Tag Archives: #spycops
#spycops victims seek end to Police’s ‘NCND’ wall of silence
See my previous posts on this case here, and the Police Spies Out of Lives campaign website here. The ongoing ‘spycops’ litigation continued this week in the High Court, as a group of the victim claimants asked the court to order the Metropolitan Police to file a proper defence to their legal claim. Despite abandoning […]
Police abandon #spycops strike-out
In an unexpected and welcomed move the Met yesterday announced that it will no longer attempt to strike out claims brought by five women in respect of the undercover police officers who deceived them into sexual relationships. I have previously written about the ongoing #spycops saga here, here, and here. The claimants had brought civil […]
Spycops Appeal: Partial Victory
The Court of Appeal yesterday ruled on the ‘spycops’ appeal which was heard in October. I previously wrote about the appeal here and commented on the undercover policing revelations in general here. The case is a complex one; there are essentially two sets of claims being brought by eight Claimants represented by two law firms. The […]
Undercover Policing on Trial
Background Earlier this year a book and Channel 4 documentary by Paul Lewis and Rob Evans blew the lid off the darker side of British undercover policing, revealing that since the 1970s undercover police officers of the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) had routinely deceived female activists into committed sexual relationships. This followed the inadvertent outing […]
“Raped by the state”: undercover policing exposed
Hats off to Paul Lewis and Channel 4, who last night managed to shed some well-needed light on the extent to which undercover police officers are used to spy on British activists. ‘Dispatches: The Police’s Dirty Secret’ centres around former undercover officer Peter Francis, who has decided to blow the whistle on the operations of […]
Law is War 