Major new spycops resource! The Undercover Research Group have launched their new site
https://spycopsresearch.info/
It's not for beginners, more for those wanting to take a deeper dive into the public inquiry & all the info it's published - secret files, profiles of officers, mapping organisational structure. Huge amount of material & a lot more to come!
More than 100 spied-on individuals & groups have told the #spycops public inquiry they won't be giving evidence unless they're given more time. The Inquiry has delayed its next hearings by 7 months, but is keeping witnesses to earlier impossible deadlines
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.
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:
The new 3-part ITV documentary series 'The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed' will premiere on Thursday 6 March at 9pm. Five women deceived into relationships by spycops tell their stories in detail.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/documentaries/itv-documentary-undercover-police-scandal-newsupdate/
The Undercover Policing Inquiry's finished until the autumn. Our reporting takes us a lot of time & effort. If you like our work & can afford to donate, it'll help ensure we maintain our coverage & analysis when the inquiry resumes
The afternoon report from the Undercover Policing Inquiry as spycop HN1 'Matt Rayner'denies much of what he did even though there's all manner of evidence and witnesses, and we learn how he was awarded a police commendation for foiling an animal rights activists' plot to kill turkeys. You read that right.
Lunchtime report from the spycops public inquiry whenre officer HN1 'Matt Rayner' has been downlplaying his arrests, denying he did things he blatantly did, & trying to wriggle out of the numerous times that he misled courts.
"It's almost like he believes in his own lies" - at the end of the day of the #spycops public inquiryquestioning officer HN1 'Matt Rayner', incisive analysis & comment from Liz Fuller who he deceived into a relationship while undercover
As #spycops officer HN1 'Matt Rayner' gives evidence to the 'public' inquiry in secret today, Tom Fowler talks to one of the people HN1 spied on, Claire Hildreth
A weird day at the #spycops public inquiry, we heard about 45 minutes before it went into a secret session that we're not allowed to hear. Tom Fowler & Heather Mendick give incisive analysis of the deeply flawed structure of the entire inquiry
As with other #spycops managers at the Undercover Policing Inquiry, today Malcolm Macleod is being forced to concede there's no way Bob Lambert could've got his info on the Animal Liberation Front without being deeply involved. Quick reaction in the afternoon break:
Who is HN1? Next week the #spycops public inquiry finishes the current set of hearings (covering 1983-92) with testimony from a key officer, HN1.
He's been given a last-minute set of special measures to protect his anonymity & the Inquiry won't say why
Here's our report from animal rights activist Paul Gravett's 2nd day of testimony at the #spycops public inquiry. He was spied on by at least 5 different cops, 1 of whom kept writing to him in his undercover persona for a year after his deployment ended!
A different reaction video at lunchtime - Tom leaves the #spycops inquiry to join the Defend Our Juries protest at the Royal Courts of Justice which opposes custodial sentences for peaceful protest.
He's joined by fellow spycops inquiry core participants Zoe Young & Tom Harris
At the end of the #spycops inquiry's 1st of 2 days questioning manager HN109 who's not just defending his own actions but also pretty much all of the unit's abuses. His anger at particular other officers and the existence of the inquiry is palpable.
It's not been livestreamed, but Tom & Heather were at the hearing and discuss the day
Lunchtime report from the Undercover Policing Inquiry, hearing from admin officer Michael Couch about how spycops were paid overtime to go out on the lash with activists, putting it all on expenses. He was the one spycops went to if they had any problems, yet claims he can't remember a single specific example.
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
An alliance of people spied on by Britain's political secret police
