What the records say
- When
- 17 Apr 1984
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 51.51° N, 0.13° W
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Murder of Yvonne Fletcher.
Summary
Metropolitan Police officer Yvonne Fletcher was fatally shot, during a demonstration outside the Libyan embassy in London, leading to an eleven-day siege of the embassy, and the severing of diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and Libya.
Murder of Yvonne Fletcher
1984 shooting of a British police officer
The murder of Yvonne Fletcher, a Metropolitan Police officer, occurred on 17 April 1984, when she was fatally wounded by a shot fired from the Libyan embassy on St James's Square, London, by an unknown gunman. Fletcher had been deployed to monitor a demonstration against the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and died shortly afterwards.
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