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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.
by Bethany Rielly
SPECIAL branch kept tabs on journalists seeking to publicise how campaigners exposed a police spy who infiltrated protest groups in the 1970s, a public inquiry heard today.
Undercover officer Richard Clark spied on the Troops Out Movement (TOM), a campaign calling for British soldiers to be withdrawn from Northern Ireland, and quickly rose through the ranks. For a period of several months he even headed the entire movement.
Clark, who used the cover name Rick Gibson, later moved on to infiltrate revolutionary group Big Flame, but campaigners grew suspicious of him and launched an extensive investigation into his background.
AN UNDERCOVER officer “ruthlessly” clawed his way to the top of an Irish solidarity campaign in the 1970s and used his position as leader to destabilise the organisation.
Sinn Fein described the revelations, uncovered last week at the Undercover Policing Inquiry, as disgraceful and “very concerning” today.
On Friday, the inquiry heard how undercover officer Detective Constable Richard Clark infiltrated the Troops Out Movement (TOM), a lawful and peaceful campaign group set up to highlight abuses by the British army in Ireland.
Speaking on behalf of two TOM campaigners, James Scobie QC told the inquiry how Mr Clark, who is now deceased, rose up the ranks by abusing friendships and starting four sexual relationships with women who did not know he was a police spy, to gain trust.