PC David Rathband To Be First Person On Olympic Wall Of Fame
PC David Rathband who was shot and blinded by Raoul Moat, will be the first person to feature on a roll of honour on an Olympic Torch route.
PC Rathband, originally from Stafford, was found dead at his home in Blyth, Northumberland last week.
A wall of fame displaying photos of community figures is being set up by Stafford Borough Council in May.
Adam Hill, the council’s head of leisure and culture, said PC Rathband’s courage had been inspirational.
PC Rathband was shot twice by Moat in Newcastle in July 2010.
He was found dead on Wednesday night and an inquest later heard he had been found hanged.
Public request
He had set up the Blue Lamp Foundation to raise funds to help injured members of the emergency services.
A borough council spokesman said: “The public have asked for David Rathband to be the first person to be named on the wall of honour.
“Obviously setting up such a good initiative makes him the sort of worthy person we want to see on it.”
The authority has been asking people to nominate community champions and volunteers who they think should be included on the wall of photos.
The Olympic Torch will travel through Gnosall, Haughton and Stafford on 30 May.
A spokesman for the council said the feature would be placed at a secret location in Stafford on the day and would then be moved to a different location in the town.
Same Difference 
This makes me so angry. As if it weren’t bad enough the way the media, politicians and various causes used David Rathband and then cried crocodile tears after hearing news that they’d lost their golden goose, these same people/organisations now wont even let him rest in peace. The media (especially 5 live) were falling over themselves to get some “award-winning” interviews with David but they didn’t bother listening to a single word he was saying. David Rathband wasn’t an “inspiration” or a “role model” or some figura of tragic nobility ripe for use as a corporate mascot. David Rathband was a human being who’d been struck down and left to struggle with little or no support. All these people I hear/read describing him as a “friend” do so purely in terms of how DR aided their particular campaign or political agenda. None of these “friends” addressed any of the frustrations and fears openly expressed by David (re isolation, limited access to information, limited personal freedom, loss of dignity etc). So “wall of fame?” No, more like a “mirror of shame;” showing the world how British society treats its public servants and disabled. Grrrrrrrrrrr……
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