A MEMORIAL and remembrance service will be held next month for the apprentice jockeys killed in a fire in North Yorkshire a year ago.

Jamie Kyne, 18, and Jan Wilson, 19, died when a fire spread through Buckrose Court in Norton, near Malton last September.

The service will take place on September 5 at St Leonard and St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Malton.

Father Tim Bywater of St Leonard and St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, said the lives of both jockeys would be remembered in the ceremony.

“The fifth of September is the first anniversary of the fire, and Jamie’s funeral took place here, therefore prayers will be said for him on that date,” he said.

“But although it was Jamie’s funeral which was held here, Jan was very much a part of that ceremony, in the thoughts and prayers of people in attendance, as they will be this year also.”

In May this year, 37-year-old labourer Peter Brown was found guilty of the jockeys’ manslaughter, after a 19-day trial, but has yet to be sentenced.

The jury at Leeds Crown Court heard he had started the fire because he had been refused entry to a party at their flat.

Hundreds of people from the world of racing, the Ryedale community, and Jamie Kyne’s family and friends turned out for Jamie’s funeral last year, and all are welcome to this year’s service.