A MEMORIAL service is to be held a decade after Special Constable Glenn Goodman was shot dead by an IRA terrorist in North Yorkshire.

Mr Goodman was murdered in June 1992 after he and colleague PC Sandy Kelly stopped a car on the A64, near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire.

Wanted IRA gunman Paul McGee and accomplice Michael O'Brien opened fire, killing Mr Goodman and seriously wounding PC Kelly.

Details of next month's memorial service are yet to be announced, but Mr Goodman's father, Brian, will be meeting with North Yorkshire Police's padre next week to discuss arrangements.

"We are very pleased that a memorial service is planned," said Mr Goodman, who lives near Tadcaster with his wife, Margaret.

They hope the service will be in Tadcaster and Mr Goodman's widow, Fiona, and son Tom, 11, plan to travel from their new home in Scotland to attend.

After the murder, Magee was jailed for life at the Old Bailey, but was freed under the Northern Ireland Good Friday agreement in 2000.

His accomplice, O'Brien, has also been released.

Mr Goodman said he was still bitter about the releases, and did not believe that the freeing of IRA prisoners had brought about peace.

He said he had nothing but scorn for the politicians involved in the Good Friday agreement.

Mr Goodman's partner on the fateful night, Sandy Kelly, said he intended to be at the memorial service.

He hoped to lay a wreath in memory of Mr Goodman.

"I am very pleased that North Yorkshire police have chosen to remember Glenn in this way," he said.