Murder of Yvonne Fletcher Murder of Yvonne Fletcher The murder of Yvonne Fletcher, a Metropolitan Police officer, occurred on 17 April 1984, when she was fatally wounded by a shot fired from the Libyan embassy on St James's Square, London, by an unknown gunman. Fletcher had been deployed to monitor a demonstration against the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and died shortly afterwards. Her death resulted in an eleven-day siege of the embassy, at the end of which those inside were expelled from the country and the United Kingdom severed diplomatic relations with Libya. Between 1980 and 1984 Gaddafi had ordered the deaths of several
Embassy of the United Arab Emirates, London is located between Belgrave Square and Hyde Park corner in south-west London. The old embassy was situated in a mid 19th-century stucco terraced house overlooking Hyde Park in Kensington Road, Westminster, London, next door to the Embassy of Tunisia and the Embassy of Afghanistan. The new embassy is an updated and expanded version of the previous embassy building and is on the cross intersection of two streets. The embassy serves Emirati nationals in the United Kingdom. Embassy of the United Arab Emirates, London The Embassy of the United Arab Emirates at 1-2 Grosvenor Crescent in the Grosvenor Crescent district of