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

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.

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 morning of Wednesday, April 30, 1980, he was assigned as the sole police officer guarding the Iranian Embassy building ... triggering the famous SAS raid on the building.

There was no time or opportunity for sophisticated monitoring technology such as that used in the Iranian Embassy ... SAS for help because their own commandos were not capable of pulling off the raid.

When armed gunmen seized the Iranian Embassy in London, Britain faced a high-stakes hostage crisis. The government's decision to deploy the SAS shocked the world and showcased an elite force in ...

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 ...