A FORMER senior Metropolitan Police officer was at the centre of a university blacklisting scandal, campaigners have alleged.

Detective Chief Superintendent Alaric Bonthron ran the Met’s internal complaints unit before leaving the force to take charge of security at King’s College London (KCL).

It was there, campaigners claim, that he drew up a secret watch list of student protesters and barred them from the KCL campus during a royal visit on March 19 this year.