The widow of a policeman made a poignant walk in his memory to raise money for cancer research.

Policeman and father of two Gary Eves, 48, died in January after a 20-month battle with cancer.

Mr Eves' widow Karen, staged the walk over eight days in April, scattering some of his ashes at the end.

She was joined by Mr Eves' colleague Tim Matthews, his sister Suzanne Ashby, and friend George Gittins.

For several years before his death, Mr Eves, from Tonbridge, had been planning a sponsored charity walk with Mr Matthews, who he had known for 14 years, along Hadrian’s Wall.

When Mr Eves’ cancer worsened in November last year, the pair planned the walk while he was being treated at Maidstone Hospital, but he died before they could carry it out.

The event raised a total of £4,000 - half to be donated to Cancer Research and half of which was handed over to staff at Maidstone’s oncology unit on Saturday.

Mr Matthews said: “He was quite a fighter but it got hold very quickly.

“We’d been discussing the walk for many years but a back injury he had put it on the back burner. When he mentioned it to me we both said “let’s go and get this walk done”.

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