THE father of murdered Red Cap Ben Hyde will run the Leeds Half Marathon on Sunday to raise money for his son's memorial trust.

John Hyde, whose 23-year-old son, from Northallerton, North Yorkshire, was killed in Iraq in 2003, is part of a team of nine people taking on the challenge to raise funds for the Lance Corporal Ben Hyde Memorial Trust.

The team will wear blue T-shirts with the Royal Military Police cap badge on the left breast, having secured permission to use the emblem.

The writing says "Remember Iraq 2003" and carry the names of the six Royal Military Police Officers who died at the hands of Iraqi insurgents at a police station in the southern Iraqi town of al Majar al Kabir, on June 24, 2003.

It will also carry the names of the three officers who died in August 2003 after a drive- by shooting in Basra, two of whom were from Catterick, North Yorkshire.

Those who died along with L Cpl Hyde were Cpl Simon Miller, 21, from Washington, L Cpl Thomas Keys, 20, from Wales, Sergeant Simon Hamilton-Jewell, 41, from Surrey, Cpl Paul Graham Long, 24, from South Shields, South Tyneside, and Cpl Russell Aston, 30, from Derbyshire.