this incident came down, but clearly he was laying in wait, i wonder if he had a tip.
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It's hard to tell if he had a tip. They are keeping the details under-wrap.
But then again, living out in the country (and in his case - way out in the country) it is really easy to see, hear, and react to someone coming onto your property. I really hope the LEO's didn't walk into this un-informed. Because if they did, this negligence of intelligence tipped the scales of favor away from them. Just awful.
But then again, living out in the country (and in his case - way out in the country) it is really easy to see, hear, and react to someone coming onto your property. I really hope the LEO's didn't walk into this un-informed. Because if they did, this negligence of intelligence tipped the scales of favor away from them. Just awful.
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This from MSN.ca
Const. Peter Christopher Schiemann, 25;
Const. Anthony Fitzgerald Orion Gordon, 28;
Const. Lionide Nicholas Johnston, 32,
Const. Brock Warren Myrol, 29.
The suspected killer has been positively identified as James Roszko. He died in the incident.
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In a recent local newspaper profile, Myrol said he decided to become a Mountie about three years ago.
"I wanted the opportunity to work with people and be able to make a difference,'' Myrol told the Mayerthorpe Freelancer. "Over time, I saw all the good things you could do for people, and I enjoyed that.''
Reporting from scene of Thursday's deadly shootout, 130 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, CTV's Todd Battis said Myrol wanted nothing more than to make his community a better place to live.
"He had been a security guard for some time and decided that he would join the RCMP because he wanted to get a greater sense of working with the community, and he was really enjoying his work in the short amount of time that he was on the job," Battis said.
"We know that he got into the RCMP and that was the thrill of his lifetime."
Myrol had been on the job just two weeks, after moving to Mayerthorpe, Alberta, with his fiancee Anjila.
Talking reporters in Red Deer, Alberta, Const. Myrol's mother Colleen said her son's suspected killer, "is a person who is deeply disturbed and ill."
"It is time to end the violence," she said, "Brock knew that."
"It is time to take our liberal-minded attitudes to task," she added, challenging the prime minister to "give the power back to the police."
Const. Johnson had reportedly been on the force for about four years, during which time he and his twin brother earned the designation the Crown Pistols and Crown Rifles badges that signify their status as ace marksmen.
Unlike the three other Mayerthorpe-based constables, Const. Gordon was with the RCMP detachment in Whitecourt.
The RCMP says details of the memorials and funerals for its fallen officers have yet to be made.
But already, residents of the Mayerthorpe are preparing for a public memorial to honour the fallen heroes, the town's Chief Administrative Officer Greg Gayton told CTV.ca.
The community of 1,500 has not decided when its memorial will be held, either, Gayton said, describing his community as filled with "sadness and a great feeling of loss."
A sign posted outside the Mayerthorpe high school reads "Our hearts go out to you" and students are wearing red ribbons to honour the men.
Condolences are pouring in from several law enforcement agencies across the country, who are feeling the loss of their western colleagues.
Flags are flying at half staff at RCMP detachments across the country. A number of RCMP offices have placed a book of condolences in their lobbies, to honour their peers.
Const. Peter Christopher Schiemann, 25;
Const. Anthony Fitzgerald Orion Gordon, 28;
Const. Lionide Nicholas Johnston, 32,
Const. Brock Warren Myrol, 29.
The suspected killer has been positively identified as James Roszko. He died in the incident.
Condolence Forum
In a recent local newspaper profile, Myrol said he decided to become a Mountie about three years ago.
"I wanted the opportunity to work with people and be able to make a difference,'' Myrol told the Mayerthorpe Freelancer. "Over time, I saw all the good things you could do for people, and I enjoyed that.''
Reporting from scene of Thursday's deadly shootout, 130 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, CTV's Todd Battis said Myrol wanted nothing more than to make his community a better place to live.
"He had been a security guard for some time and decided that he would join the RCMP because he wanted to get a greater sense of working with the community, and he was really enjoying his work in the short amount of time that he was on the job," Battis said.
"We know that he got into the RCMP and that was the thrill of his lifetime."
Myrol had been on the job just two weeks, after moving to Mayerthorpe, Alberta, with his fiancee Anjila.
Talking reporters in Red Deer, Alberta, Const. Myrol's mother Colleen said her son's suspected killer, "is a person who is deeply disturbed and ill."
"It is time to end the violence," she said, "Brock knew that."
"It is time to take our liberal-minded attitudes to task," she added, challenging the prime minister to "give the power back to the police."
Const. Johnson had reportedly been on the force for about four years, during which time he and his twin brother earned the designation the Crown Pistols and Crown Rifles badges that signify their status as ace marksmen.
Unlike the three other Mayerthorpe-based constables, Const. Gordon was with the RCMP detachment in Whitecourt.
The RCMP says details of the memorials and funerals for its fallen officers have yet to be made.
But already, residents of the Mayerthorpe are preparing for a public memorial to honour the fallen heroes, the town's Chief Administrative Officer Greg Gayton told CTV.ca.
The community of 1,500 has not decided when its memorial will be held, either, Gayton said, describing his community as filled with "sadness and a great feeling of loss."
A sign posted outside the Mayerthorpe high school reads "Our hearts go out to you" and students are wearing red ribbons to honour the men.
Condolences are pouring in from several law enforcement agencies across the country, who are feeling the loss of their western colleagues.
Flags are flying at half staff at RCMP detachments across the country. A number of RCMP offices have placed a book of condolences in their lobbies, to honour their peers.
�You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.�
• Mae West
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And this from our local news paper... that is all I can find for now.
Gunman kills four Mounties
Raid on grow op one of nation's worst RCMP bloodbaths
By PAUL COWAN AND DOUG BEAZLEY, SUN MEDIA
ROCHFORT BRIDGE, Alta. -- A crazed gunman with a simmering hate for cops shot four RCMP officers to death at a rural marijuana grow operation yesterday, the country's worst police bloodbath in more than a century. Mounties exchanged shots with gunman James Roszko, 47, on a farm near the village of Rochfort Bridge, 123 km northwest of Edmonton around 10 a.m.
Four hours later, they moved in to find their fallen comrades, three from Mayerthorpe and one from Whitecourt, and the gunman dead.
Family members last night confirmed one of the officers was Const. Brock Myrol, 29, who had only been on the job since Feb. 14.
"The loss of four police officers in a single event is unprecedented. You would have to go back to 1885 to the Northwest Rebellion to see something of this scale," a devastated K-Division commanding officer Bill Sweeney said at the Mayerthorpe RCMP detachment.
"Four members of the RCMP were killed today in the line of duty. This is a terrible shock for all of us and we are in a state of mourning. Our hearts and prayers are with the families."
Killing police was something Roszko had apparently planned for some time.
Sources say he recently offered a local teen $10,000 to shoot and kill a police officer, going so far as to drive him to the officer's home in a "dry run" and showing the teen how to break in.
Police sources said the grow operation was raided by the Edmonton Police Service and RCMP Green Team Wednesday night.
The raid was preceded by a brief vehicle pursuit of Roszko, which ended after he evaded police, said a source.
At the grow operation, two officers remained on guard when the rest of team left around 3 a.m. yesterday.
"They were shot and two more who came out to the farm later in the morning were ambushed," said one source.
Sources said two of the officers were executed as they sat in their cruiser.
The gunman continued to fire as other officers arrived on scene. One source said the gunman was armed with a Heckler & Koch .308 semi-automatic assault rifle, specially made for combat.
The site was secured and the air space over the area was closed.
Tactical resources were deployed, including the RCMP emergency response teams, and major crimes, as well as an Edmonton city police chopper. A total of about 35 officers swarmed the area.
About 20 soldiers and three vehicles from the Edmonton Garrison were also dispatched to the scene of the shootout, but it ended shortly before they arrived.
Around 2 p.m., three dark- coloured SUVs drove onto the property.
Roughly 10 minutes later, two officers wearing paramilitary fatigues and bullet-proof vests appeared at a fence in front of the quonset barn, a long low metal structure.
The Mounties had their rifles aimed inside the barn. At the same time, another group of similarly equipped officers approached the barn from the north side with a pair of police dogs -- out of the line of sight of a possible shooter in the barn.
Tactical officers waited another 10 or 15 minutes, and while paying attention to an object on the ground, made their way to the barn entrance using a tractor as cover.
Two officers then appeared walking away from the barn, dragging what appeared to be a body by the elbows.
Mounties then moved in en masse.
"The scene was not what officers were hoping to encounter," RCMP spokesman Cpl. Wayne Oakes from the Mayerthorpe detachment said last night.
"We are deeply saddened by the death of four RCMP members."
Oakes said the gunman was found dead in the quonset. Reports said he had taken his own life.
"Support is being offered to the families of our fallen officers and to the members and families of our staff at both detachments," Oakes said.
Alberta Solicitor General Harvey Cenaiko called the slayings "senseless."
"This is a tragic loss to the RCMP and to the community of Mayerthorpe. The officers were well-respected. We will be meeting with some of the family members shortly," he said.
"It just goes to the fact that illegal grow operations... (are) all around us."
The shooting was the worst involving the deaths of RCMP officers in recent history, but the worst occurred in March 1885 at the Battle of Duck Lake when a skirmish broke out between members of the North West Mounted Police and a group of Metis and Natives led by Gabriel Dumont.
Twelve members of the police were killed.
Gunman kills four Mounties
Raid on grow op one of nation's worst RCMP bloodbaths
By PAUL COWAN AND DOUG BEAZLEY, SUN MEDIA
ROCHFORT BRIDGE, Alta. -- A crazed gunman with a simmering hate for cops shot four RCMP officers to death at a rural marijuana grow operation yesterday, the country's worst police bloodbath in more than a century. Mounties exchanged shots with gunman James Roszko, 47, on a farm near the village of Rochfort Bridge, 123 km northwest of Edmonton around 10 a.m.
Four hours later, they moved in to find their fallen comrades, three from Mayerthorpe and one from Whitecourt, and the gunman dead.
Family members last night confirmed one of the officers was Const. Brock Myrol, 29, who had only been on the job since Feb. 14.
"The loss of four police officers in a single event is unprecedented. You would have to go back to 1885 to the Northwest Rebellion to see something of this scale," a devastated K-Division commanding officer Bill Sweeney said at the Mayerthorpe RCMP detachment.
"Four members of the RCMP were killed today in the line of duty. This is a terrible shock for all of us and we are in a state of mourning. Our hearts and prayers are with the families."
Killing police was something Roszko had apparently planned for some time.
Sources say he recently offered a local teen $10,000 to shoot and kill a police officer, going so far as to drive him to the officer's home in a "dry run" and showing the teen how to break in.
Police sources said the grow operation was raided by the Edmonton Police Service and RCMP Green Team Wednesday night.
The raid was preceded by a brief vehicle pursuit of Roszko, which ended after he evaded police, said a source.
At the grow operation, two officers remained on guard when the rest of team left around 3 a.m. yesterday.
"They were shot and two more who came out to the farm later in the morning were ambushed," said one source.
Sources said two of the officers were executed as they sat in their cruiser.
The gunman continued to fire as other officers arrived on scene. One source said the gunman was armed with a Heckler & Koch .308 semi-automatic assault rifle, specially made for combat.
The site was secured and the air space over the area was closed.
Tactical resources were deployed, including the RCMP emergency response teams, and major crimes, as well as an Edmonton city police chopper. A total of about 35 officers swarmed the area.
About 20 soldiers and three vehicles from the Edmonton Garrison were also dispatched to the scene of the shootout, but it ended shortly before they arrived.
Around 2 p.m., three dark- coloured SUVs drove onto the property.
Roughly 10 minutes later, two officers wearing paramilitary fatigues and bullet-proof vests appeared at a fence in front of the quonset barn, a long low metal structure.
The Mounties had their rifles aimed inside the barn. At the same time, another group of similarly equipped officers approached the barn from the north side with a pair of police dogs -- out of the line of sight of a possible shooter in the barn.
Tactical officers waited another 10 or 15 minutes, and while paying attention to an object on the ground, made their way to the barn entrance using a tractor as cover.
Two officers then appeared walking away from the barn, dragging what appeared to be a body by the elbows.
Mounties then moved in en masse.
"The scene was not what officers were hoping to encounter," RCMP spokesman Cpl. Wayne Oakes from the Mayerthorpe detachment said last night.
"We are deeply saddened by the death of four RCMP members."
Oakes said the gunman was found dead in the quonset. Reports said he had taken his own life.
"Support is being offered to the families of our fallen officers and to the members and families of our staff at both detachments," Oakes said.
Alberta Solicitor General Harvey Cenaiko called the slayings "senseless."
"This is a tragic loss to the RCMP and to the community of Mayerthorpe. The officers were well-respected. We will be meeting with some of the family members shortly," he said.
"It just goes to the fact that illegal grow operations... (are) all around us."
The shooting was the worst involving the deaths of RCMP officers in recent history, but the worst occurred in March 1885 at the Battle of Duck Lake when a skirmish broke out between members of the North West Mounted Police and a group of Metis and Natives led by Gabriel Dumont.
Twelve members of the police were killed.
�You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.�
• Mae West
• Mae West
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abbey wrote: Such very very sad news, it brings it home to me the dangers LC faces daily.... the sooner you're here in Britain the better, Please take care sweetyxx
Abbey, just after I got here a couple years ago, I heard on the news that a PC was shot and killed while making a routine traffic stop to check out this guy in a stolen car. Come to find out, it was an american. This absolutely outraged me! I just hope he gets the kind of treatment here for that crime, that he CERTAINLY would in the states. My condolonces Canada. LC, please be careful.
Widow's 'hate' for police killer
The widow of Pc Ian Broadhurst, shot dead in Leeds on Boxing Day 2003, says his killer has "taken away my dreams".
On Thursday, 38-year-old former US marine David Bieber was given a life sentence for the policeman's murder.
Eilisa Broadhurst, 25, told the Daily Mail newspaper: "I can still hear his voice now, his American accent, and I hate him so much."
Bieber was also found guilty of the attempted murder of Pcs Neil Roper and James Banks.
Mr Broadhurst, 34, was killed while checking a BMW car which he suspected had been stolen.
Bieber shot him and his two colleagues and then fired the fatal bullet while his victim was lying on the ground injured.
Ian walked out of the house and out of our lives
Eilisa Broadhurst
Mrs Broadhurst says she was pleased Bieber has been given a "whole life" sentence for her husband's murder.
She said: "I cried with relief when he was sentenced to life.
"I felt a weight had been lifted off my shoulders."
She last saw her husband as he left his mother's house where the couple were attending a Christmas get-together.
Mrs Broadhurst said: "My last thoughts of Ian was we were sat together watching a film on TV. We were happy and laughing.
"Halfway through he said he had to go on duty. He walked out of the house and out of our lives."
A jury at Newcastle Crown Court took just three hours to convict Bieber of shooting the three officers.
It later emerged he is wanted by police in Florida over a plot to hire a hitman to kill a love rival.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/e ... 064559.stm
Published: 2004/12/03 09:52:26 GMT
Abbey, just after I got here a couple years ago, I heard on the news that a PC was shot and killed while making a routine traffic stop to check out this guy in a stolen car. Come to find out, it was an american. This absolutely outraged me! I just hope he gets the kind of treatment here for that crime, that he CERTAINLY would in the states. My condolonces Canada. LC, please be careful.
Widow's 'hate' for police killer
The widow of Pc Ian Broadhurst, shot dead in Leeds on Boxing Day 2003, says his killer has "taken away my dreams".
On Thursday, 38-year-old former US marine David Bieber was given a life sentence for the policeman's murder.
Eilisa Broadhurst, 25, told the Daily Mail newspaper: "I can still hear his voice now, his American accent, and I hate him so much."
Bieber was also found guilty of the attempted murder of Pcs Neil Roper and James Banks.
Mr Broadhurst, 34, was killed while checking a BMW car which he suspected had been stolen.
Bieber shot him and his two colleagues and then fired the fatal bullet while his victim was lying on the ground injured.
Ian walked out of the house and out of our lives
Eilisa Broadhurst
Mrs Broadhurst says she was pleased Bieber has been given a "whole life" sentence for her husband's murder.
She said: "I cried with relief when he was sentenced to life.
"I felt a weight had been lifted off my shoulders."
She last saw her husband as he left his mother's house where the couple were attending a Christmas get-together.
Mrs Broadhurst said: "My last thoughts of Ian was we were sat together watching a film on TV. We were happy and laughing.
"Halfway through he said he had to go on duty. He walked out of the house and out of our lives."
A jury at Newcastle Crown Court took just three hours to convict Bieber of shooting the three officers.
It later emerged he is wanted by police in Florida over a plot to hire a hitman to kill a love rival.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/e ... 064559.stm
Published: 2004/12/03 09:52:26 GMT
~Quoth the Raven, Nevermore!~
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the latest here from retired RCMP officer,
our force was ill prepared it should have been a tactical squad going in there with more experience given Rozckos history of violence and hate for cops
Some of the killers family members attended a memorial yesterday for the fallen officers.
How sad to have such a horrific family member, and good on the relatives to support the RCMP when their own son was the killer. Tough road ahead for those folks.
our force was ill prepared it should have been a tactical squad going in there with more experience given Rozckos history of violence and hate for cops
Some of the killers family members attended a memorial yesterday for the fallen officers.
How sad to have such a horrific family member, and good on the relatives to support the RCMP when their own son was the killer. Tough road ahead for those folks.
�You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.�
• Mae West
• Mae West