On 8 July the Foreign Minister, Robin Cook, announced that the Libyan Government accepted ‘general responsibility’ for the death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher and normal diplomatic relations with Libya were being restored. The media reporting of this accepted the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) spin that it meant the Libyans have admitted killing Fletcher. […]
The killing of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in public view and for no apparent reason remains one of the most notorious murders of recent decades. For sixteen years there have been few signs of any serious attempts to locate and bring to justice the perpetrator of this outrage. Finally, this April, in an outstanding piece […]
Brian Crozier HarperCollins, London, 1993 This is a very interesting book which greatly adds to our knowledge of the clandestine shaping of British politics in the 1970s and 80s. It is also a book which, like Chapman Pincher’s Inside Story, will repay repeated re-reading. But amidst all the new material a surprising amount of these […]
[…] to a projected (but unrealised) trip by Joe Pearce to the Libyan embassy for fund-raising in February 1984, he never produced any solid proof.(24) The death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher would have closed off that avenue, and what were unquestionably NF internal documents in Anderson’s hand-writing (reproduced in Searchlight) show that by mid-1984 even […]
[…] needed for reference.'(49) In the public domain, Phil Andrews, speaking at a St George’s Day demonstration in Stoke, is reputed to have said of the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, ‘What’s all this fuss about the police woman who was shot outside the Libyan embassy? We should not shed any tears over the death […]
[…] London, Rome and Vienna; planned the assassination of Gadhafi in the attack on his Tripoli barracks in May 1984; and had a hand in the shooting of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in April 1984 in London. Niggl also sees the Nesar Hindawi case as a Mossad operation designed to disrupt Syria’s relations with Europe. He […]
[…] me I knew enough to be an intelligent listener for him. He told me that he thought that he, while mind-controlled, and not the Libyans, had shot WPC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Embassy. I published this in Lobster. Joe was very unhappy about this and denied telling me what he had said. Since […]
[…] provocateurs on picket lines and as a hit squad when required. He weaves in several fascinating strands from that period, including the murders of Hilda Murrell and WPC Fletcher. More importantly, there is a suggestion of a genesis in British Army-supported paramilitary activity in the north of Ireland in the 1970s. There is also […]
[…] Workers Association. Who they? you ask. That I don’t know. Details at http://www.directa.force9.co.uk Heavy weather An impressive reworking of the evidence that the Libyans did not kill WPC Yvonne Fletcher was published in Squall and is – or was – on their Website at www.squall.co.uk/yes/ind2.html Drug wars and Another view of the Afghani mujahidin […]
[…] who in 1990 bragged of murder threats he had made.(1) Dibley partly justified Century’s terror tactics by referring to a previous covert police operation, Edzell. An undercover WPC tried to seduce confessions from Colin Stagg to the Wimbledon Common murder by confessing on tape to have sadistically enjoyed murdering a young baby by slitting […]
