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Police admit destroying files in Spycops inquiry

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POLICE destroyed files relating to anti-war campaigners, unions and several individuals ahead of the undercover policing inquiry, it was heard today. 

The Metropolitan Police Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) spied on campaigners for decades.

A public inquiry was set up when it was revealed that the SDS spied on the family of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence.

It has already heard testimony from victims of the SpyCops, including women activists with whom undercover police officers had relationships with and fathered children without revealing their true identity.

The interim report found the SDS should have been wound up almost as soon as it was established in the 1970s.

The new revelation, released by the inquiry today, shows that the Metropolitan Police deliberately destroyed secret files before they could be seen by the inquiry.

These included reports on the Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Fire Brigades Union, the National Union of Mineworkers, the building union Ucatt, the Jean Charles de Menezes campaign, as well as former MP Dave Nellist and top KC Mike Mansfield.

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Spycops’ victims threaten to walk away from nearly 10 year-long inquiry

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Campaigners from Police Spies out of Lives speak to the media after the publication of first part of the report from the Undercover Policing Inquiry, at Blackfriars Settlement, south east London, June 29, 2023

MORE than 100 victims have threatened to walk away from the long-running “unfair” spycops inquiry.

A total of 92 individuals and 20 activist groups have signed an open letter alleging mistreatment by the probe which began in July 2015.

They have threatened to withhold giving evidence to the next stage of the inquiry covering abuses by the Metropolitan Police’s political undercover units between 1993 and 2014.

The non-state “core participants” called for “full disclosure and reasonable timetables” and that “witnesses must not be excluded as a result of insufficient time to prepare — we seek assurances our evidence will be heard.”

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