‘Exclusive: the inside story of a police operation that secretly took over a child abuse forum in a six-month sting, and the stunning breakthrough that led them to snaring Richard Huckle, ‘Britain’s worst-ever paedophile’.’
The Guardian, 13th July 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The question of whether police spied on elected politicians could turn out to be one of the major issues that will be examined by the public inquiry into undercover policing.’
The Guardian, 18th February 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The publication on Thursday of the long awaited report by Sir Robert Owen into the circumstances of the death of Alexander Litivenko from polonium poisoning on 23 November 2006 has (unsurprisingly) resulted in bitter criticism by the Russian Government of the Inquiry’s conclusions that the poisoning was probably directed by the Russian Federal Security Service, and probably approved by President Putin. The report is long (246 pages not including Appendices), but in page after page of readable and measured prose Sir Robert Owen tells the extraordinary story of Alexander Litvinenko’s death and the subsequent 9 year investigation into it.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 25th January 2016
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The long-awaited findings of a public inquiry into the killing of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko are due to be released by a judge.’
BBC News, 21st January 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A large number of files detailing the covert police surveillance of campaigners and trade unionists have been published online following the launch of a new project.’
The Guardian, 14th January 2016
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A judge has refused to order the disclosure of an official document that would shed more light on how an undercover operation caused the wrongful conviction of an environmental campaigner.’
The Guardian, 17th December 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The inquiry report into the death of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006 has been completed.’
BBC News, 15th December 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Police chiefs have apologised unreservedly to seven women who were deceived into forming long-term relationships with undercover police officers, it has been announced.The Metropolitan police have also paid substantial, undisclosed amounts of compensation to the women who had intimate relationships, lasting up to nine years, with the undercover spies.’
The Guardian, 20th November 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A public inquiry is to scrutinise allegations that police covertly monitored Labour MPs including Jeremy Corbyn and Ken Livingstone in the 1990s.’
The Guardian, 6th November 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Undercover police officers who disclose crucial evidence to a public inquiry into the covert infiltration of political groups could be given immunity from prosecution.’
The Guardian, 28th July 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Theresa May also establishes miscarriages of justice panel to sit alongside inquiry following Mark Ellison’s review.’
Home Office, 16th July 2015
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
‘More than 80 activists who were investigated by undercover officers could have been victims of miscarriages of justice, a report has concluded.’
BBC News, 16th July 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The criminal conviction of a campaigner is to be quashed after prosecutors admitted an undercover police officer gave evidence in a court case using a fake identity. Michael Gracia’s conviction for assaulting an officer during a pro-cycling demonstration is to be overturned as prosecutors conceded one of the co-defendants at his original trial was working undercover for the police.’
The Guardian, 23rd June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A public inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko opens in the high court on Tuesday, eight years after the former Russian intelligence officer and MI6 informant was murdered in London with deadly polonium.’
The Guardian, 27th January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘British intelligence agencies have policies allowing staff to access confidential communications between lawyers and their clients, official documents have revealed.’
BBC news, 6th November 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Metropolitan police are to pay more than £400,000 to a woman who has been profoundly traumatised after discovering by chance that the father of her son was an undercover police officer.’
The Guardian, 23rd October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Scotland Yard undercover unit that gathered intelligence on 18 grieving families was known by police chiefs six years ago to have been so out of control it had “lost [its] moral compass” and become a “force within a force”.’
The Guardian, 24th July 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Government is expected to announce today that a public inquiry at last be held into the death of the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned with radioactive polonium-210 in London in 2006.’
The Independent, 22nd July 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Home Secretary Theresa May today announced details of a review of criminal convictions in cases involving undercover police officers.’
Home Office, 26th June 2014
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
‘Women who say they were deceived into forming long-term, sexual relationships with undercover police officers are challenging “absurd, shambolic and incoherent” attempts by police chiefs to block their lawsuit, the high court has heard.’
The Guardian, 5th June 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
