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This week the whistleblower who revealed how undercover police officers infiltrated the campaign to bring the killers of Stephen Lawrence to justice gave evidence to an official inquiry.
He revealed how undercover officers from the unit spied on the family of Stephen Lawrence during their campaign to bring his killers to justice.
A two-year investigation by the Guardian has already revealed how undercover operatives routinely adopted the identities of dead children and formed long-term sexual relationships with people they were spying on.
It comes as the inquiry – led by a senior judge, Lord Justice Pitchford – has started preparing to hold public hearings looking at how undercover police officers have infiltrated hundreds of political groups since 1968.
Pitchford is seeking to investigate the full extent of the practice by police forces in England and Wales, as part of his inquiry into how undercover officers have spied on hundreds of political groups since 1968.
It is one of a series of allegations that will be looked at during the inquiry, which will examine how undercover police units infiltrated hundreds of political groups over more than 40 years.
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This and this describe how the undercover police developed this technique to create their aliases.
The inquiry will, among other things, examine how the undercover police gathered intelligence about protesters, deceived women into forming long-term relationships, and hid evidence in court cases.
The paper has previously exposed how some undercover officers formed long-term sexual relationships to help win the trust of groups they were infiltrating.
A judge has refused to order the disclosure of an official document that would shed more light on how an undercover operation caused the wrongful conviction of an environmental campaigner.
The original Observer report, written by Tony Thompson, detailed how an undercover officer, known only as Officer A, who had spent four years infiltrating anti-racist groups, had also formed relationships with two of his female targets "as a way of obtaining intelligence".
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