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His daughter Agatha said "Although I am devastated I know that I am the luckiest daughter to have had you by my side, guiding me through life. Dave proceeded to rise through the ranks from police constable to detective sergeant and then detective inspector in CID until his retirement." Paying tribute, his wife said "All who knew David will remember him as a dedicated and loyal police officer who followed his father, Brian and his older brother, Michael, into the police. They are there to help young people who are out on a Friday night but they have also helped older people." Saying "We’re hoping the street pastors will help us to continue to reduce crime, in particular anti-social behaviour. She was immensely clever, very funny and good humoured to a fault."ĭavid Groombridge died in his Pendle home at the age of 56 in April.Ī detective who had worked at Burnley CID, in 2008 he had helped set up the volunteer Pendle Street Pastors, Her former editor at the Hereford Journal, Mary Queally said: "Cath's local knowledge was valued and invaluable. She wasn’t really interested in going to a national newspaper or getting into television or radio. They did the level best they could for Catherine. They put themselves in a hazardous situation every day. “The girls from the ICU were brilliant with her. "I spoke to her on the phone and she didn’t complain, even though she must have been struggling.
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But then her oxygen levels kept dropping. “It came as a big shock because she was improving, and at one stage she was close to being sent home. Told the Hereford Times: “The doctors said if she hadn’t had lupus she could well have survived. She died aged 48 on 3 May at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital after testing positive coronavirus. Catherine Griffiths was a sub-editor for the Shropshire Star and its weekly sister paper including the Hereford Journal.