Christopher Tippett Head

Christopher Tippett Head

Died

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12 August 1966

Age

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30

Rank

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Detective Sergeant

Force

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Metropolitan Police

Cause

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Homicide - Shot

Duty Status

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On Duty

Shot and killed, by the front-seat passenger of a van parked in Braybrook Street, near Wormwood Scrubs prison, as he ran back to his patrol car after seeing Temporary DC David Stanley Bertram Wombwell shot dead as the two officers questioned the van’s three occupants. PC Geoffrey Roger Fox was also killed in the same incident.