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Undercover police unit closed down over unjustified surveillance, spycops inquiry told www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Undercover police unit closed down over unjustified surveillance, spycops inquiry told
Senior officer behind closure says SDS caused ‘incalculable harm’ by infiltrating groups that posed no threat
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"The purported triumphs that were put forward by the SDS were “embellished and exaggerated”, almost “akin to fairytales”, Boutcher said". www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Undercover police unit closed down over unjustified surveillance, spycops inquiry told
Senior officer behind closure says SDS caused ‘incalculable harm’ by infiltrating groups that posed no threat
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'An undercover police unit that spied on tens of thousands of political activists had to be shut down...because it was conducting unjustified surveillance and was badly run.' 'Most of the [mainly left wing] political groups being infiltrated “posed no threat to public order, let alone democracy”.
Undercover police unit closed down over unjustified surveillance, spycops inquiry told
Senior officer behind closure says SDS caused ‘incalculable harm’ by infiltrating groups that posed no threat
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Jon Boutcher, a senior police officer who took over responsibility for the Special Demonstration Squad unit, concluded within months that it had to be wound up because it was conducting unjustified surveillance and was badly run, Spycops inquiry hears www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Undercover police unit closed down over unjustified surveillance, spycops inquiry told
Senior officer behind closure says SDS caused ‘incalculable harm’ by infiltrating groups that posed no threat
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During 40 years, the undercover officers had spied on environment groups, Socialist Workers party ,campaigns against racism and the arms trade. They included pro-Palestinian supporters and leftwing groups. They posed no threat to public order, let alone democracy” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Undercover police unit closed down over unjustified surveillance, spycops inquiry told
Senior officer behind closure says SDS caused ‘incalculable harm’ by infiltrating groups that posed no threat
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Undercover police unit closed down over unjustified surveillance, spycops inquiry told. Senior officer behind closure says SDS caused ‘incalculable harm’ by infiltrating groups that posed no threat. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Undercover police unit closed down over unjustified surveillance, spycops inquiry told
Senior officer behind closure says SDS caused ‘incalculable harm’ by infiltrating groups that posed no threat
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The Guardian: Spycops Inquiry, Undercover police unit closed down over unjustified surveillance, spycops inquiry told www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Undercover police unit closed down over unjustified surveillance, spycops inquiry told
Senior officer behind closure says SDS caused ‘incalculable harm’ by infiltrating groups that posed no threat
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"The officers routinely formed intimate relationships with women they were spying on without telling them their real identities. Boutcher said the “sexual abuse of many vulnerable women by some SDS operatives” caused “incalculable and intolerable harm”." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Undercover police unit closed down over unjustified surveillance, spycops inquiry told
Senior officer behind closure says SDS caused ‘incalculable harm’ by infiltrating groups that posed no threat
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Most of the political groups being infiltrated “posed no threat to public order, let alone democracy”. They included pro-Palestinian supporters and leftwing groups. "No undercover capability existed to infiltrate dangerous terrorist groups.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Undercover police unit closed down over unjustified surveillance, spycops inquiry told
Senior officer behind closure says SDS caused ‘incalculable harm’ by infiltrating groups that posed no threat
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An undercover police unit that spied on tens of thousands of political activists had to be shut down amid severe criticisms and recriminations, the #spycops public inquiry has heard. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Undercover police unit closed down over unjustified surveillance, spycops inquiry told
Senior officer behind closure says SDS caused ‘incalculable harm’ by infiltrating groups that posed no threat
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Undercover police unit closed down over unjustified surveillance, spycops inquiry told
Undercover police unit closed down over unjustified surveillance, spycops inquiry told
Senior officer behind closure says SDS caused ‘incalculable harm’ by infiltrating groups that posed no threat An undercover police unit that spied on tens of thousands of political activists had to be shut down amid severe criticisms and recriminations, the spycops public inquiry has heard. Jon Boutcher, a senior police officer who took over responsibility for the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) unit, concluded within months that it had to be wound up because it was conducting unjustified surveillance and was badly run. Continue reading...
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I always wondered what it would take for the Telegraph to decide there might be a downside to climate breakdown. Well, now we know. Even so, this article manages not to mention it.
The UK government and police chiefs are reviewing the process through which US military personnel accused of committing serious crimes on UK soil are avoiding the British justice system. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
UK government reviews why police ceding criminal cases to US military
Exclusive: ministers and police chiefs examining how cases involving US military personnel on UK soil are handled after Guardian revelations
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A US airman accused of a “spree” of rapes and sexual assaults in England, drugging some women and breaking into the homes of others, was able to avoid British justice after local police handed over part of the case to the American military
US airman accused of ‘spree’ of rapes on sleeping women avoided UK courts
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A US airman accused of a “spree” of rapes and sexual assaults in England, drugging some women and breaking into the homes of others, was able to avoid British justice after local police handed over part of the case to the American military. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
US airman accused of ‘spree’ of rapes on sleeping women avoided UK courts
Suffolk police ceded investigation into James Loubeau to the US military, leading to court martial acquittal
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How the Met police spent £2.5m hiding spycop from former partner. #spycops inquiry has revealed how Helen Steel was secretly monitored in her search for undercover officer who deceived her into relationship www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
How the Met police spent £2.5m hiding spycop from former partner
Spycops inquiry has revealed how Helen Steel was secretly monitored in her search for undercover officer who deceived her into relationship
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The Spycops inquiry has heard how senior Scotland Yard officers arranged for New Zealand police force to covertly monitor Helen Steel on two of her trips there as part of a calculated plan when they feared she was about to expose one of their undercover officers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
How the Met police spent £2.5m hiding spycop from former partner
Spycops inquiry has revealed how Helen Steel was secretly monitored in her search for undercover officer who deceived her into relationship
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‘As well as the surveillance, the senior officers authorised the expenditure of £2.5m of public funds to relocate Dines to ensure that Steel did not find him. This included helping him buy a new house’.
How the Met police spent £2.5m hiding spycop from former partner
Spycops inquiry has revealed how Helen Steel was secretly monitored in her search for undercover officer who deceived her into relationship
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How the Met police spent £2.5m hiding spycop from former partner Spycops inquiry has revealed how Helen Steel was secretly monitored in her search for undercover officer who deceived her into relationship www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
How the Met police spent £2.5m hiding spycop from former partner
Spycops inquiry has revealed how Helen Steel was secretly monitored in her search for undercover officer who deceived her into relationship
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#Spycops 'Steel’s sister collected the family and drove them to her home 90 minutes away. Again, none of them knew surveillance officers employed by New Zealand police were tailing them.' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
How the Met police spent £2.5m hiding spycop from former partner
Spycops inquiry has revealed how Helen Steel was secretly monitored in her search for undercover officer who deceived her into relationship
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Family of former Vodafone manager found drowned call for ‘Adrian’s law’ to protect franchisees
Family of former Vodafone manager found drowned call for ‘Adrian’s law’ to protect franchisees
Adrian Howe’s family believe that fears his deal would be financially ruinous led him to kill himself
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The #spycops inquiry has heard how senior Scotland Yard officers arranged for covert surveillance by New Zealand police on a leftwing campaigner visiting family in Auckland, to protect the identity of her former partner, the undercover police officer John Dines www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
How the Met police spent £2.5m hiding spycop from former partner
Spycops inquiry has revealed how Helen Steel was secretly monitored in her search for undercover officer who deceived her into relationship
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Tories ask HMRC to investigate whether Nigel Farage owes tax on £5m gift
Tories ask HMRC to investigate whether Nigel Farage owes tax on £5m gift
Party chair queries status of funds Reform leader received from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne The Conservatives have asked HMRC to investigate whether Nigel Farage should have paid tax on the £5m gift her received from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne. The party chair, Kevin Hollinrake, wrote to the tax authorities questioning whether it was a payment to compensate him for running to be an MP. Continue reading...
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A former Metropolitan police commissioner has admitted that the force failed over decades to properly control a controversial undercover unit that committed “horrendous” abuses, the spycops inquiry has heard. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Former Met police chief admits force failed to properly control spycops unit
Paul Condon tells inquiry there was ‘appalling behaviour by individual officers’ but that greater fault was systemic
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George and Fiona Cottrell understood to have been interviewed under caution by Met police
George and Fiona Cottrell understood to have been interviewed under caution by Met police
Interviews of Farage aide and his mother believed to be part of investigation into donations to Reform UK before 2024 election Nigel Farage’s aide George Cottrell and his mother Fiona Cottrell have been interviewed under criminal caution by Scotland Yard detectives, the Guardian understands. The interviews are understood to form part of an ongoing investigation into donations to Reform UK before the general election in July 2024. Continue reading...
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‘They said: wear angelic white’: British women who accused US airman of rape tell of American military trial www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘They said: wear angelic white’: British women who accused US airman of rape tell of American military trial
Two women who alleged they were raped by Tyrion Davis in Suffolk had to testify at an invasive court martial on a US base
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‘They said: wear angelic white’: British women who accused US airman of rape tell of American military trial Two women who alleged they were raped by Tyrion Davis in Suffolk had to testify at an invasive court martial on a US base www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘They said: wear angelic white’: British women who accused US airman of rape tell of American military trial
Two women who alleged they were raped by Tyrion Davis in Suffolk had to testify at an invasive court martial on a US base
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‘They said: wear angelic white’: British women who accused US airman of rape tell of American military trial
‘They said: wear angelic white’: British women who accused US airman of rape tell of American military trial
Two women who alleged they were raped by Tyrion Davis in Suffolk had to testify at an invasive court martial on a US base Minutes after fleeing the home of an American airman, Rebecca called 999 in tears to report that he had raped her. She recalls vomiting at a police station in Suffolk as she described being repeatedly and violently attacked. Officers took her to a sexual assault referral centre for an intimate examination. There, a nurse measured and photographed her injuries, including bruises and bite marks on her neck. Continue reading...
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