Since bringing a legal case in 2011 with seven other women who were deceived, like me, into an intimate sexual relationship with an undercover police officer, I’ve learned to expect nothing from the police, and not much more from the legal establishment. Nevertheless, when a judge-led public inquiry into undercover policing was established in 2015, many of us welcomed this official investigation into what has become known as the “spy cops” scandal.
Today, John Mitting – the inquiry chair – has published his first interim report about the activities of the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) from 1968-1982 which I have read with mixed feelings.
