Robert Lines

Chief Inspector Robert Lines (PROSE: The Lost Boy) worked for the West Ealing Police and was responsible for the missing person case of Ashley Stafford.

In 2008, Dax Fex Fize Slitheen and Bloorm Vungah Bart Slitheen posed as Jay and Heidi Stafford, and, after they went to the police and reported their son "Ashley Stafford" (actually Luke Smith) as missing, the Chief Inspector took responsibility for the case. He conducted a missing persons report on BBC television together with the disguised Slitheen. Chrissie Jackson recognised Luke on the television and called the police, leading the West Ealing Police and the Chief Inspector to arrive at 13 Bannerman Road, and separated Luke from Sarah Jane, and Luke went to live with who the Inspector believed were the parents of "Ashley". He then took Sarah Jane Smith in questioning at the police station.

After reading files on Sarah Jane from UNIT, he suspected her "powerful friends" of a cover up, but had no real evidence to hold her, so Sarah Jane was allowed to leave, so long as she didn't try to contact "Ashley". (TV: The Lost Boy) Even though Lines investigated Sarah Jane Smith and Luke's life with her, he did not think about investigating the past of the Stafford family. (PROSE: The Lost Boy)