Gaddafi minister orchestrated shooting of PC Yvonne Fletcher, court told

Saleh Ibrahim Mabrouk accused over death of police officer who was shot outside Libyan embassy in 1984

A former minister in Muammar Gaddafi’s government “orchestrated” the shooting of PC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan embassy in London in 1984, the high court has heard.

Saleh Ibrahim Mabrouk is accused of being jointly liable for the death of 25-year-old Fletcher, who was killed by automatic gunfire aimed at anti-Gaddafi protesters and police outside the embassy in St James’s Square on 17 April 1984.

Told a meeting after he and his peers took over the embassy that they had to teach a lesson to anti-Gaddafi people and spoke of carrying out “bombings and murders”.

Asked a colleague on the morning of the protest to collect another man to show those at the embassy “how to put together and dismantle a gun”.

Told a police officer putting out barriers before the protest: “We have guns here today, there is going to be fighting.”

Instructed protesters at a pro-Gaddafi counterdemonstration where to stand “so they wouldn’t get shot”.

After the shooting, sought to pass on advice to the man who had fired the shots not to comment if questioned by police.

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