Resolution and fall out

After 11 days, the British government allowed 'embassy' staff to leave and expelled them from the UK. Diplomatic relations were immediately broken off. The Libyans detained 6 British nationals for 9 months, releasing them just 4 days after the unveiling of a memorial to WPC Yvonne Fletcher in the Square.

Pan Am flight 103 was brought down over Lockerbie in Scotland by Libyans in 1988. Eventually Tripoli admitted to the WPC's killing, and then denied it. Tensions eventually prompted the aerial bombing of Libya, the execution of the Colonel and some say no good has come out of it all.