David Stanley Bertram Wombwell

Died

12 August 1966

Age

Rank

Temporary Detective Constable

Force

Metropolitan Police

Cause

Homicide - Shot

Duty Status

On Duty

Roll of Honour Citation

Shot in the head and killed as he and a colleague questioned three men in a van.

Roll of Honour Citation

Shot in the head and killed as he and a colleague questioned three men in a van.

Circumstances

With two colleagues he had stopped to question the occupants of a van parked in Braybrook Street near Wormwood Scrubs prison. DC Wombwell was shot by in the head by the front seat passenger of the van.

Temporary DC Wombwell was shot in the head and killed, by the front-seat passenger of a van parked in Braybrook Street, near Wormwood Scrubs prison, as he and a colleague questioned the three occupants.

DS Christopher Tippet Head was shot and killed, as he ran back to his patrol car after seeing David shot dead, and PC Geoffrey Roger Fox was also shot and killed as as he attempted to drive away after seeing his colleagues killed.