Memorial for murdered policeman

The plaque will be outside the flat where Mr Oake was stabbed

A Special Branch officer who was murdered as he tried to restrain a suspected terrorist is to be honoured with a memorial plaque.

Det Con Stephen Oake was stabbed to death by Kamel Bourgass after an anti-terror raid on a flat in Crumpsall, Manchester, in January 2003.

Despite being repeatedly stabbed, the father-of-three held on to Bourgass.

The Police Memorial Trust's stone memorial will be unveiled next month, at the flat where Mr Oake died.

His widow, Lesley, is expected to unveil the memorial in a ceremony that will also be attended by Mr Oake's father Robin and mother Christine, of Colby, Isle of Man.

It will be a fitting permanent tribute to a someone who gave his life for the local community Michael Winner Police Memorial Trust chairman

A short service will also be held attended by the Oake children, Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Mike Todd and the film director Michael Winner.

Mr Winner is chairman of the Police Memorial Trust, which organises memorials for police officers killed on duty.

He said: "It will be one of our normal, upright memorials outside the house where he fell and simply says 'Here fell DC Stephen Oake' and the date.

"It will be a fitting permanent tribute to someone who gave his life for the local community."

The officer's killer grabbed a kitchen knife, slashing and stabbing officers and knifing DC Oake fatally, before he was restrained.

Bourgass was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in 2004. He was also convicted of taking part in a ricin poison plot.

Despite Mr Oake's heroics, he was denied a posthumous George Cross by the Home Office.

Mr Winner set up the Police Memorial Trust after the death of Pc Yvonne Fletcher in 1984 outside the Libyan Embassy in London.