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Morning Cup of Murder

The Unimaginable Damage of Power - April 17 2022

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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April 17th: WPC Yvonne Fletcher Killed (1984) Power can make people do some of the most unimaginable damage. On April 17th 1984 a woman who loved her job, loved her life and was loved in return went to work one day and lost her life to a group of men in power. Men who, as it stands, have not been fully punished for the crime that was committed.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yvonne_Fletcher, https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50334287, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/23/still-time-bringwpc-yvonne-fletchers-killers-justice/, https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-53248918, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/16/yvonne-fletcher-inquiry-dropped-over-national-security-fears, https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/wpc-yvonne-fletcher-george-medal-b920964.html, https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/yvonne-fletcher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There were two more murders.

0:31.8

When police arrives, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:36.1

We have a weird hummus.

0:38.6

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

0:42.3

A cop of murder.

0:44.7

Power can make people do some of the most unimaginable damage.

0:48.6

On April 17, 1985, a woman who loved her job, loved her life, and was loved in return, went to work one day and lost her life to a group of men in power.

0:59.4

Men who, as it stands, have not been fully punished for the crime that was committed.

1:04.7

So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

1:15.1

Music bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder. There are a few pieces to this complicated story that you need to know about to fully understand

1:20.1

the crime that took place. The first piece belongs to Avon Joyce Fletcher, born June 15,

1:25.7

1958, in a village in Wiltshire as the oldest of four daughters born to Michael and Queenie Fletcher.

1:32.4

A girl who, from the age of just three, knew she wanted nothing more than to be a police officer when she grew up.

1:39.2

At the age of 18, the minimum required to apply for the force, Yvonne began putting in applications to a number

1:45.8

of different departments, who all turned her down because, at 5 foot 2.5 inches, she was an inch and a half

1:52.9

shorter than the minimum that was required. Just when she was about to consider a move to Hong Kong

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