Police officers challenge WPC murder ruling

POLICE officers are mounting an unprecedented legal challenge over the refusal to prosecute the suspect in the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher.

A judicial review has been filed against the Government’s decision to block key evidence from being used in a prosecution over the shooting of the officer outside the Libyan embassy in 1984. John Murray – who was standing next to Ms Fletcher, 25, when she was shot – and the Police Federation lodged the claim in the high Court. Mr Murray said: ‘I have no doubt that we will win.’ In 2015, after reopening the case, Scotland Yard arrested Saleh Ibrahim Mabrouk, a former minister under Colonel Gaddafi, on suspicion of conspiracy to murder. But the case was later dropped for national security reasons. Mabrouk denies any role in the murder.