A policeman killed while pursuing a stolen car.

 St Menefreda, St Minver, Cornwall
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Menefreda is thought to be the Latinised form of the Celtic Minver. The name change took place when the monks in Bodmin took over the church from the Celtic regime.
 
 
 Police Constable Robert Benjamin Mercer died 26 May 1982, aged 20. He was fatally injured in a police car which crashed while pursuing a stolen car.  
 
Visited - June 2014

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