Shabana Mahmood is concerned about length and £144m cost of inquiry into intrusive police surveillanceVictims of intrusive police surveillance have accused the government of seeking to cut short the spycops public inquiry that...
Read MoreHe was the first partner Kate Wilson ever moved in with; they were together for 16 months, and friends for years afterwards. Then she found out he had been spying on her all alongIn February 2004, Kate Wilson – then 25 and known...
Read MoreSenior officers convened in 2013 to hear ‘unbelievably bad’ news about relationshipProsecutors did not hear evidence from victim before deciding not to charge officer for misconductWoman not told true identity of man...
Read MoreShami Chakrabarti urges home secretary to address lack of safeguards around undercover operations after latest revelationsA prominent Labour peer has condemned the alleged cover-up of an undercover police officer’s 19-year...
Read MoreOfficer concealed real identity and had child with womanAvon and Somerset police waited years before telling victimFamily accuse force of bullying and attempted cover-upWatchdog understood to be investigating senior officersAn...
Read MoreFormer anti-apartheid campaigner hits out a ‘staggering scale’ of covert monitoring of peaceful protestersAt least six undercover police officers spied on the leading Labour politician Peter Hain while he campaigned...
Read MoreOfficer used alias Alan Bond while infiltrating the Socialist Workers party between 1981 and 1986, inquiry hearsA fourth undercover officer who spied on political campaigners is alleged to have fathered a child with a woman he...
Read MoreLegal case against Metropolitan police claims managers allowed undercover officer to continue deceptionAn environmental activist who was deceived into a long-term sexual relationship by an undercover police officer has told a...
Read MoreCampaigners are asking whether Labour leader was involved in cover-up when he was in charge of the CPSA group of environmental campaigners want Keir Starmer to give evidence to the public inquiry into undercover policing amid...
Read MoreMonitoring went on as recently as 2003 when leftwing writer opposed Iraq war, inquiry toldThe leftwing journalist and intellectual Tariq Ali was spied on by at least 14 undercover police officers who went to extraordinary...
Read MoreJudge will hear evidence on undercover operations against campaigns such as Stephen LawrenceSecrets and lies: untangling the UK ‘spy cops’ scandalA public inquiry into undercover policing is poised to reveal details...
Read MoreMargaret Greenwood and Dan Carden step down, saying legislation will have profound impact on civil libertiesTwo Labour frontbenchers have resigned in protest at the party’s failure to oppose legislation allowing MI5 and...
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