Yvonne Fletcher

Yvonne Fletcher

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The murder of Yvonne Fletcher, a Metropolitan Police officer, occurred on 17 April 1984, when she was fatally wounded by a shot fired from the Libyan embassy on St James's Square, London, by an unknown gunman. Fletcher had been deployed to monitor a demonstration against the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and died shortly afterwards. Her death resulted in an eleven-day siege of the embassy, at the end of which those inside were expelled from the country and the United Kingdom severed diplomatic relations with Libya.

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Yvonne Fletcher was born on 1958 in Wiltshire, United Kingdom. Fletcher's country of citizenship (nationality) was British. They died on Tuesday, 17 April 1984.

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17 April 1984
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