Police lawyer Oliver Sanders told the #SpyCopsInquiry #SpyCops were from a different time, as if it were a single event in 1968 instead of a unit being founded that continued for decades. There was nothing done by early officers that wasn't done by their 21st century counterparts
Even the theft of dead children's identities, which Sanders said stopped long ago, continued. This is #SpyCops officer Rod Richardson, helping to renovate an activist social centre & cafe in Nottingham in 2001. 
Rod Richardson celebrated his 29th birthday on 5 January 2002 at the Elm Tree pub, doing karaoke with a particularly riproaring rendition of Firestarter.
Except it's not Rod Richardson. He died in when he was less than a week old in January 1973. Here's his mother, Barbara Shaw, with his death certificate. It was only in 2013 that she found out his identity had been stolen by the 21st century #SpyCops officer.
The officer would surely have been given anonymity by the #SpyCopsInquiry, like all his colleagues from the National Public Order Intelligence Unit. We only know what he did, & Barbara Shaw only knows the truth, because the spied-upon activists uncovered the truth.
'Rod Richardson' was trained to be a #SpyCops officer - including stealing a dead child's identity - by Andy Coles, who'd been undercover in the 1990s. His current public profile means he too would have been granted anonymity if he hadn't been exposed by activists in 2017.
At the time, Andy Coles was Cambridgeshire's Deputy Police & Crime Commissioner. He resigned when he was outed, but is still a member of Peterborough City Council. When he was #SpyCops, Coles groomed a vulnerable teenager @Jessica_me2 into a relationship bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
The Met have upheld Jessica's complaint against Andy Coles & said he would face the strongest possible disciplinary charges if he were still serving. He still denies everything. Here's Jessica talking about what he did. Decide for yourself who is the liar.
Men like Andy coles, who have abused their roles to violate citizens, should not be in positions of civic trust. Yet the #SpyCopsInquiry has granted anonymity precisely to avoid adverse impact on current status. How many more are there like Andy Coles out there?
How many more officers are there like 'Rod Richardson' who disprove the police's claims of having changed long ago? This is why we need all, the cover names and real names of #SpyCops. We can't trust them to report themselves.
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