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Memorial service remembers Tunisian shooting victim Trudy Jones from Blackwood

News | | Published: 15:38, Tuesday April 12th, 2016.
Last updated: 16:07, Tuesday April 12th, 2016

Trudy Jones, of Blackwood, is among the victims of the Tunisian beach shooting
TRAGIC: Trudy Jones from Blackwood was killed in Tunisia

Blackwood mother Trudy Jones was remembered at a special memorial service held in honour of the victims of the Tunisian terror attacks.

Care home worker Ms Jones, 51, was killed on June 26 last year when gunman Seifiddine Rezgui opened fire on a beach in the resort of Sousse, killing 38 people.

Ms Jones was among 30 Britons who were killed during the attack.

The victims were all remembered at a special memorial service held at Westminster Abbey on Tuesday, April 12.

Described by her family as “a caring person who put everyone else before herself”. The mother-of-four and grandmother had been holidaying with friends and had been due to return home a few days after the attack.

The memorial was held in remembrance of the 30 Britons killed in June and a UK tourist killed in a separate attack at a museum in Tunis in March.

Prince Harry joined relatives of the victims and read from the Bible at the service in London.

He laid a wreath at the Innocent Victims Memorial – a circular stone and slate memorial unveiled by the Queen in 1998.

The service was conducted by the Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend Dr John Hall, and attended by Prime Minister David Cameron.

The Very Reverend Dr Hall said: “We remember with thanksgiving those whose lives were brutally cut short.

“We honour the courage of those who survived and the families of those who suffered.

“We share our grief with victims of attacks from other countries and their families.”

Thirty-one candles were lit and placed on the altar in memory of the victims by their family and friends.

The names of the victims were read out by BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner, who was shot during a terrorist attack in 2004.

The memorial closed with the singing of the Lord’s Prayer and the National Anthem.

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