21st March 2018 Spycops Inquiry participants took the drastic step of walking out of today’s Hearing to demonstrate their disgust at the lack of disclosure. They have lost faith in the Inquiry under Mitting, and now fear that it will not…
SDS Managers Implicated in human rights abuses – a statement from Kate Wilson
For almost eight years the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) have maintained that officers having sexual relationships undercover could never be an operational tactic. The apologies they have so-far extended to myself and at least eight other women who were…
‘Andy Davey’ aka ‘HN2’ confirmed as being Councillor Andy Coles
I am really pleased the Inquiry has confirmed what everyone has known since May last year. The man who deceived me into a sexual relationship when I was a teenager was an undercover police officer. The name he gave me,…
International Women’s Day
On International Women’s Day, it is with a growing sense of impatience that I reflect on the progress of the UCPI, the public inquiry set up to investigate undercover policing in England and Wales. I am a core participant in…
The Human Rights Legal Action – a primer on a critical case
It is 8 years now since the lid on the undercover policing scandal was first lifted with the exposure of spycop Mark Kennedy. In that time the Metropolitan Police have publicly recognised, acknowledged and apologised for the abuse of activists…