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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rob Evans

Undercover officer denies role in arson attack on Debenhams in 1987

Bob Lambert at the inquiry
Bob Lambert also denied submitting distorted intelligence reports to his supervisors to conceal his role in the arson plot. Photograph: UCPI Evidence Hearings

An undercover police officer has denied that he set fire to a high street department store while masquerading as an animal rights campaigner, a public inquiry has heard.

Six witnesses have told the undercover policing inquiry that Bob Lambert, a police spy, was involved in an arson attack on a Debenhams that caused damage costing £340,000.

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