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MP accuses undercover policeman of firebombing shop
An MP has alleged an undercover police officer planted a fire bomb at a London department store in 1987.
Green MP Caroline Lucas said a jailed man, Geoff Sheppard, believed police officer Bob Lambert planted a device.
Mr Lambert infilitrated the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) in the late 1980s and his evidence helped convict two men of firebombing Debenhams stores in Harrow, Romford and Luton.
The MP used parliamentary privilege to make the allegation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18423441
