THE mother of Yvonne Fletcher, the police constable shot dead outside the Libyan Embassy in 1984, has been given fresh hope that Colonel Gaddafi's recent overtures to the West will bring new progress in the hunt for her daughter's killer.

Queenie Fletcher (70), who lives in Semley, is calling on the Libyan leader to "come clean" and bring the shooter to justice.

Twenty years after her daughter died, along with ten others, in a hail of bullets from a Libyan embassy window, Mrs Fletcher and her family still have no idea whether the culprit is alive or dead.

But in 1999, Libya accepted 'general responsibility' for Yvonne's death and Mrs Fletcher believes that, if anyone knows what really happened, Gaddafi does.

Now, in the light of the recent thaw in relations between Libya and the West, Scotland Yard detectives have agreed to carry Mrs Fletcher's plea to the ears of the dictator.

They have been given no indication of when, if at all, they can expect an answer from Libya.