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Heartbroken rugby players lay club jacket of policeman shot dead in moving tribute

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Members of the rugby club at which Sergeant Matt Ratana was head coach have paid moving tribute to the officer and 'role model', who was shot and killed on Friday.

Multiple tributes were laid outside the East Grinstead Rugby Clubhouse and two periods of silence - for junior and senior club members - were held on Sunday morning.

The Met Police officer, who had been called an "irreplaceable figure" in the community, was shot and killed at his workplace in Croydon, south London, on Friday.

The clubhouse flew their own flag on Sunday morning, alongside the New Zealand flag and the All Blacks rugby team flag to honour Sgt Ratana's roots.

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