Death of Jack Avery

Jack Avery
Metropolitan Police Service
Died 6 July 1940 (aged 28)
Badge number	890A
Place of death	St. Mary's Hospital, London, England
Rank	War Reserve Constable

War Reserve Constable Jack William Avery was a war reserve police officer who was murdered in Hyde Park, London, on 5 July 1940, having served less than one year with the Metropolitan Police Service.

Avery was stabbed in the groin by Frank Stephen Cobbett, after Avery approached him having been advised by a member of the public that Cobbett was acting suspiciously. 42-year-old Cobbett, of no fixed address, was originally sentenced to death for murder, but after an appeal served fifteen years penal servitude for manslaughter instead.^[1]

In 2007 Ian Blair, then Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, unveiled a memorial to Avery close to the place where he was attacked in Hyde Park.^[2]

See also

• List of British police officers killed in the line of duty

References

1. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6605147.stm
2. ^ http://www.polfed.org/p22_23_gone_not_forgotten_0807.pdf

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