British police arrest man in 1984 killing of policewoman
Source: AP
By GREGORY KATZ
LONDON (AP) — British police on Thursday announced "the first significant arrest" in the 1984 killing of London policewoman Yvonne Fletcher, shot dead from inside the Libyan embassy in an incident that solidified Libya's reputation as a rogue state.
Commander Richard Walton, head of Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism unit, said a Libyan man in his 50s was arrested Thursday morning on suspicion of conspiracy to murder. A man and a woman, also Libyans, were arrested on the lesser charge of money-laundering in relation to the Fletcher case.
"Over the past 31 years we have never lost our resolve to solve this case, to bring to justice those who conspired to commit this act of murder," Walton said.
Fletcher was killed and 10 others injured on April 17, 1984, when someone opened fire with a submachine gun from inside the Libyan People's Bureau on St. James' Square in central London. Fletcher was policing a demonstration outside the embassy when she was killed.
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Previously unreleased undated picture of Yvonne Fletcher, the police officer who was shot dead while on duty, policing a demonstration outside the Libyan Embassy in London in 1984. British police announced Thursday Nov. 19, 2015, that they have arrested a Libyan man in his 50s, on suspicion of conspiracy to murder in the 1984 killing of London policewoman Yvonne Fletcher. (Metropolitan Police/PA via AP)
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