Noel Joseph Lane

Died

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17 December 1983

Age

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28

Rank

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Sergeant

Force

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Metropolitan Police

Cause

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Homicide - Bomb

Duty Status

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On Duty

Roll of Honour Citation

Killed instantly when a terrorist car bomb exploded outside Harrods store in Knightsbridge, London.

Sergeant Lane was killed instantly, alongside WPC Jane Phillipa Arbuthnot, as they and another officer, Inspector Stephen John Dodd, who died a week later, were investigating a reported terrorist car bomb and evacuating the area outside Harrods store in Knightsbridge, when the device exploded.

Three members of the public were also killed.