Age: 39
Sex: male
Date: 31 Oct 1984
Place: Kirkgate, Leeds
John Speed was shot in Kirkgate near Leeds Parish Church on 31 October 1984.
He had been a police sergeant and had been out with another policeman in Kirkgate when the other policeman stopped two men that had been acting suspiciously there. However, one of the men pulled out a gun and shot at them, killing John Speed.
see Leeds Live
see BBC
see Daily Mail
see Yorkshire Post
see The Sun
see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Thursday 06 December 1984
see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Saturday 08 December 1984
see Belfast News-Letter - Saturday 10 November 1984
