Roll of Honor
Incident
WPC Yvonne Fletcher was part of a detachment of thirty police officers sent to St James’s Square to monitor a demonstration. They were accompanied by members of the Diplomatic Protection Group.
About seventy-five protestors arrived from across the country, particularly from northern England. The demonstration began around 10:00am. Many of the demonstrators were wearing masks or balaclavas to ensure photographers from the Libyan Embassy could not record their identities. They stayed behind barriers placed opposite the Embassy, chanted anti-Gaddafi slogans and carried banners and placards.
A counter-demonstration by Gaddafi supporters had been arranged by the Embassy and took place outside the building. The demonstrations were filmed by several international television crews invited by the Libyans.
At 10:18am automatic gunfire was discharged from two windows of the Embassy building in the direction of the anti-Gaddafi demonstration. According to the post-mortem examination report, the gunfire wounded eleven protestors, with one round entering WPC Fletcher’s back.
While the demonstrators were moved into Charles II Street, WPC Fletcher was aided by her colleagues. As she lay in the road outside the Embassy, she advised them to “keep calm”. She was moved to Charles II Street where she became unconscious and stopped breathing as colleagues tried to render first aid.
At 10:40am an ambulance took her to Westminster Hospital where, as she was being transferred from the ambulance to a hospital trolley, a single spent round of ammunition fell from her uniform. In hospital she underwent an operation but died at approximately midday.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Woman Police Constable Fletcher served with the Metropolitan Police.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Woman Police Constable Fletcher.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Woman Police Constable Yvonne Joyce Fletcher is one of 17,623 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 54.2% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In ENG, 702 of 2,827 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 24.8% of this state's fallen. That is 29.4 percentage points below the national rate of 54.2%.
At Metropolitan Police, 185 of 729 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 25.4% of this agency's fallen.
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