Undercover Met police officers deceived women into having sex including when it was unnecessary to maintain their cover in a practice that brought “shame” upon them, a damning report has found.
The Undercover Policing Inquiry, set up eight years ago by the Home Secretary, said there was no justification for the way in which left-wing and anarchist groups were infiltrated by Scotland Yard’s former Special Demonstration Squad and that its activities would have been brought to a “rapid end” if the tactics had been known to the public at the time.
