Woman’s life ruined after finding son’s father was undercover police officer, inquiry told

More than 20 years after child was born, inquiry hears, woman found out truth about Bob Lambert in newspaper

A woman has been absolutely ruined" after discovering by chance that the father of her son was an undercover police officer, more than two decades after their child was born, a public inquiry has heard.

The woman, known as Jacqui, described how the undercover officer, Bob Lambert, fathered their son and then vanished two years after his birth, claiming to be on the run from the police.