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For years, undercover officers from the Metropolitan police deceived and manipulated female activists such as McDonald’s campaigner Helen Steel. Her new book reveals their callous tricks

<strong>Exclusive</strong>: Helen Steel flew from London to Australia to confront John Dines, who tricked her into a two-year relationship while he was working undercover

15 December 2020 • 6:00am Womens rights lawyer, Harriet Wistrich, who is representing women deceived in relationships by undercover police officers On 2 November 2020, the Undercover Policing Inquiry had its first public hearing, over five years after it was first established by Theresa May and almost exactly ten years after Mark Stone, a climate change activist was exposed as Mark Kennedy, an undercover police officer.  Kennedy’s deceit was discovered by ‘Lisa’ his long-term lover  ...