Story worthy of a movie script. If someone has not already obtained the rights. This is the story told by the British newspaper of the couple formed by Bob Lambert and Jacqui -without a specific name for security reasons-. But above all, the revelation that she had one day when she came across the true story of her former husband.
‘He had been her husband’ is not a random tense. Its history could be classified as problematic, since it did not get off to a very good start. Or, at least, that’s what Jacqui believed for more than two decades. After having the couple’s son, two years later she vanished.
Lambert didn’t just leave, he had an excuse or alibi. In reality, a lie to hide another even bigger lie. He told him that he had to leave for safety, that he was fleeing from the police. The reality was very different. The one wearing the badge was him. But Jacquie didn’t know it until one day when she opened a copy of the tabloid The Daily Mail and she read the article that left her “absolutely ruined” and told her that “I no longer have a life.”
“I no longer have a life”: who really was Bob Lambert?
Bob Lambert was not in trouble with the law when he fled, he was part of the law. No, he was not one of those kind and gentle bobbies that run through the streets of London. He was an undercover police officer, who carried out tasks homologous to those that an agent from the Information Brigade of the Spanish police would carry out. But hidden in its practices and history are other scandals that have shaken British politics.
Lambert was part of a secret squad of the Scotland Yard police. His objective was to spy on political leaders and activists, something he did between 1984 and 1989 by joining an anarchist network and among animal activists. Yes, during that period of time was when he had sexual relations with Jacquie. Also with three others. Evidently, he did not reveal to any of them what his real job was. Does this story sound familiar to you or do you wonder how something like this can happen in a European country? .
Although Jacquie became pregnant and they were going to share a child, he also did not tell her – or any of the other women he slept with – that he already had children. Lambert had a wife and two children. For her, he was the “captivating” man she met in 1984 when she was in the world of animal rights defense. She claims that she told him “on many occasions” that she wanted to have a child with him.
He didn’t seem to be a bad father, or at least she defined him as “practical and devoted,” when she saw a parent who changed the child’s diapers, bathed him, and brought him gifts. It did not seem strange to him that despite all the excuses for not appearing in the documents as the father, he did contribute financially.
A movie alibi: flight to Spain as an animal rights leader
If up to this point the story already showed potential to outline a political espionage film, Lambert’s alibi when he broke ties with that stage of his life is not far behind in terms of fiction either. When they broke up, he had first told Jacqie that he had left to live an “off-grid” life, boasting an anti-capitalist lifestyle.
Then he told them that he had to get out quickly because the police were hot on his heels. Why exactly? Because they had evidence that he would have committed crimes to promote campaigns in favor of animal rights. That’s how it was invented that he was going to Spain on that getaway.
In reality, instead of all those alibis, what had happened to Lambert was that he had risen in the early 1990s, becoming a senior officer in his police squad. He ended up being distinguished by the police for that work.undercover‘ and even receiving an Order of the British Empire for his police work.
As an anecdote, within the framework of that work, Lambert is accused of starting a fire in a Debenhams branch while pretending to campaign against the fur trade. Did you get so into the role you played?
Remember The Guardian that Lambert will have to go through court this week. Sir John Mitting, a retired judge, is examining the conduct of some 139 undercover police officers who spied on tens of thousands of mainly left-wing activists between 1968 and 2010.
