A FORMER MP has called for all victims of the Bosnian conflict to be remembered in the wake of Ratko Mladic’s arrest – including a Pendle aid worker murdered by bandits.

Father-of-four Paul Goodall, 35, from Earby, was shot in the back of the head in January 1994, while employed as a driver for the Overseas Development Agency.

The execution-style killing took place near the city of Zenica, as Mr Goodall was delivering an aid consign-ment.

Two colleagues fled but were wounded by the gunmen.

Former Pendle MP Gordon Prentice lobbied Parliament extensively in the wake of the shock murder of Mr Goodall, who lived with wife Denise and their four daughters in Mostyn Avenue.

Three members of the gang involved in the ambush of the aid workers’ Land Rover were later killed in a shoot-out with security forces.

A fourth man, Saudi Arabian Abdul Hadi al Gahtani, was arrested but escaped from a police car en-route to a prison in Sarajevo.

Campaigners including the MP feared the ‘disappearance’ was part of a smokescreen to avoid a murder trial which would have embarrassed the-then Bosnian gover-nment.

Mrs Goodall, now of Colne Road, Sough, said: “There were a few things left open after Paul’s death.”

Mr Prentice said he was adamant that others implicated in the war’s worst atrocities, including Mla-dic, should not evade justice.

Mladic is accused of ordering the slaughter of 8,500 Muslim men and boys at Srebrencia in July 1995.

Mr Prentice said: “The memory fades but the enormity of the crime stays constant.

“It was always a long shot that the former Bosnian Serb general would esca-pe extradition by citing various health problems.”

The former MP accepts Mladic may have suffered from a stroke but this did not detract from his understanding of his actions.

He said: “Mladic appears well enough to understand the implications of his extradition from Serbia to the Nether-lands. He will stand trial for war crimes.”

Earby Parish Council created an award in memory of Mr Goodall, a Gulf War veteran, to be presented by West Crav-en Technology College in his honour.

A street in the village was also named after Mr Goodall.