The #spycops public inquiry has extended its timetable into 2027 & beyond. While nobody like delays, we do want a thorough inquiry rather than a rush job. The blame for the length lies with police obstructions 2014-20 & the Inquiry letting them do it.

https://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2025/07/20/new-spycops-inquiry-timetable/

New on our site - report from the #spycops public inquiry's questioning of 'AFJ', a hunt saboteur & antifascist activist in the 1990s who was spied on by officer HN2 Andy Coles. He exposes the farcicality & lies of Coles's deployment.

https://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2025/07/15/ucpi-daily-report-13-december-2024-afj/

Police call for the #spycops public inquiry to be wound up as it's gone on so long. Translation: 'oh shit, the first bit of the inquiry covered officers who are retired or dead, but next it's going to deal with ones who are still serving officers & things we can't dismiss as ancient history, we really don't want to admit the truth about that'

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/women-daily-telegraph-chris-philp-stephen-lawrence-b1232406.html

Big news from the #spycops public inquiry: the Chair, Sir John Mitting, today announced his intention to retire from the role long before the Inquiry is finished.

https://www.ucpi.org.uk/2025/06/04/inquiry-chair-announces-upcoming-retirement-following-the-publication-of-an-sds-interim-report/

Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files is the searing new book by Kate Wilson, telling her unique story of being deceived into a relationship then fighting a 10 year legal battle to get thousands of secret reports that lay bare the shocking truth about Britain's political secret police. Out now!

https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/kate-wilson-2/disclosure/9781399614337/

Kate Wilson was deceived into a relationship by #spycops officer Mark Kennedy. She fought a 10 year legal battle to get 1000s of secret police documents & have the whole spying operation ruled unlawful. Next week, she publishes her book Disclosure.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/22/spies-lies-and-betrayal-my-ruinous-relationship-with-an-undercover-cop

Kate Wilson was deceived into a relationship by #spycops officer Mark Kennedy. She fought a 10 year legal battle to get answers, eventually forcing the police to give her huge amounts of secret reports. The courts ruled that not just the sexual abuse but the broader political spying was unlawful.

Now Kate tells her story. Her book Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files is out on 29 May.

https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/kate-wilson-2/disclosure/9781399614290/

After spycops officer Andy Coles' appalling appearance at the public inquiry in which he gave contradictory stories & still denies abusing Jessica while undercover, you might expect him to slope off quietly.

But no, he's back & standing for the Tories in Peterborough Council's Barnack ward. Jessica is in the city, telling the electorate the truth about him.

She has a new Facebook page too : https://www.facebook.com/Jessica.me2

Major new spycops resource! The Undercover Research Group have launched their new site
https://spycopsresearch.info/

It's not for beginners, more for those wanting to take a deeper dive into the public inquiry & all the info it's published - secret files, profiles of officers, mapping organisational structure. Huge amount of material & a lot more to come!

More than 100 spied-on individuals & groups have told the #spycops public inquiry they won't be giving evidence unless they're given more time. The Inquiry has delayed its next hearings by 7 months, but is keeping witnesses to earlier impossible deadlines

https://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2025/03/10/treat-us-fairly-demand-spycops-inquiry-participants/

'Alison' lived with her partner Mark Cassidy for 5 years. He integrated into her family & they spent Christmas together. He was actually married #spycops officer Mark Jenner. She is one of dozens of women similarly abused. Yesterday, she told This Morning about her experience.

On Thursday, ITV begin a 3 part documentary. Thursday March 6th on ITV at 9pm.

https://www.itv.com/thismorning/articles/exclusive-my-partner-was-an-undercover-cop-with-a-wife-and-children

Is the public about to catch on to the spycops scandal? Alison from Police Spies Out of Lives - which represents women deceived into relationships by undercover police officers - is interviewed in this new podcast from Standard Issue.

https://podfollow.com/standard-issue-podcast/view

Three great spycops articles from the Guardian today:

At least 25 spycops deceived women they spied on into sexual relationships, 4 of them having kids. The true figure is likely much higher - the public inquiry has granted most of them anonymity, we only have full details on the ones we unmasked ourselves.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/02/revealed-at-least-25-uk-spy-cops-sexual-relations-deceived-women

"One bad apple? It was a whole rotten barrel" - large feature in today's Times speaking to several of the women who exposed their partners as #spycops & lifted the lid on 50 years of the unlawful police unit & its institutional sexism. Here's a link without a paywall: https://archive.ph/fRIw2

5 women deceived into relationships by spycops have joined forces to tell their stories.

On 6 March - Thursday next week - ITV premieres the 3-part series, The Undercover Police Scandal: Love & Lies Exposed.

In the build-up, here's a feature in yesterday's Daily Mirror:

The new 3-part ITV documentary series 'The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed' will premiere on Thursday 6 March at 9pm. Five women deceived into relationships by spycops tell their stories in detail.

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/documentaries/itv-documentary-undercover-police-scandal-newsupdate/

The Undercover Policing Inquiry's finished until the autumn. Our reporting takes us a lot of time & effort. If you like our work & can afford to donate, it'll help ensure we maintain our coverage & analysis when the inquiry resumes

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The afternoon report from the Undercover Policing Inquiry as spycop HN1 'Matt Rayner'denies much of what he did even though there's all manner of evidence and witnesses, and we learn how he was awarded a police commendation for foiling an animal rights activists' plot to kill turkeys. You read that right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25vBSycFnC0

Lunchtime report from the spycops public inquiry whenre officer HN1 'Matt Rayner' has been downlplaying his arrests, denying he did things he blatantly did, & trying to wriggle out of the numerous times that he misled courts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkHke1DvdUw

"It's almost like he believes in his own lies" - at the end of the day of the #spycops public inquiryquestioning officer HN1 'Matt Rayner', incisive analysis & comment from Liz Fuller who he deceived into a relationship while undercover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyS-gTx7hFs