A SPYCOP accused of deceiving a 19-year-old woman into a sexual relationship while he was working undercover is seeking re-election next month as a Tory councillor.
Andy Coles has remained a Conservative member of Peterborough City Council despite being exposed in 2017 as a former officer in the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), a secret unit of the Metropolitan Police accused of serial abuses over decades.
While infiltrating animal rights groups in the 1990s, Mr Coles is said to have started an intimate relationship with a campaigner that lasted more than a year.
Until four years ago, the woman, identified only as Jessica, believed that her first boyfriend had been a 24-year-old activist, but in reality he was a married police officer aged 32.