Court Hearing about Undercover Cop, Marco Jacob’s, abusive relationships – Tuesday 23rd May, 10am, Royal Courts of Justice- Picket outside Royal Court of Justice at 9am
- Police continuing to avoid accountability and disclosure
On Tuesday 23rd May, a legal case over undercover police relationships will return to the High Court, following a hearing last year [1], when police were able to push back disclosure of documents relating to the identity of the officer, his training, deployment and supervision.
Two women and one man are suing The Metropolitan Police, South Wales Police and the Association of Chief Police Officers over sexual abuse committed by an undercover police officer in Cardiff – “Marco Jacobs”.[2]
The Undercover Officer had spent 5 years infiltrating anti-capitalist, anarchist, environmental, animal rights and other campaign groups,[3] developing a number of close personal relationships, and in common with several other undercover police who have been exposed, engaged in the sexual abuse of a number of his targets.[4]
Despite having very publicly apologised to seven women [5] for such deceitful long-term intimate relationships and abuses, Police Lawyers are maintaining delaying and avoiding coming to a settlement in relation to this case. Previous court proceedings moved Human Rights issues to the ‘secret court’ of the IPT.[6] However common law claims against the police are continuing in open court. [7]
On Tuesday 23rd May at 9am, before the Case Management Hearing, there will be a protest outside the Royal Courts of Justice by the claimants and their supporters.[8]
“Despite admitted the wrongdoing of undercover officers, it beggars belief that the police continue to avoid facing up to their responsibilities, heaping extra suffering on the people they targeted.” – Tom Fowler, claimant
Key background info
1. http://www.thecanary.co/2016/06/06/undercover-policing-back-court-police-attempt-withhold-evidence/
2. AJA, ARB, & Thomas Fowler (Claimants) -v- Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis, Chief Constable of South Wales Police, & Association of Chief Police Officers (Defendants)
3. http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jan/19/undercover-police-officer-mark-jacobs
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welsh-protest-groups-infiltrated-police-1859796
https://southwalesanarchists.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/statement-from-cardiff-anarchist-network-can-on-the-infiltration-by-mark-‘marco’-jacobs/
4. http://powerbase.info/index.php/Marco_Jacobs_(alias)
5. http://news.met.police.uk/news/claimants-in-civil-cases-receive-mps-apology-138574
6. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-24831728
7. http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2015/03/26/police-concede-marco-jacobs-was-spycop/
8. https://policespiesoutoflives.org.uk/picket-hearing-marco-jacobs/
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