Honour normally reserved for heads of state and bestowed on Margaret Thatcher given to officer killed in terrorist attackThe body of the police officer killed in the London terrorist attack will lie in a chapel in the Palace of Westminster before his funeral on Monday. PC Keith Palmer, 48, was stabbed to death by Khalid Masood last month as he carried out his duties on the cobbled forecourt outside parliament. The Queen has given permission for the officer’s coffin to rest in Westminster’s Chapel of St Mary Undercroft. Palmer’s body will be brought to the chapel at 2pm on Sunday, with a special escort from the Metropolitan police, where it will be given a guard of honour. He was shot dead outside the Palace of Westminster.

Source: The Guardian April 09, 2017 10:35 UTC