James Morrison QGM

Died

13 December 1991

Age

Rank

Detective Constable

Force

Metropolitan Police

Cause

Homicide - Stabbed

Duty Status

Off Duty

Roll of Honour Citation

Fatally wounded when he was stabbed three times as he attempted to arrest a handbag thief. Posthumously awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal.

Roll of Honour Citation

Fatally wounded when he was stabbed three times as he attempted to arrest a handbag thief. Posthumously awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal.

Circumstances

Whilst off duty late at night on 13 December, despite being threatened with a knife, he chased a handbag thief at Covent Garden and, when attempting to arrest him, was stabbed in the heart and fatally wounded outside of the Indian Consulate. Posthumously awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal.

While off duty, late at night, walking through Covent Garden to meet his wife, DC Morrison spotted a thief with items stolen from a nearby public house. Despite being threatened with a knife, he chased the thief and cornered him outside the High Commission of India, in Aldwych, where the thief stabbed James three times.

He was taken to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital but was declared dead on arrival.

Posthumously awarded the Queen’s Gallantry Medal.