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A former undercover police officer has told a public inquiry that his colleagues made “gross and offensive” jokes about the women they were deceiving into having sexual relationships.
The officer, Graham Coates, said the jokes and banter were said in the presence of managers who knew about the relationships but deliberately turned a blind eye.
He said the attitude among the officers to the relationships “could best be summed up as “good on you”, “well done”, “go for it”.”
Coates is the first undercover officer who has testified to the inquiry that the managers of the police spies knew they were forming relationships with women during their deployments.
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First published on Thu 22 Apr 2021 12.04 EDT
A fourth undercover officer who spied on political campaigners is alleged to have fathered a child with a woman he met while using a fake identity, a public inquiry has heard.
The officer used the alias Alan Bond while infiltrating the Socialist Workers party between 1981 and 1986.
The allegation is being examined by a judge-led public inquiry that is scrutinising the activities of undercover officers who have spied on more than 1,000 political groups since 1968.
Previously it has been revealed that three undercover officers who spied on leftwing activists between the 1970s and 1990s have had children with campaigners they met during their deployments.
The Metropolitan Police spy who met woman under fake ID and had child with her
The undercover officer infiltrated anarchist and community groups in south London between 1974 and 1976, the inquiry heard
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