Saleh Ibrahim Mabrouk
 Saleh Ibrahim Mabrouk  | |
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 Suspected of murdering WPC Yvonne Fletcher | |
Saleh Ibrahim Mabrouk was expelled from Britain seven days after WPC Yvonne Fletcher’s murder on 17 April 1984, but was allowed to return to visit the UK in 2000, a year after Britain restored diplomatic relations with Libya.
Saleh Ibrahim Mabrouk subsequently fled to Britain and claimed political asylum following the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. Mabrouk was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder in 2015 and held on police bail. Two years later, it was announced for reasons of "national security" that the murder suspect, Mabrouk, would not be taken to court. Senior policing sources told The Telegraph that the case against Mabrouk was dropped after a decision taken at the “highest level”. The source added: “Number 10 was involved.”[1]
Concern over asylum
Former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson accused the Home Office of a ‘puzzling’ breach of its own rules in granting asylum to Saleh Ibrahim Mabrouk wanted over the murder of Yvonne Fletcher. Sir Paul said it was of huge “concern” that Mabrouk was allowed to stay in the UK, despite being the prime suspect for WPC Fletcher’s slaying. Mabrouk is understood to have been granted asylum in 2012 at a time when Theresa May was Home Secretary and five years after a review of the case named him as one of the conspirators in her murder. Sir Paul, who was Met Commissioner from 2009 to 2011, said:
- “It doesn’t feel right that we gave this man asylum. It is puzzling and concerning. If it is the case he was granted asylum then based on the rules as I understand them it is very puzzling. It adds to the argument that a full explanation is required for why the case was dropped.”
British agent
John Murray, a police officer who held WPC Fletcher as she lay dying after being shot outside the Libyan embassy in 1984, said the decision to give Mabrouk asylum was “scandalous”. Murray said it added to his conviction that Mabrouk had been an agent for the British intelligence services at a time when the UK Government was attempting to bring Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime back into the fold after years as a terrorist pariah state:
- “If he is a liaison between Libya and MI6 that would explain why he has got asylum."[2]
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