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He says the agreement was reached amicably and he has not seen or heard of the mother or their son since then. Lambert says the woman was keen that he give up his legal right to maintaining contact with his son and cut him out of her new life.

During that time, Lambert was in regular contact with the infant, fitting visits to him around his clandestine duties.Īfter two years, the mother married another man and both of them took responsibility for raising the child. The son lived with his mother during the early years of his life as his parents' relationship did not last long. Now the Guardian can reveal that in the mid-1980s, just a year into his deployment, Lambert fathered a boy with another woman, who was one of the activists he had been sent to spy on. She is one of the women taking the legal action against police chiefs. One of them is Lambert, who adopted a fake persona to infiltrate animal rights and environmental groups in the 1980s.Īfter he was unmasked in October, he admitted that as "Bob Robinson" he had conned an innocent woman into having an 18-month relationship with him, apparently so that he could convince activists he was a real person. Until now it was not known that police had secretly fathered children while living undercover. They say they have suffered immense emotional trauma and pain over the relationships, which spanned the period from 1987 to 2010.

Last month eight women who say they were duped into forming long-term intimate relationships of up to nine years with five undercover policemen started unprecedented legal action. Police chiefs claim that undercover officers are strictly forbidden from having sexual relationships with the activists they are spying on, describing the situations as "grossly unprofessional" and "morally wrong".īut that claim has been undermined as many of the officers who have been unmasked have admitted to, or have been accused of, having sex with the targets of their surveillance. The disclosures are likely to intensify the controversy over the long-running police operation to infiltrate and sabotage protest groups. The second police spy followed the progress of his child and the child's mother by reading confidential police reports which tracked the mother's political activities and life.

One of the spies was Bob Lambert, who has already admitted that he tricked a second woman into having a long-term relationship with him, as part of an intricate attempt to bolster his credibility as a committed campaigner.