British diplomats are hopeful that police investigating the 1984 murder in London of PC Yvonne Fletcher will be able to visit Libya “soon”.
PC Yvonne Fletcher was fatally shot outside the Libyan embassy in 1984
Libyan interior minister Fawzy Abdilal confirmed the National Transitional Council’s commitment to help with the inquiry on a visit to London last week.
A senior British diplomat said Libya had been “very positive” but an exact timescale could not be put on a visit.
PC Fletcher was killed by shots fired from the Libyan embassy at protesters.
Suspects named
The diplomat said: “The investigation is open. The main focus for us is to ensure the police can take forward that investigation.
“That is why we have consistently raised it with the Libyan authorities.
“They have been very positive about this and, whilst we can’t put an exact time on it, we hope that the police will be able to visit Libya soon.”
One suspect, named as Matouk Mohamed Matouk, returned to Libya under the protection of diplomatic immunity in the same month as PC Fletcher was killed.
Two Libyan diplomats suspected to have been involved are reported to have since died.
They include the junior official thought to have fired the fatal shot, named as Abdulmagid Salah Ameri.
‘Commitment there’
Mr Abdilal visited the UK ahead of the first anniversary next week of the start of the uprising that saw the overthrow of Col Muammar Gaddafi.
Mr Abdilal had meetings with figures including Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne and National Security Adviser Sir Kim Darroch.
Subjects raised included the PC Fletcher case, the Lockerbie bombing and Col Gaddafi’s arming of the IRA.
The British diplomat said of the PC Fletcher investigation: “This is an issue which we have raised at pretty much every high-level meeting that we have had.
“He [Mr Abdilal] said he was very happy for his ministry and others to co-operate with us on these issues.
“The commitment is there to work with us. We are more optimistic than we were a year ago.”
Source: BBC
The LIbyan Authorities must come out clean regarding this case without equivocation or excuses. And if the thugs need to be handed over to British authorities, so be it.
Let justice ring for this young woman’s family, once and for all!
Do you think Heisham that the thugs who killed this British police woman years ago outside the Libyan embassy in London are still alive ?
It’s been so long ago.
Libyan Authorties should let Scotland Yard conduct its investigation without further hassles, and impediments. Whatever conclusions inspectors from Scotland Yard make should also be fine with us. At least, we give the Fletcher family closure for the savage and untimely death of their beloved daughter.
And when will they investigate the British Government and the British Oil companies for letting the Lockerbie Bomber go?
The people responsible for that share equally to blame in the crimes of the bomber and thus deserve the maximum penalty by law
In this crime, there are specific suspects.In the end justice will prevail and the cowards will pay for their crime.R.I.P yvonne fletcher,i hope your loved ones have closure.libyan
That’s right why did the British let the murderer go if it was not for the fear of Kadaffi reprisals upon them. Now they are investigating ?
Is a little too late isn’t it.
It was part of an oil deal with Gaddafi but then the Brit elites got ticked off because Gaddafi wouldn’t behave himself properly. The Western elites really just cared about getting rid of Gaddafi because they invited him into their club and he did a wee wee on their shoes or something like that – democracy and freedom were secondary if at all relevant – in fact NATO’s primary game plan was to get one of Gaddafi’s underlings to assassinate him and have that guy be the new dictator.
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AS for Yvonne, no I disagree, it’s never too late and ultimately this is a good thing.