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.

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.

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 ...

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.