{"id":10963,"date":"2020-11-04T08:25:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T16:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=10963"},"modified":"2020-11-07T08:30:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T16:30:32","slug":"spies-and-lies-how-undercover-cops-had-sex-with-innocent-women-they-were-spying-on-even-had-kids-with-them-in-shocking-police-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2020\/11\/04\/spies-and-lies-how-undercover-cops-had-sex-with-innocent-women-they-were-spying-on-even-had-kids-with-them-in-shocking-police-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"SPIES AND LIES How undercover cops had sex with innocent women they were spying on & even had KIDS with them in shocking police scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sun (UK)
\nby Miranda Knox<\/p>\n

GLANCING at the passport of her boyfriend of six years, Lisa\u2019s* heart pounded and a wave of nausea washed over her.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The couple were on holiday in Italy, and while looking for her sunglasses in the car\u2019s glovebox, she\u2019d stumbled across the document \u2013 which revealed, to her shock, that Mark \u201cFlash\u201d Stone was using a fake name.<\/p>\n

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\"'Mark<\/a><\/p>\n
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‘Mark Stone’ with Kate Wilson – one of the women he had a sexual relationship with while infiltrating environmental groups<\/span>Credit: Kate Wilson<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The discovery sent her life into freefall, as it later emerged the love of her life was actually an undercover Met Police officer, sent to spy on her and her eco-activist friends.<\/p>\n

Despite sounding like the plot of a far-fetched film, it would transpire this was far from a one-off case.<\/p>\n

Over more than four decades at least 139 police officers were given false identities to spy on more than 1,000 campaign groups.<\/p>\n

Each officer lived undercover for up to nine years, forming close relationships and friendships.<\/p>\n

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\"Mark<\/a><\/p>\n
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Mark Kennedy used the name Mark Stone during his undercover operations, some of which lasted years<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Shockingly, more than 20 were known to have had sexual relationships with women who were unaware of their real identities between the 1970s and 2010, and least three fathered children with their unsuspecting victims.<\/p>\n

Here, as the public inquiry that was announced six years ago finally began this week, we take a closer look at the scandal, and the women whose lives were left in tatters\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2018He was paid overtime to spend nights with me\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

While the Met has claimed officers were not allowed to have sexual relationships with targets, it appears it was a regular occurrence.<\/p>\n

Lisa’s partner, Mark Kennedy, actually had affairs with at least two unwitting women in the seven years he infiltrated an environmental group before he was exposed in 2010.<\/p>\n

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Speaking about the betrayal to campaign group\u00a0Police Spies Out Of Lives<\/a>, Lisa said: \u201cHe wasn\u2019t just a man who lied to me in a relationship, he was a fictional character, and he was placed in my life by an employer, and his employer was the police, and in order to create that deception he was trained.<\/p>\n

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\"Kennedy<\/a><\/p>\n
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Kennedy spent years in the false relationship with Lisa, who had no idea he was a cop\u00a0<\/span>Credit: Channel 4<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cHe was trained in manipulation techniques, he was trained in lying. A backstory was created for him by and with his employers.<\/p>\n

“He had a backroom team of people supporting him wherever he went, he had a handler, he had people who were issuing him with fake ID.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was being paid overtime for the nights that he spent with me, which must have amounted to quite a lot of money.\u201d<\/p>\n

A childhood based on a lie<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Not only were they left heartbroken, but some of the women even had children with the deceiving officers.<\/p>\n

Jacqui*, then a 22-year-old animal rights activist, was tricked into a three-year relationship by undercover officer Bob Lambert \u2013 who was married at the time.<\/p>\n

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\"Bob<\/a><\/p>\n
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Bob Lambert was in a relationship with an activist who didn’t know he was an undercover cop for three years<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Playing the doting partner, when their son was born in 1985 he was even at her side during labour, but she had no idea about Bob\u2019s real identity until two decades later.<\/p>\n

For all that time, both Jacqui and her son, now 35, believed Bob \u2013 who disappeared without a trace in 1987 \u2013 was a political activist who\u2019d been forced to flee the country to avoid jail.<\/p>\n

Jacqui and Bob\u2019s son \u2013 who has remained anonymous and is known only as TBS \u2013 told\u00a0The Guardian<\/a>\u00a0how hard it had been growing up without a father \u2013 and later finding out he hadn\u2019t been who he thought.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is quite scary to me just how the police can dip in and out of people\u2019s lives,” he said.<\/p>\n

“They still seem to struggle with realising the impact of what they have done.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems very bizarre that when I was born there was not someone who said: \u2018Right, this has gone too far, there\u2019s a whole new life here.\u2019”<\/p>\n

The Metropolitan Police paid Jacqui more than \u00a3400,000 to settle a lawsuit she brought, but incredibly both Jacqui and her son have gone on to build bridges with Bob, and are now in touch.<\/p>\n

“The other women who were duped don\u2019t understand how I can forgive him,” Jacqui told the\u00a0Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Scotland Yard paid \u00a3400,000 to Jacqui for the undercover operation<\/span>Credit: Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“People see him as evil but he\u2019s actually had plenty of suffering himself. It\u2019s been horrendous all round.<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s a been a huge human cost.”<\/p>\n

Spying on bereaved families\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It wasn\u2019t just their relationships that caused controversy.<\/p>\n

Operations of this nature spanned decades up until 2010, but it wasn\u2019t until 2014 that the true extent of the Met\u2019s undercover operations began to come to light \u2013 after it was revealed at least three officers had been sent to spy on the bereaved family of Stephen Lawrence.<\/p>\n

In fact, the inquiry is also set to hear how police repeatedly spied on black justice groups, many of which are run by grieving families whose relatives were killed by police or died in police custody.<\/p>\n

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Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in a racially motivated murder in 1993 – his loved ones were spied on after his killing<\/span>Credit: PA:Press Association<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This included the campaign group fighting for justice for Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, the electrician shot in 2005 after being mistaken for a suicide bomber.<\/p>\n

According to former undercover officer Pete Francis who worked for the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) and spied on the Lawrence campaign, his \u201clowest point\u201d while on the job was attending a candlelit vigil for boxing promoter Brian Douglas after he was killed with a police baton in 1995.<\/p>\n

Francis also had two one night stands with women while undercover but told\u00a0The Guardian<\/a>: \u201cI can rest slightly easier at night than several other SDS officers, because I never promised women I ever loved them or cared about them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never said I wanted to spend the rest of my life with them or wanted to father children with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harvesting dead children\u2019s identities\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In another grim twist, yet more controversy surrounded the force\u2019s other undercover practices.<\/p>\n

To conceal their true identities, disturbingly many officers took on the names of children who\u2019d died.<\/p>\n

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Picketers protesting the abuse by undercover cops outside the Court of Appeal in London in 2013<\/span>Credit: Alamy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Officer Bob Lambert, for example, was deployed to infiltrate the Animal Liberation Front, and he became \u201cBob Robinson\u201d in June 1984 \u2013 a cover name that had been picked from a list of dead children.<\/p>\n

His new identity belonged to Mark Robert Robinson, who died aged seven of a congenital heart defect in October 1959.<\/p>\n

Harrowingly, it\u2019s thought over 100 dead children\u2019s names may have been used.<\/p>\n

\u2018They were deceived, pure and simple\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After all of this came to light, in 2015, the Metropolitan Police issued an \u201cunreserved\u201d apology to the activists who were seduced into \u201cabusive and deceitful\u201d long-term relationships, and have paid out substantial undisclosed sums in civil cases.<\/p>\n

In an apology issued in November 2015, Met Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt said the relationships \u201cshould never have happened\u201d and admitted they \u201cwere a gross violation of personal dignity and integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Demonstrators<\/a><\/p>\n
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Demonstrators carrying a banner denouncing police spies in 2018<\/span>Credit: Alamy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Sun (UK) by Miranda Knox GLANCING at the passport of her boyfriend of six years, Lisa\u2019s* heart pounded and a wave of nausea washed over her.\u00a0 The couple were on holiday in Italy, and while looking for her sunglasses in the car\u2019s glovebox, she\u2019d stumbled across the document \u2013 which revealed, to her shock, … <\/p>\n

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