High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Harry Maurice Roberts (born 1936) is a career criminal who instigated the Shepherd`s Bush Murders in which three police officers were shot dead in 1966. The killings happened after the plain-clothed officers approached the van which Roberts and two other men were sitting in, 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. He shot dead two of the officers, while one of his accomplices fatally shot the third. Having exceeded by far his minimum term of 30 years imprisonment, Roberts remains one of the United Kingdom`s longest-serving prisoners.