History: The day Yvonne Fletcher was murdered

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History: The day Yvonne Fletcher was murdered

On Monday the 23rd of June, a House of Commons adjournment debate saw Bob Stewart MP, make an impassioned appeal for PC Yvonne Fletcher to be awarded a posthumous George Medal. Chris Hobbs, now retired, has vivid memories of a dark day for UK policing.

Photo: courtesy of the Daily Mail

Date - 26th February 2021
By - Chris Hobbs

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Every police officer who has served for any length of time, will experience days which will be embedded on his or her memory forever. Probably every officer who was in a UK police on the 17th of April 1984, will remember where they were and what...

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