Bob Lambert , former police spy, has resigned from his posts as lecturer on counter-terrorism at the University of St Andrews and London Metropolitan University.

A timely Xmas present for all of us who have been targetted by

undercover police for campaigning to change the world for the better, or

for justice for our murdered relatives... Bob Lambert resigns as University lecturer over spying controversy.

Former undercover police infiltrator and spymaster Bob Lambert has

stepped down from his posts at both London Metropolitan University and

St Andrews University. His resignation comes in the wake of growing

calls for him to be sacked over the controversy surrounding his

involvement in undercover police operations in the 1980s.

It has been announced that Bob Lambert resigned from his position as a

lecturer as London Metropolitan University earlier this month. Today it

was also announced that he will also leave his post at St Andrews.

In a statement from St Andrews University it was announced that Dr

Lambert’s resignation will take effect from the end of the current term.

Exposed as a high ranking undercover police officer in 2011, Dr Lambert

has been accused of using his position to pursue sexual relationships

with women who were also his targets.

As a member of the Metropolitan Police's Special Demonstration Squad,

Lambert posed as an animal rights activist from 1983 to 1988. As part of

this operation, he fathered a son with an unsuspecting woman before

abandoning them both. The woman in question, who has referred to the

experience as “state rape” subsequently received £400,000 in

compensation from the Metropolitan Police.

Lambert also entered into in at least another three relationships with

women in order to lend “credence” to his undercover persona. His

involvement in many of the Animal Liberation Front’s activities,

including setting fire to a Debenhams, went beyond information

gathering, to the point where he was acting as an agent provocateur. He

later rose to head the Special Demonstration Squad, where he supervised

the infiltration of numerous other undercover police into campaigning,

political and environmental groups. Most notoriously, officers under his

watch were directed to spy on the family of murdered black teenager

Stephen Lawrence and spies were also directed to penetrate the Lawrence

campaign during the inquiry into his murder and into racism in the

police. The role of these spies was to undermine and if possible

discredit the family and campaigners as well as to prepare the Met for

the family's approach to the Inquiry.



Lambert was also in charge of the SDS when trade unionists working in the

construction industry had detailed information on them passed by

undercover police to superiors - information that later came into the

hands of private firms running a blacklist on behalf of large

construction firms. Many of these workers lost their jobs or were

otherwise harassed as a result. Serious questions remain about Lambert

and the SDS's role in the blacklisting scandal - did Lambert or more

senior figures in the Met pass material gathered by police spies to the

blacklisters?

A recipient of an MBE for his services to the police, Lambert has also

faced allegations that he appeared in court under the name of his

undercover identity, Bob Robinson, rather than his real name.

In an interview with Channel 4 in 2013, Lambert admitted that he had

been “cruel” in pursuing relationships with women in activist groups

that he was targeting.

Lambert's resignation is a vindication for all campaigners - who have

called for Lambert to be sacked from his position, since 2011, when he

was exposed as a former SDS operative and superviser. But his

resignation comes as a judicial inquiry into undercover policing is

about to begin, where we are working hard for a wealth of further

information about undercover policing to be revealed to the targets:

- the families of murder victims, people who have died and been killed

in custody, and sufferers of racist attacks who were spied on by the

cops, instead of achieving any justice;

- the many women sexually exploited by the undercover police,

deliberately condoned by the SDS and senior policemen;

- the numberless community campaigns, political groupings, animal

rights, environmental groups and anti-war organisations, the list is

almost endless...

Both Universities had consistently resisted calls to sack him and stated

that his teaching was highly valued by his students. However the large

number of dark points in his past raise serious questions about whether

he should EVER have been employed in a position of trust.

While his resignation might spell the end of his academic career in

London Met and St Andrews, IT DOES NOT SPELL THE END OF OUR INTEREST IN BOB LAMBERT. Many questions remain about his work over 30 years in Special Branch. Some of it may be forced into the light by the Inquiry;

but Lambert's work in the dark underbelly of repressive policing may

never be fully revealed. Islington Against Police Spies will continue

to play a part in uncovering this master manipulator's torrid history.

BUT FOR NOW - let's drink a toast: Well done to all the campaigners,

students and staff at both St Andrews and London Metropolitan

universities, local community activists and others who pushed for

Lambert to be held to account! This is just the beginning...

Source; https://islingtonagainstpolicespies.wordpress.com/