"On 30th April 1980, terrorists stormed the Iranian Embassy in London and took twenty-six hostages. A six-day siege ensued, during which the embassy's press attaché, Abbas Lavasani, was murdered. Forty years ago today, the SAS brought the siege to a dramatic end when they stormed the building and rescued the hostages.
On the last day of the siege Salim, the terrorist's leader, noticed a bulge in the wall separating the Iranian and Ethiopian embassies. He pointed it out to PC Lock, one of the hostages. Both Salim and Lock believed that the police had tampered with the wall, weakening it for use as an entry point during an assault.
This claim appears to have first appeared in the book Siege! Princes Gate, London — The Great Embassy Rescue, published in 1980. The authors state that council workmen removed bricks from the wall to facilitate placement of pinhole cameras for surveillance. Other books and articles claim that bricks were removed, leaving just a thin layer of plaster, so that the SAS could burst through the walls and into the embassy. The only evidence for these claims appears to be PC Lock's testimony. Remember that after six days as a hostage, he was tired and emotionally overwrought. There may have been a bulge in the plaster, but not because bricks had been removed…"
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