Sex, Lies and Police spies: The Met’s undercover police scandal
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
First commissioned in 2015 by then Home Secretary Theresa May, the investigation is aiming to discover the truth about undercover policing over the past 50 years and provide recommendations for the future.
On the Sky News Daily with Niall Paterson, our Home Editor Jason Farrell explains the history of ‘spycops’ that led to the inquiry, and Kate Wilson, an environmental activist who was deceived into a two-year intimate relationship by an undercover police officer in 2003, talks about her experience.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Interviews producer: Alex Edden
Editor: Danielle Weekes-Chilufya
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| 0:38.9 | And what about the big daddy loaded half egg filled with caramel and peanut chunks and dark |
| 0:44.4 | chocolate pieces or the Swiss chocolate crispy cloud egg with crunchy corn flakes, salted caramel and almond? |
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| 1:07.0 | The greatest injustices are often concealed behind the most banal of names. As such, let me introduce |
| 1:14.1 | you to the Metropolitan Police Special Operations Squad. Formed back in 1968, its members |
| 1:20.9 | infiltrated activist groups and reported on their activities. And this, in and of itself, would not |
| 1:26.8 | normally be worthy of a judge-led |
| 1:29.2 | inquiry. But the identities of dead children were sometimes used as cover stories for officers. |
| 1:35.5 | Some also formed sexual relationships with those they were surveilling, and even fathered children |
| 1:41.0 | without revealing their true identities. I met Mark in 2003. We got into a relationship very quickly. We moved in together. He was finally |
| 1:53.2 | found out to have been an undercover officer. There's women out there that still don't know that they were deceived into intimate relationships. |
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