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19 Nov, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Thread of Media articles on Day 14 of the #SpyCopsInquiry.

Today was the last of Phase 1, Tranche 1. It included evidence summaries of 4 former #spycops & 1 evidence hearing

Police spies may have had no choice over sexual relationships, officer claims
theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/n…
Spycop compares officers tricking women into sexual relationships with a covert drug squad ‘sampling the product’

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/spyc…
Appalling and unnecessary: UK spycops’ needless theft of dead children’s identities under scrutiny

rt.com/uk/507214-uk-s…
Undercover police say sex with activists ‘like sampling drugs’ [paywall]

thetimes.co.uk/article/underc…
Spycops inquiry: ‘An establishment cover up taking place before our eyes’

thejusticegap.com/spycops-inquir…
Spy cop claims 'sleeping with activists while undercover is like sampling drugs while investigating dealers' and that officers had 'NO choice' but to deceive the women

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…
Victims of covert policing are being failed by inquiry [paywall]

thetimes.co.uk/article/victim…
Secret mission! How detective grew a beard and started to wear corduroy to infiltrate activist groups

camdennewjournal.com/article/secret…

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19 Nov
Today was the last day of the #spycopsinquiry for a while. The last evidence hearing of the this tranche of the inquiry was one of the more illuminating of the all the questioning of former #spycops officers so far. Though there was just as many lapses of memory for HN345 as...
... previous officers, he was more forthcoming than most. The blanket denial of any knowledge of the Mangrove Nine (subject of the recent #SmallAxe film) by the only #spycops officer who had infiltrated Black Power groups in the UK in 1971 is so completely ridiculous...
... as to suggest that he was lying about everything else he had 'forgot' too. But when the man who called himself
"Peter Fredericks" did remember things, he claimed to remember them fairly well. But it was the opinions and attitudes that he displayed which last in the mind...
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Tom Fowler Profile picture
18 Nov
Media articles thread for Day 13 of #SpyCopsInquiry

Only session was evidence hearing of former #spycops officer HN348 "Sandra Davies" who infiltrated Women's Liberation '71-'73.

Officer wasted her time spying on group pushing for equal pay, inquiry told
theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/n…
Spycop who infiltrated women's rights groups in the ’70s says her work was not worthwhile

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/spyc…
Actor Maxine Peake joins live readings from Undercover Policing Inquiry

belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/actor-…
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Tom Fowler Profile picture
9 Nov
Media articles on Day 6 of the #spycopsinquiry, a thread.

Undercover #spycops officer rekindled relationship seven years later, inquiry told
theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/n…
Woman was tricked into relationship with undercover police officer until 2015 - four years AFTER conduct of Met Police moles was made public, '#Spycops inquiry hears

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…
Families ‘waiting in limbo’ to find out if their dead children’s identities used by #spycops police, inquiry told

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
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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 Profile picture
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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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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