DECADES AFTER PC WAS SHOT DEAD IN PROTESTS AGAINST LIBYAN
22 Sunday Mail
John Murray was just 16 when he travelled from his home in Aberdeen to London don to enrol as a Metropolitan tan Police cadet in 1972.
He immediately became ame friends with another Scots cots 16-year-old, Allan Dorans, from Ayr, living in the dorm att the cadet col lege in Hendon, don, socialising and playing foror the same hockey team together. er
Murray, 64, was the last person to speak to Yvonne, cradling her as she lay dying on the pavement outside the Libyan Embassy in London in April 1984, while monitor ing a powderkeg demonstration against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
She had been shot by a mystery gunman, believed to be actingg on orders. Murray’s pledgege in that moment to win justice foror her was the start of a quest to which he has stayed faithful.
After his career in the Met, Dorans entered politicsitics and is now the elected MPP for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock. k.
Now the pair have teamedeamed up decades later to press foror justice.
Dorans has an agreeded date to speak to Boris Johnson later this month, where he will push the PM to urge prosecutorsutors to re- examine the criminalnal case against Saleh Ibrahim a him Mabrouk, the main suspect pect in the case.
No one has been n prosecuted for Yvonne’s s death but Murray will
“Boris Johnson could well exert the kind of pressure that could see the CPS reopen the case, particularly if my own civil case against Mabrouk is successful, as I expect it to be.
“Given his background as a detective, Allan is very well placed to involve himself in such legal matters. He also remembers the day Yvonne was killed as it was a poignant time for any officer.”
Murray has spent 36 years and £ 90,000 of his own money investigating those he believes were responsible for the shooting.
His bill has been swollen by several expensive trips to Libya, where he has forged alliances with key contacts. He has also forced