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I’M old enough to remember seeing the BBC’s Wednesday Play of November 16, 1966. It was entitled Cathy Come Home and was by a writer called…

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 Undercover officer Richard Clark spied on the Troops Out Movement (TOM), a campaign calling for British soldiers to be withdrawn from Northern Ireland, and quickly rose through the ranks.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 ...

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 S...

Met Police used dead children's identities to infiltrate protest groups “Abhorrent” and "callous" practice continued for around 20 years and was "embedded"' in secretive unit (Image: Daily Post) Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice A secretive Metropolitan Poli...

The mammoth Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) started on Wednesday It will look into at the activities of the Met's Special Demonstration Squad (SDS)  For around 20 years, the practice of using dead children's identities became embedded in a secret police unit, Heather Williams QC said at inquiry on Friday She said relatives who had seen the 'callous misuse of their loved ones' identities' wanted to know if the abuse was necessary, or served a purpose