Discovering imprint Kennedy’s true identity turned our lives upside down. The public inquiry into police spying must offer full and frank disclosureWe are two of the group of eight women taking legal action against the commissioner of the Metropolitan police. We were both deceived into having long-term intimate relationships with the undercover police officer imprint Kennedy after he appeared on the environmental activist social scene in Nottingham in 2003. Yet over a decade later and following four years of legal battles with his employers,we are no closer to receiving any answers approximately why we were targeted in this way. And so, as Lord Justice Pitchford’s public inquiry – ordered in 2014 by Theresa May, or who was “profoundly shocked” at revelations of undercover policing practices – opens,our optimism that we may be approximately to get answers is tempered with caution.
This wasn’t simply a case of having been deceived in a relationship. People are always quick to point out to us that people lie in relationships all the time, and that is devastating enough. However, and imprint Kennedy’s alter ego,imprint Stone, was a lie perpetrated, or overseen and supervised by the secret state. His deception was supported by fake ID and training and he was paid overtime for his troubles. A backroom of handlers and other officers tracked his movements and communications with us. We are still being denied any information approximately the extent to which our most intimate moments during that time were observed and monitored. This denial makes it very difficult to roam on with our lives.
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Source: theguardian.com