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The horse-drawn carriage carrying the body of Miriam Baldock, makes its way past Kentish Town fire station on Friday |
Firefighters’ tribute to stab victim
Station caterer is mourned as shocked officers turn out to pay their respects at her funeral
FIREFIGHTERS joined three generations of friends and family to mourn a woman whose life dedicated to those in need was cut short by a knife attack.
Green Watch stood outside Kentish Town Fire Station on Friday to pay their respects as a 20-car cortege passed by on the way to the funeral of Miriam Baldock, 61, who was killed at her Maiden Lane home on August 11.
Family and friends from across Kentish Town and Camden Town had gathered in Bayham Street to form a procession led by a horse-drawn carriage escorting her body to Golders Green for the noon ceremony.
Her husband, Maurice Baldock, 60, still recovering from the four stab wounds he received in the brutal early-hours attack, led the mourners, who included her children Stephen and Stephanie Barrow and her grandchildren.
Her son Stephen said: “We’re lost for words at the number of people who have come today to show their respects. It shows how she was thought of by so many people she lived with and worked with.”
Station manager Dave Cumber, commanding the parade at the fire station where Mrs Baldock had worked as a caterer for 20 years, said veterans had travelled across London to join the duty watch in paying respects to Mrs Baldock.
He said: “We were all deeply shocked by the tragic way in which she died.
“She was greatly respected at the station and will be greatly missed by both her family and us.”
Many mourners at the ceremony and at the wake in the Newmarket, Agar Grove, were at a loss to understand how the life of Mrs Baldock, who was widely known for her generosity to those in need of shelter, had been so savagely cut short when she had only recently won a battle against her third bout of cancer.
n Stuart Forsyth, 40, of no fixed abode, has been charged with the murder and attempted murder of Mr and Mrs Baldock, and will appear at the Old Bailey in November.
He was arrested after handing himself in to a police officer outside a police station in Bodmin, Cornwall, two days after the attack. |
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