UK- PC Yvonne Fletcher, 25, gunned down by shots fired from inside Libyan Embassy, London, 17/4/84, *Ex-colleague launches private action on suspect*

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April 2024 By Dominic Casciani,

Yvonne Fletcher murder: Libyan suspect faces private prosecution

A police officer who held the hand of his dying colleague has launched a rare private prosecution.

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''A police officer who held the hand of his dying colleague after she was shot 40 years ago is launching a private prosecution of one of the suspects.
PC Yvonne Fletcher was killed when gunmen in London's then Libyan embassy fired into a demonstration outside.
Her colleague, John Murray, is going to court to demand the remaining key suspect is tried for murder. He said he promised her he would "get justice".
The case is being launched on the 40th anniversary of PC Fletcher's death.
The first court hearing is expected in the coming weeks.
PC Fletcher, 25, was gunned down while she and other officers controlled crowds protesting against the Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
"She's sorely missed," Mr Murray told BBC Breakfast. The former officer was with her when she was killed, and "cradled her as she lay down".
All the shots were fired from inside the embassy, also known as the Libyan People's Bureau. After a 10-day siege, Margaret Thatcher's government allowed all the Libyans to leave because they were protected by diplomatic immunity - and to this day nobody has been charged in relation to PC Fletcher's death.''

 

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Apr 17, 2024 #uknews #crime #police
More than a thousand people are expected to head to a London square to celebrate the life of a police officer murdered there exactly 40 years ago.PC Yvonne Fletcher, 25, was shot dead by a bullet fired from inside the Libyan embassy while she was policing a demonstration outside the building.

VIDEO

Moment PC Yvonne Fletcher is shot in 1984 – police video

Footage released by Scotland Yard shows the moment PC Yvonne Fletcher was shot outside the Libyan embassy in London on 17 April 1984

www.theguardian.com

'Footage released by Scotland Yard shows the moment PC Yvonne Fletcher was shot outside the Libyan embassy in London on 17 April 1984. A Libyan man in his 50s was arrested by police on Thursday in south-east England on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and money laundering. Fletcher was shot from inside the embassy as gunfire opened on anti-Gaddafi demonstrators

• Warning: some viewers may find footage distressing'

 

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How suspect in killing of Yvonne Fletcher has never faced prosecution

On the 40th anniversary of the 25-year-old's murder in 1984, her former colleague John Murray is still fighting for justice.

news.sky.com

''As PC Yvonne Fletcher lay dying in his arms, her colleague and close friend John Murray made a promise to find those responsible.
On the 40th anniversary of her death, the retired police officer is still fighting for justice''.
2015
Former Gaddafi aid Saleh Ibrahim Mabrouk - a senior member of the pro-Gaddafi Libyan Revolutionary Committee that ran the embassy at the time of the shooting - returned to the UK to claim asylum in London.
He was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and denied any involvement.
2017
The Crown Prosecution Service did not bring charges because key evidence had been kept secret to protect national security.''

Image:Mr Murray at the High Court. Pic: PA
2021
''A High Court judge found Mr Mabrouk jointly liable for PC Fletcher's shooting with the unknown gunmen - on the balance of probabilities, rather than the criminal test of beyond reasonable doubt - after Mr Murray brought a civil claim for assault and battery for a nominal amount of £1.

Mr Justice Martin Spencer said although Mr Mabrouk had not fired the shots - and had been arrested earlier and was in police custody at the time - he was "a prime mover" in the plan to shoot demonstrators and any police officer who got in the way.''

 

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How suspect in killing of Yvonne Fletcher has never faced prosecution

On the 40th anniversary of the 25-year-old's murder in 1984, her former colleague John Murray is still fighting for justice.

news.sky.com

''As PC Yvonne Fletcher lay dying in his arms, her colleague and close friend John Murray made a promise to find those responsible.
On the 40th anniversary of her death, the retired police officer is still fighting for justice''.
2015
Former Gaddafi aid Saleh Ibrahim Mabrouk - a senior member of the pro-Gaddafi Libyan Revolutionary Committee that ran the embassy at the time of the shooting - returned to the UK to claim asylum in London.
He was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and denied any involvement.
2017
The Crown Prosecution Service did not bring charges because key evidence had been kept secret to protect national security.''

Image:Mr Murray at the High Court. Pic: PA
2021
''A High Court judge found Mr Mabrouk jointly liable for PC Fletcher's shooting with the unknown gunmen - on the balance of probabilities, rather than the criminal test of beyond reasonable doubt - after Mr Murray brought a civil claim for assault and battery for a nominal amount of £1.

Mr Justice Martin Spencer said although Mr Mabrouk had not fired the shots - and had been arrested earlier and was in police custody at the time - he was "a prime mover" in the plan to shoot demonstrators and any police officer who got in the way.''

Scarily I'm old enough to remember this very clearly. I shall watch the private prosecution with considerable interest!

 

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Nov 10, 2021

Cops release video of moment Pc Yvonne Fletcher is shot dead

The suspect, of Libyan nationality in his 50s, was held over Pc Fletcher's fatal shooting outside the Libyan embassy in 1984

www.mirror.co.uk

"The is quickly surrounded by stunned colleagues, including one who throws his police helmet to the ground as he attempts to tend to her.

An inquest ruled Pc Fletcher had been killed by a sub-machine gun fired from the first floor of the embassy. Ten others were hit.
Her death led to an 11-day siege of the building and the severing of diplomatic links.

"This is the first significant arrest in this investigation", said Richard Walton, head of the Met's counter-terrorism command.''