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

In the spring of 1980, six armed individuals marched into the Iranian Embassy in South ... following the death of a hostage, the SAS conducted a raid, killing all but one of the gunmen.

I wanted a visa to visit Iran, where the US raid to rescue staff held hostage in its ... status largely to the classic film about it in 1955; the SAS abseiling down the walls of the embassy was on TV ...

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.

A hero police officer who was held hostage during the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980 has died ... The then prime minister Maggie Thatcher ordered the SAS to storm the building after they murdered ...

On the sixth day of the stand-off, the government ordered the SAS to raid the embassy after the gunmen shot dead Iranian press attaché Abbas Lavasani and dumped his body outside the building.

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

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 ...