Harry Maurice Roberts ( born 21 July 1936 ) is an English career criminal who in 1966 instigated the Shepherd 's Bush murders , in which three police officers were shot dead . The killings happened after plain-clothes officers approached a Standard Vanguard estate car , in which Roberts and two other men were sitting in Braybrook Street near Wormwood Scrubs prison in London . Roberts feared the officers would discover firearms his gang were planning to use in a robbery . He killed two , while one of his accomplices fatally shot the third
Shepherd 's Bush murders
Shepherd's Bush murders
Harry Roberts (criminal)