MOTHER AND DAUGHTER AT ODDS OVER HERO'S MEDALS

She was only four when her hero father was killed in the Battle of Goose Green in the Falklands.

Paratrooper Gary Bingley was shot as he stormed an Argentine machine gun nest in an act of bravery described as ‘instrumental in defeating the enemy’.

Zoe McKay was too young to understand when her mother Jayne proudly showed her his Military Medal after collecting it from the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Now mother and daughter are at war over the sale of the medals, which are due to go under the hammer at London auction house Spink and Son today.

Last night heartbroken Zoe McKay – who is estranged from her mother – made a final plea to keep the medals in the family.

She is desperately trying to raise £70,000 to buy them herself after her mother, now called Jay Hyrons, 60, decided to part with them to fund her battle with ill health. Her daughter said: ‘My dad gave his life and the medals should remain part of his family.

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