The drains in the bank premises were subsequently inspected in case evidence (ammunition) had been flushed down the drains at the Libyan Embassy from where the shots appeared to have been fired. Police re-opened the file into the murder, and in May 2002 officers from Scotland Yard flew to Libya to further the investigation. The first indication that a major development was under way came at 0847 BST (0747 GMT), when a group of neutral observers and two Libyan intermediaries walked into the Square and entered the building. Britain has become the most important center for anti-Gaddafi organisation and agitation in recent years. One bomb, in a Mayfair restaurant frequented by Arabs, injured 27 people.Five “students” from the People’s Bureau in London, believed to have been connected with the explosives, were later expelled from Britain.After the incident, the Foreign Office summoned representatives of the People’s Bureau and demanded assurances that the violence would stop. Four diplomatic bags were loaded on to the vehicle by observers. Finally on Sunday, diplomatic ties were severed, and those inside the embassy were given seven days to leave the country. The Libyan leader, Colonel Gaddafi, countered with a siege of the British embassy in Tripoli. British police were hunting a mass shooter hiding inside. Memorial in St James Square to WPC Yvonne Fletcher who was shot and killed during the Libyan embassy siege in 1984 in London ID: BJN6RR (RM) The former Libyan Embassy in St James's Square from which WPC Yvonne Fletcher was shot on 17th April 1984.
In Brighton, two children of a dissident family became gravely ill after eating poisoned food.
In Tripoli, Gaddafi loyalists besieged the British Embassy. They were trying to keep the situation calm so that it could be resolved peacefully.They regarded the expression of regret by Libya as evidence that Tripoli, too, wanted to defuse the situation.But the Libyan people were being told that Constable Fletcher died in the course of an heroic defence of the People’s Bureau by its staff in the face of an attack by British police and agents of several nations, a distortion which observers though might inflame anti-British feeling in Libya.In the past, frenzied mobs have often taken to the streets to burn down buildings in such circumstances and the Gaddafi regime has always defended such action as a legitimate expression of the public will.As Mr. Brittan and a team of ministerial, police and defence advisers grappled with Britain’s dilemma in a Whitehall command post codenamed “Cobra”, the British media were exploring answers to three questions:This is the course of action favored by the former Foreign Secretary, Dr. David Owen, now leader of the Social Democrats, and by Mr. Roy Hattersley, deputy leader of the Labor Party.
Nobody has yet been charged with the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher. President Reagan has called him “public enemy number one.”Britain has put up with Colonel Gaddafi’s insults and eccentricities for the sake of the $500 million-a-year trading income it gains in direct exports and the indirect benefits of having so many well-paid Britons working in Libya.
In groups of five, led by the Libyan intermediary who has talked to them throughout the 11-day siege, the 30 diplomats made their way out of the embassy in single file. There was no information on charges which might be brought against them, or whether they had come from the People’s Bureau in London.Of the 10 wounded survivors from yesterday’s shooting, nine were described as “stable” in Westminster Hospital. The change in title of the former embassy marked the 10th anniversary of Colonel Gaddafi’s coming to power in power in Libya.In February, a faction calling itself the Libyan Revolutionary Student’s Group, took control. They say the risk to potential British hostages is too great for the Government to insist on the killer standing trial in Britain.If the Government and British public opinion will not accept such pragmatism, what can Britain do in the face of Libyan Intransigence?
In Brighton, two children of a dissident family became gravely ill after eating poisoned food.
In Tripoli, Gaddafi loyalists besieged the British Embassy. They were trying to keep the situation calm so that it could be resolved peacefully.They regarded the expression of regret by Libya as evidence that Tripoli, too, wanted to defuse the situation.But the Libyan people were being told that Constable Fletcher died in the course of an heroic defence of the People’s Bureau by its staff in the face of an attack by British police and agents of several nations, a distortion which observers though might inflame anti-British feeling in Libya.In the past, frenzied mobs have often taken to the streets to burn down buildings in such circumstances and the Gaddafi regime has always defended such action as a legitimate expression of the public will.As Mr. Brittan and a team of ministerial, police and defence advisers grappled with Britain’s dilemma in a Whitehall command post codenamed “Cobra”, the British media were exploring answers to three questions:This is the course of action favored by the former Foreign Secretary, Dr. David Owen, now leader of the Social Democrats, and by Mr. Roy Hattersley, deputy leader of the Labor Party.
Nobody has yet been charged with the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher. President Reagan has called him “public enemy number one.”Britain has put up with Colonel Gaddafi’s insults and eccentricities for the sake of the $500 million-a-year trading income it gains in direct exports and the indirect benefits of having so many well-paid Britons working in Libya.
In groups of five, led by the Libyan intermediary who has talked to them throughout the 11-day siege, the 30 diplomats made their way out of the embassy in single file. There was no information on charges which might be brought against them, or whether they had come from the People’s Bureau in London.Of the 10 wounded survivors from yesterday’s shooting, nine were described as “stable” in Westminster Hospital. The change in title of the former embassy marked the 10th anniversary of Colonel Gaddafi’s coming to power in power in Libya.In February, a faction calling itself the Libyan Revolutionary Student’s Group, took control. They say the risk to potential British hostages is too great for the Government to insist on the killer standing trial in Britain.If the Government and British public opinion will not accept such pragmatism, what can Britain do in the face of Libyan Intransigence?