IT WAS a murder that shocked North Yorkshire - and shattered the lives of the parents, wife and son of Special Constable Glenn Goodman.

Now the tenth anniversary of his death at the hands of an IRA terrorist is set to be marked by a special memorial service next month.

Glenn's father, Brian, hopes everyone in North Yorkshire will take the opportunity to remember a brave Special who died while out on routine patrol in the early hours of June 7, 1992, on the A64 near Tadcaster.

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

He said he did not yet know the details, for example the date and venue, but he was set to meet the North Yorkshire force's padre next week to discuss the arrangements.

"I would like it to be in Tadcaster," he said, adding that Glenn's wife, Fiona, and son, Tom, were also pleased to hear a service was planned and intended coming down from Scotland to attend it.

Special Constable Goodman was shot dead by IRA gunman Paul Magee after following a suspicious car out of Tadcaster town centre on to the A64. His colleague, PC Sandy Kelly, was grievously wounded, but survived.

Magee was subsequently jailed for life at the Old Bailey, but he was freed under the terms of the Northern Ireland Good Friday agreement in 2000 - to the outrage of Mr and Mrs Goodman, who had campaigned tirelessly against his release. He had served only seven years out of a 30-year minimum sentence.

Magee's accomplice, Michael O'Brien, has also been released.

Mr Goodman said he was still angry and bitter at the releases, and did not believe that the freeing of IRA prisoners had brought about peace. "There is no real peace," he said. He had nothing but scorn for the politicians involved in the Good Friday agreement, especially former Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam.

He said Glenn's son, Tom, who was only a baby when his father was killed and will be 11 in July, still thought of his father a great deal, and also knew quite a lot now about the circumstances surrounding his death.

Sandy Kelly told the Evening Press he intended attending the memorial service, at which he looked forward to meeting Glenn's relatives, including his son, Tom.

He also hoped to lay a wreath in Glenn's memory. "I am very pleased that North Yorkshire police have chosen to remember Glenn in this way," he said.

Updated: 10:40 Monday, May 06, 2002