On 11 June 2015, the Government published ‘A question of trust: report of the investigatory powers review‘ by David Anderson Q.C., the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation. Jenny Jones, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb, gave an excellent response to the report…
Secret Police, Secret Powers, Secret Abuse
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…
A Brief History of Undercover Cops
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…