Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] in keeping with his James Bond lifestyle – sailed to the UK on the RMS Queen Elizabeth. On arrival he set up the World Psychedelic Centre ( WPC) in Pont Street, Knightsbridge, with a couple of flaky old Etonians, Desmond O’Brien and Joe Mellen. Visitors – in a kind of the-gangs-all-here listing – included […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] for example, his ‘The Murder of Hilda Murrell: Conspiracy Theories Old and New’ in Lobster 28 and ‘Is Libya still the prime suspect in the murder of WPC Fletcher?’ in Lobster 32. We met once, on York station. He didn’t mention his work with Sanderson but there’s a hint about it in the piece […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
[PDF file]: […] reminding us that in the 1980s, when Iran enjoyed US support during its war with Iraq, Libya was clearly targeted by the Reagan Administration. The shooting of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984 encouraged Thatcher to become the only European leader to allow her country to be used two years later for a US attempt […]