Tags: Criminal.
Harry Maurice Roberts (born 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 the plain-clothes officers approached the van in which Roberts and two other men were sitting in Braybrook Street near Wormwood Scrubs prison in London. Roberts opened fire on the officers when he feared they would discover the firearms his gang were planning to use in an armed robbery.