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Tom Fowler

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9 Nov

Ahead of the restart of the #spycops inquiry at 10am here are some media articles from over the weekend:

My fiancé was an undercover police #spycops officer who was already married with children [paywall]
telegraph.co.uk/women/life/fia…

#Spycops probe accused of snubbing women's ‘pivotal’ role in uncovering the scandal
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/spyc…

Father fears undercover #spycops police stole lost son’s identity and joins other parents demanding answers
sundaypost.com/fp/to-think-be…

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Tom Fowler

@tombfowler

7 Nov

I didn't write up any reflections of yesterday's #spycopsinquiry hearing because after five days of live tweeting I was in urgent need of a big bag of cans. But I think it's fair to say that the submissions highlighted some of the worst ways in which #spycops undermined...

... not only the lives of the people they targeted, the causes those people campaigned for, but also for the very society we live in today. The opening statement on behalf of the NUM highlighted the way that the 84/85 strike was subject to the most unrelenting attack not just...

... on the miners, their families and their communities but on the entire working class. It is just one of the moments of British political history fundamentally disrupted by undercover infiltration. Whilst there has been much said about how this person or that group were...

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Tom Fowler

@tombfowler

5 Nov

Here's today's thread of media articles on the #SpyCopsInquiry

Family of murdered teenager worry the ‘role of racism’ in undercover #spycops policing will ‘remain hidden’

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/fami…

'#Spycops' inquiry hears how Piers Corbyn was a surveillance target for almost two decades after joining the squatting movement in the 1970s

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…

Undercover #spycops officers wives duped into believing families were at risk
policeoracle.com/news/investiga…

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Tom Fowler

@tombfowler

5 Nov

Discovering that they were subject to spying by #spycops has had profound and long lasting impact on many Core Participants and others. They have some limited information about what took place, but many, many unanswered questions remain.

This Inquiry should make clear recommendations to ensure that undercover policing of this kind does not happen again.

Disproportionate, politicised and unregulated undercover surveillance is never acceptable. The horrendous abuses of the rights of these Core Participants –

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Tom Fowler

@tombfowler

5 Nov

Geoff Sheppard and Andrew Clarke, were convicted of offences including arson committed in July 1987. They were alleged to have been involved in the making and then planting of incendiary devices intended to set off sprinkler systems in Debenhams stores.

At their trial it was alleged that Mr Clarke and Mr Sheppard was connected to the devices which were planted by a third person. What was not revealed was that the third man who participated in this activity with them, planting devices, was, in fact, #spycops officer: Bob Lambert.

Both Mr Clarke and Mr Sheppard served long prison sentences for their part in that activity. Their lives were dramatically changed as a result. In contrast Bob Lambert, the police officer who encouraged them and planted one of the incendiary devices, did not.

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Tom Fowler

@tombfowler

5 Nov

Dr Graham Smith and Mark Metcalf: Colin Roach Centre and Hackney Community Defence Association: The Trevor Monerville and ‘Justice for Tunay’ campaigns formed the HCDA, with the aim of providing the victims of police abuses of power with a campaigning voice.

In 1993 Dr Graham Smith & Mark Metcalf were involved in the establishment of the Colin Roach Centre (“CRC”), named after Colin Roach who was shot dead 10 years previously in Stoke Newington police station. The CRC was broken into and its computers were destroyed. #spycops

In 1995 PC Mark Jenner, working undercover as ‘Mark Cassidy’, infiltrated the CRC. He became active in the centre’s political life, including writing its internal bulletin. He attended member’s meetings & was privy to confidential information concerning cases against the police.

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