From : "PC Gary Toms and a colleague were in a marked police car in Ashlin Road, Stratford when they began to follow a car that had been reported as being used in a burglary in which a firearm was seen. The driver of the car rammed a number of police vehicles in an attempt to evade capture. It was whilst trying to stop the suspect's car that PC Toms sustained a fatal head injury from which he died six days later in hospital."
To us it seems unlikely that the chase started in Ashlin Road, since the memorial states that Toms fell in Ashlin Road. The describe the chase in more detail, and more believably.
Our colleague, Andrew Behan, adds that Gary Andrew Toms was born on 21 February 1972, the son of Michael Frank Toms (1939-2007) and Teresa Toms née Davies (b.1949). His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1972 in the Thanet Registration District, Kent.
He was married to his wife, Clair and died, aged 39 years, on 17 April 2009 in the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel Road, London, E1 1FR.
From the it was confirmed that he was born on 21 February 1972.
He is shown as "P.C. GARY TOMS" on the Police Memorial Trust's memorial stone in Ashlin Road, London, E15.
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