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The Guardian - UK
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Rob Evans

BIZARRE: Undercover officer denies role in arson attack on debenhams in 1987 | Mind Blowing Facts

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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