The Daily Telegraph reports today, that Al-Baghdadi - one of the reported Embassy co-conspirators of the murder of Yvonne Fletcher, has been found shot dead. Nevertheless, the whereabouts of Mr Matouk Mohammed Matouk - thought to have also played a major role behind the 1984 events at the Libyan Embassy in St James Square, (subsequently becoming Gadaffi's Education Minister) are known to the Libyan Transitional Council (NTC).
Thus far, some elements of the NTC are resisting moves to extradite Mr Matouk - and his accomplices - to the UK. I argue in the Telegraph that it is vital our Government bring every possible pressure to bear on the NTC to ensure that those behind the 1984 Embassy siege and murder of PC Fletcher - are brought to England to face the justice of the courts. We must learn the lessons from the sickening release of al-Megrahi, and make clear to Libya - and to the rest of the world - that those who kill British Citizens will be hunted down to the end of their days.
My statement to The Telegraph is below:
"The Government has an absolute duty to continue the pressure to bring the murderer of Yvonne Fletcher, or their accomplices, to Britain. We must learn the lesson of al-Megrahi and ensure that those who murdered British citizens are brought to justice here, and not only brought to justice here but stay here for their punishment."
WPC Fletcher was killed by someone firing a 9mm calibre automatic weapon from a lower floor in the Libyan embassy?
ReplyDeleteThis verdict has been disputed by a number of experts, including the British Army's senior ballistics officer Lieutenant Colonel George Styles and Home Office pathologist Hugh Thomas.
On 24 June 1997, Tam Dalyell MP questioned Prime Minister Tony Blair about the death of Yvonne Fletcher. Dalyell made particular reference to a Channel 4 documentary about the murder:
"With the agreement of Queenie Fletcher, her mother, I raised with the Home Office the three remarkable programmes that were made by Fulcrum, and their producer, Richard Bellfield, called Murder In St. James's. Television speculation is one thing, but this was rather more than that, because on film was George Styles, the senior ballistics officer in the British Army, who said that, as a ballistics expert, he believed that the WPC could not have been killed from the second floor of the Libyan embassy, as was suggested.
"Also on film was my friend, Hugh Thomas, who talked about the angles at which bullets could enter bodies, and the position of those bodies. Hugh Thomas was, for years, the consultant surgeon of the Royal Victoria hospital in Belfast, and I suspect he knows more about bullets entering bodies than anybody else in Britain. Above that was Professor Bernard Knight, who, on and off, has been the Home Office pathologist for 25 years. When Bernard Knight gives evidence on film that the official explanation could not be, it is time for an investigation."
A major issue is the discrepancy in the bullet trajectory noted by the pathologist who examined the body of Yvonne Fletcher. Dr. Ian West wrote in his initial post mortem report she was shot from the upper floors of an adjacent building because "the angle of wound was between 60 and 70 degrees".
Hope Highgate taught you to question everything.