James Morrison QGM

Died

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13 December 1991

Age

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26

Rank

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Detective Constable

Force

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Metropolitan Police

Cause

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Homicide - Stabbed

Duty Status

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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.

Declared dead on arrival at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, after being fatally wounded when he was stabbed three times as he attempted to arrest a handbag thief.

 

Late at night, while off duty, 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 officer was stabbed.

 

Posthumously awarded the Queen’s Gallantry Medal.