Support group for legal action against undercover policing
This article was originally written for STRIKE! Magazine. Police Spies Out of Lives was formed, at the beginning of 2012, as a support group for eight women who were deceived into long-term intimate relationships with undercover police officers. The women…
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…
These draft terms of reference were submitted to the Home Office on behalf of the eight women who have brought claims against the police arising from the forming of intimate relationships by undercover police officers. They are based on an…
Solicitor Harriet Wistrich compares the way the courts handled the cases of Justine McNally and eight undercover police officers. Justine McNally, an 18-year-old lesbian, was sentenced on 21 March 2013 to three years in prison for 6 counts of sexual…
We believe this report is the latest in a long line of official attempts to whitewash the human rights abuses of undercover police officers deceiving women into intimate sexual relationships. The report is full of contradictions on this issue. Despite…