The
Shepherd's Bush Murders, also known as the
Massacre of Braybrook Street, was the
murder of three
police officers in
London by
Harry Roberts and two others in 1966.
The officers had stopped to question the three occupants of a car waiting near
Wormwood Scrubs prison; Roberts shot dead
Temporary Detective Constable David Wombwell and
Detective Sergeant Christopher Head, and John Duddy, another occupant in the vehicle, shot dead
Police Constable Geoffrey Fox.
The three suspects went on the run, initiating a large-scale
manhunt. All three were eventually arrested and later sentenced to
life imprisonment. Public sympathy for the families of the victims resulted in the establishment of the
Police Dependants' Trust to assist the welfare of families of British police officers who have died in the line of duty.
Murders
On 12 August 1966, a
Metropolitan Police crew of an unmarked
Triumph 2000 Q-car, call sign Foxtrot One One, was patrolling
East Acton (although the incident was always reported by the media as occurring in
Shepherd's Bush) in west London.
Detective Sergeant Christopher Tippett Head, aged 30, and 25-year-old
Temporary Detective Constable David Bertram Wombwell were both members of the
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) based at Shepherd's Bush police station in
F Division. Their driver was
Police Constable Geoffrey Roger Fox, aged 41, a beat constable who had served for many years in
F Division (which covered the
Metropolitan Borough of......
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