Is the public about to catch on to the spycops scandal? Alison from Police Spies Out of Lives - which represents women deceived into relationships by undercover police officers - is interviewed in this new podcast from Standard Issue.
Three great spycops articles from the Guardian today:
At least 25 spycops deceived women they spied on into sexual relationships, 4 of them having kids. The true figure is likely much higher - the public inquiry has granted most of them anonymity, we only have full details on the ones we unmasked ourselves.
"One bad apple? It was a whole rotten barrel" - large feature in today's Times speaking to several of the women who exposed their partners as #spycops & lifted the lid on 50 years of the unlawful police unit & its institutional sexism. Here's a link without a paywall: https://archive.ph/fRIw2
5 women deceived into relationships by spycops have joined forces to tell their stories.
On 6 March - Thursday next week - ITV premieres the 3-part series, The Undercover Police Scandal: Love & Lies Exposed.
In the build-up, here's a feature in yesterday's Daily Mirror:
Live report from the Undercover Policing Inquiry on the second day of questioning the manager Tony Waite. This unrepentant & unreformed Special Demonstration Squad boss shows a complete lack of concern over his officers setting up miscarriages of justice.
Tom Fowler & Chris Brian from the Undercover Research Group discuss what they just heard:
The #spycops public inquiry resumes with the questioning of unit manager DCI Tony Waite who's just admitted ignoring Home Office demands for limits to the spying. Here's Tom Fowler & Donal O'Driscoll with their reaction to the first part of the day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Q0nhEFTrw
So today the Undercover Policing Inquiry has:
refused to livestream the hearing despite the witness asking for it banned video journalist Tom Fowler from doing reports in the building given anonymity to an officer who deceived a woman into a relationship.
The most secret public inquiry ever.
