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officers from all over wanting to help out on days off. Messages poured in from the UK and across the world.”

Last Monday, family and former colleagues of the two officers gathered for a minute’s silence in a memorial garden at Hyde police station.

Speaking about the anniversary, Julian said: “It was five years ago the other day and he’s obviously locked up for the rest of his life.

“He took two brilliant female officers who were going to have wonderful careers.

“He was the first person to kill two female officers. It was one of the most horrendous crimes of the last 100 years.”

Julian’s book also reveals how he lost the police job he loved after a random drug test last December showed cocaine in his system. The dad of three insists he has never taken illegal drugs and the traces must have been in anti-stress pills he bought on the internet.

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Before becoming a policeman in 1997, he had been a professional footballer for 16 years, playing for the likes of Scunthorpe, Barnsley, St Mirren and Raith Rovers.

He says in his book: “I had drug