Geoffrey Roger Fox

Died

12 August 1966

Age

Rank

Police Constable

Force

Metropolitan Police

Cause

Homicide - Shot

Duty Status

On Duty

Circumstances

With two CID colleagues he had stopped to question the occupants of a van parked in Braybrook Street near Wormwood Scrubs prison. PC Fox waited in the police car while the Detectives spoke to the occupants of the van. Upon seeing the detectives shot PC Fox attempted to reverse but was fatally shot through the window.

Shot and killed, by the rear-seat passenger of a van parked in Braybrook Street, near Wormwood Scrubs prison, as the officer attempted to drive away after seeing his colleagues, DS Christopher Tippet Head and Temporary DC David Stanley Bertram Wombwell, had been shot while questioning the van’s three occupants.