When armed gunmen seized the Iranian Embassy in ... to deploy the SAS shocked the world and showcased an elite force in action. This story unpacks the motives behind the siege, the meticulous ...

Former SAS officer Robin Horsfall explained how his team saved 19 hostages from terrorists during the Iranian embassy siege ...

PC Lock was awarded for his bravery after it emerged he had tackled a gunman and saved the life of an SAS soldier.

A POLICE officer hero of the bloody 1980 Iranian Embassy siege has died ... A six-day stand-off ended live on TV when the SAS stormed the embassy, killing five of the six hostage-takers.

The policeman who became a hero of the infamous Iranian ... as the SAS stormed the building. The diplomatic protection officer had a concealed revolver throughout the entire six-day siege and ...

The SAS took over the Royal College of General Practitioners right beside the embassy, which was to be ... was compared with the US failure in Iran days earlier, but the odds were hardly the same: the ...

Trevor Lock, the policeman who was taken hostage in a siege on the Iranian ... the government ordered the SAS to raid the embassy after the gunmen shot dead Iranian press attaché Abbas Lavasani ...

Trevor Lock, the policeman who became a hero of the Iranian Embassy siege ... to a six-day stand-off that was ended when the Special Air Service (SAS) stormed the building, and saw Mr Lock ...

PC Trevor Lock, a hero of the famous Iranian embassy siege in ... Thatcher to send in the then little-known SAS. Image: Members of the SAS storm the embassy. Pic:Sipa/Shutterstock The elite ...