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Barry
John Taylor
Police Inspector
West Yorkshire Constabulary
Died 15
February 1970,
aged 30
In
the early hours Inspector Taylor and other officers attended the
scene of a burglar alarm activation at a factory at Pudsey where,
unknown to the police,
a safe-blower armed with explosives and
a sawn-off shotgun had already shot
dead the night-watchman.
On arrival the police surrounded the premises and
the Inspector
climbed over the factory gates and was searching the yard where
he confronted the gunman who shot him at close range, killing him.
His
killer was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment
with a minimum term of 30 years; he died in prison 30 years later.
Barry
joined the former West Riding Constabulary in April 1959, serving
at Harrogate before promotion to Sergeant at Batley in 1965 and
Inspector at Brighouse in 1967, he had only taken up duties at Pudsey
a few weeks earlier.
He was survived by his wife, three year
old son and four month old daughter.
He was posthumously awarded the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct.
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