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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rob Evans

Victims say Home Office attempt to curtail spycops inquiry will result in a ‘cover-up’

Kate Wilson, an activist who was deceived into a relationship with undercover police officer Mark Kennedy.
Kate Wilson, an activist who was deceived into a relationship with an undercover police officer said: ‘We may never understand the full extent of the misconduct that has occurred in undercover policing’. Photograph: Jordi Matas/The Guardian

Victims of intrusive police surveillance have accused the government of seeking to cut short the spycops public inquiry that has been examining widespread misconduct committed by undercover officers.

The independent judge-led inquiry is scrutinising how officers, who spied on tens of thousands of political activists over more than four decades, carried out abuses such as deceiving women into sexual relationships and fathering children.

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