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UK: UNDERCOVER POLICING: Police must say if dead children's identities stolen, say parents

23 June 2016

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"Bereaved parents have demanded that police reveal whether the identities of their dead children were stolen by undercover officers who spied on political groups.

One of the parents told a public inquiry on Wednesday she had been left “quite sick” by the uncertainty over whether police had used the identity of her son who had died at the age of 15-months. Another parent whose son had died at two-days-old said she had suffered profound emotional turmoil and anger.

In a practice that was kept secret for decades, undercover officers stole the identities of dead children to help develop the fictitious personas that they used when they spied on political groups. This was done without the consent or knowledge of the parents."

See the story: Police must say if dead children's identities stolen, say parents (The Guardian, link)

And see: Met's undercover unit 'exaggerated its success to secure funds' (The Guardian, link) and: 460 groups spied upon…? (Undercover Research Group, link)

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