Armed robbery foiled with two shot dead
- Title
- Armed robbery foiled with two shot dead
- Genre
- Press conference
- TX Date
- Jul 1987
- Year of production
- 1987
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- Duration
- 00:03:09
- Description
- Scotland Yard’s Assistant Commissioner, Brian Worth, explains to press and fields questions on how armed police from the Regional Crime Squad and Tactical Firearms Unit foiled the armed robbery of an abattoir on Shooters Hill in South London, in which two of the robbers were shot dead. Says the loss of life was regrettable but the police were under threat.
- Contributors
- Brian Worth
- Keywords
- Deaths; London; Police; Firearms; Abattoirs; Robberies; Nicholas Payne; Michael Flynn; Shooters Hill
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