A St Andrews University lecturer and former police spy who was described as being “supremely unsuitable for teaching” has resigned from his position amidst ongoing controversy about his action whilst working as a high ranking police officer.
As reported in St Andrews student newspaper, The Saint, Dr Bob Lambert was outed as a police officer and former undercover agent in 2011.
It later emerged that Dr Lambert was accused of using his position to pursue sexual relationships with women who were also his targets during a five year spell in the 1980s.
Posing as an animal rights activist between 1983 to 1988, the then police officer fathered a son with an unsuspecting woman before abandoning them.
The woman in question, who has referred to experience as “state rape”, subsequently received £400,000 in compensation from the Metropolitan Police.
Dr Lambert was also accused of engaging in a separate long term relationship with a woman in order to lend “credence” to his undercover persona.
In an interview with Channel 4 in 2013, Dr Lambert admitted that he had been “cruel” in pursuing relationships with women in activist groups that he was targeting.
See more in Wednesday’s edition of The Courier.