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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Aamna Mohdin and Rob Evans

Labour peer condemns ‘cover-up’ of undercover police officer’s ‘vile’ deception

Shami Chakrabarti
Shami Chakrabarti: ‘The scandal here is not only the vile behaviour of an individual officer but the alleged institutional cover-up and victim-bullying by Avon and Somerset police.’ Photograph: Michael Bowles/Rex/Shutterstock

A prominent Labour peer has condemned the alleged cover-up of an undercover police officer’s 19-year relationship with a woman he deceived using his fake identity.

Shami Chakrabarti, the Labour peer and former shadow attorney general for England and Wales, is calling on the home secretary to address the lack of safeguards around undercover operations after the latest revelations.

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