Children of murdered police officers seek help to get justice for fathers

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We needed our daddy then and we still need him today, but right now we also need you, so please, please help us to get justice for our dads.” Speaking for his family, Mr Johnston’s son Louie said their heartache at losing a father is now being repeated by his grandchildren who never got to know their grandfather. “Five seconds was all it took to change the course of our family’s history and take our dad away, leaving 25 years of unimaginable pain, loss and longing for our wonderful daddy,” he said. “We ask anyone with information to please come forward and help us once again change the course of our family’s history as we seek justice.” Detective Superintendent Stephen Wright, from the Legacy Investigation Branch, described the gunmen as potentially having fled the scene disguised by wearing wigs in a green coloured Rover 216 car that was later found burnt out in the Kilwilke Estate in the town. “Constables John Graham and David Johnston were brutally murdered 25 years ago by Provisional IRA terrorists at a point where it was understood that these type of heinous murders would be behind us,” he said.