MAIL ONLINE: Ministers were branded ‘corrupt’ this evening for agreeing a secret deal with Libya that will make it impossible to bring the killer of a British policewoman to justice in the UK.
In a new favour for the Gaddafi regime, the Foreign Office agreed to drop their demands to try the murderer of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, who was gunned down outside the Libyan Embassy in London in 1984.
The deal was signed off by Justice Secretary Jack Straw three years ago, when he was Foreign Secretary -- at a time when Britain was negotiating trade and oil deals with the regime in Tripoli.
A year later, Mr Straw also agreed to include the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi in a prisoner transfer agreement with Libya, in a bid to preserve a lucrative oil contract between BP and the regime in Tripoli.
Details of the secret deal sparked claims that the government is letting the Libyans ‘get away with murder’.
Ministers stand accused of misleading the family of WC Fletcher, who have campaigned for 25 years to have her killer handed over for trial in Britain.
Queenie Fletcher, Yvonne’s mother said yesterday she had not been told about a deal. ‘They should have informed us. We were never told they’d agreed to this. No, never.’ Government's secret deal with Gaddafi saved killer of WPC Yvonne Fletcher from UK trial >>> Tim Shipman and Stephen Wright | Sunday, September 13, 2009
