“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…
Draft terms of reference for Inquiry under the Inquiries Act
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…
Sack Bob Lambert!
The campaign by Islington Against Police Spies to sack Bob Lambert, one of the former undercover police officers who deceived women into relationships, is growing. The next demonstration is 12 noon, 27th March 2015, at the London Metropolitan University where former Special Demonstration Squad…
Double Standards?
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…