Sad to hear this. He was a genuinely very decent bloke by all accounts and, as is so often the case with men of his stature and strength, a very gentle person.

He did his police training at the old Training Centre in the village of Nutfield in Surrey near where I lived in my ****age years. For a while he was going out with a girl from Redhill who I'd been out with at school a little earlier and she spoke extremely fondly of him.