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Welcome to the Alexis L podcast.

And usually emails that come up you out of the blue from solicitors are unwelcome.

The inquiry into the animal impersonator scandal.

I don't know where I'm going to go with that.

It is a whole heap of trouble I could get myself into improvising around that theme.

But a while ago, in the middle, I think of last year, I got an email from a solicitor called Paul

Heron telling me about, basically informing me about how I had been inspired on by a special branch.

And I had a special branch file.

So Paul is now.

And also, Paul is kind of central to the whole Spike-Ops inquiry, which we will get into.

And Paul is with me now.

So hi, Paul.

Hey, Alexi.

How are you doing?

I'm all right. Thank you. So tell me about this file that you discovered.

Well, it wasn't so much a file as such.

The best way to describe it is during the course of the undercover policing inquiry, public disclosure, which is all available

on their website, it lists all kinds of meetings that undercover officers attended. Sometimes they

attended gigs and parties.

And your name was mentioned publicly here,

which is disclosed on the website of the public inquiry.

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