This article was written for Occupied Times. On a cold October night in 2010 Mark Kennedy admitted to his partner of six years and a group of close activist friends to being an undercover cop. This event cracked the dam of…
Solidarity shown to Cardiff #spycops case over #NCND
Last night, 24 March 2015, saw a gathering outside Cardiff Central Police station to protest against undercover relationships, and to express disgust at the police’s use of Neither Confirm Nor Deny (NCND) to delay legal actions against them and to…
Mark Jenner confirmed as ‘100%’ SDS undercover cop by whistleblower
A statement from Peter Francis, former undercover officer turned whistleblower, confirms that Mark Jenner (aka Mark Cassidy) was “100% one of my fellow undercover SDS Police Officers”. The High Court had controversially allowed the Metropolitan Police to hide behind their ‘neither…
Solidarity Pickets in Cardiff & London
“It has been over five years since we learned that Mark “Marco” Jacobs was not just another anarchist in the south Wales activist scene, but was actually an undercover police officer. Since then a number of people who were directly…
Public Inquiry into Undercover Policing
We welcome the announcement today that a Public Inquiry into undercover policing will take place as soon as possible. However, we have serious concerns about what such an inquiry will be able to achieve given continuing claims by the Metropolitan…