Kate Wilson won a legal battle against the Metropolitan Police after discovering her long-term boyfriend was an undercover officer
holy shit its british Point Break
(no surfing of course because england)
How I discovered my partner was an undercover police officer sent to spy on me
Submitted 10 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/kate-wilson-spycops-hay-festival-b2756981.html
Comments
ianfraserkrillmaster@midwest.social 10 months ago
Numenor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Check out Cornwall
ianfraserkrillmaster@midwest.social 10 months ago
i’ll surf with a pasty any time
iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
“It is important to note that since Mark Kennedy’s deployment there has been enormous change in undercover policing, both in the Met and nationally, and I want to be clear that this case in no way reflects modern-day undercover policing.”
Press X to doubt.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I had a deadbeat housemate once who claimed to have been visited by two special branch cops who offered to arrange him a sexual partner in return for spying on the local anti-war group he was in. This seemed ludicrous at the time, as the group would gather outside the town hall in small numbers and sing “No Blood For Oil” all in different keys, but in the light of this story (which had been known for quite a while now) it absolutely tracks with the tactics it turned out they’d been using.
Brutticus@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I mean like… how do you even react to when the cops offer to pimp for you?
shaquilleoatmeal@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Incels just need to pretend to be leftists and then they’ll get their government mandated GF.
echodot@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Have you seen them try and talk to women it’s embarrassing. They usually last about 15 minutes and then they call somebody “female”, or something and they can’t work out what went wrong.
They would be amusingly crap spies. You could probably keep them in your midst and just talk coded language, and they probably wouldn’t pick up on it.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 10 months ago
All I need to do is join a bunch of leftist organizations and the state will assign me a sexual partner?
Incels hate this one simple trick!
hatsa122@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Happens a lot in Spain.
There has been a lot cases of police officers infiltrating left and social movements, male and female, and “failing in love” with people inside them. Just from the tip of my head, there is a case of female cop that was caught by her partner after 4 years of relationship and before getting married. Another one where a male cop infiltrated different associations and literally fucked his way up to the intel, tricking women and having them have (consent) sex with him. This one his awaiting trial because after finding out the girls sued him for sexual abuse, but i dont think i will go anywhere.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
You cannot obtain consent by deceit. That’s rape.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Speaking only about the legal sense here, most places do not recognize that. If you are of sound mind and body, not under the influence of drugs, extortion, etc, then the consent is valid.
Part of the problem is that everyone is at least a little deceitful, and these have been used in courts to claim rape. I remember a case about the use of makeup (deceiving about her actual looks and genetics), and another about being the “wrong” ethnicity. Where is the line for the courts to be involved?
Rumbelows@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Believe it or not, Mark Kennedy is my brother in law.
He’s a bit full of himself, and it’s weird when this comes up in the news cycle.
He wrote a book about his experiences, but it wasn’t taken up with the publisher because he essentially didn’t express regret.
Tweak@feddit.uk 10 months ago
He should have been charged. The fact that none of the legal avenues have involved him is obscene.
Rumbelows@lemmy.world 10 months ago
He is still under investigation… He had to give evidence again a few months ago
courval@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wtf is this? The British version of Gestapo’s joy division? Fucking disgusting. Intelligence agencies shouldn’t exist outside war scenarios or valid EXTERNAL threats to democracy.
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Most countries have intelligence agencies for internal threats. How would you detect and prevent terrorist attacks without them?
Aux@feddit.uk 10 months ago
You see, that’s the difference between US and UK - the so called “Gestapo’s joy division” stops a lot of extremist plots. That’s why you have Trump and we don’t.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 10 months ago
7/7 was committed by an internal threat. As was the Manchester Arena bombing, the assassinations of Jo Cox and David Amess and attempted assassination of Stephen Timms, the Streatham stabbings, the London Bridge attacks in 2017 and 2019, the Westminster car attack, Finsbury Park attack, 2017 Westminster attack, murder and attempted beheading of Lee Rigby, Glasgow Airport attack, London nail bombings……
But sure, we don’t need internal intelligence agencies at all.
owl@infosec.pub 10 months ago
This is awful, but I wonder what I technically illegal about it. It a misleading manipulative lie, but it’s not illegal to lie about personal topics, I don’t think.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
The legal battle was a civil suit, based more on the violations of Kate Wilson’s human rights, than on the legality of actions
owl@infosec.pub 10 months ago
That makes sense, I agree with that.
Genius@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
It’s fucking rape.
Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 10 months ago
No it isn’t.
owl@infosec.pub 10 months ago
If a woman has sex with me (hypothetically) because she saw me wearing expensive clothes, but later it turns out they were cheap imitations, that would be misleading, but not rape.
Valmond@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As horrible this is (as owl said) how do you figure out it is rape?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 months ago
That’s truly awful, ACAB.
However, I do want to let any of our new glowies know I personally give prior consent to be honeypotted by cuties who buy me nice things.
atlas@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
might wanna look up what “glowie” means and how it started buddy. it’s not something you wanna be throwing around
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 10 months ago
I prefer the term ‘fed’
That being said, hello feds! Welcome to .world!
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Looked it up… idk this doesn’t feel like a problem? Yeah, the related term is absolutely a problem, but this seems like a sanitized version that’s meant to portray the same core meaning without the racial slur?
I could very well be wrong of course, I don’t have much more context than an extremely quick search so please correct me if I’m wrong.
squid_slime@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’m in a few local orgs and this is fucking nightmare fuel!
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I scrolled on All/Top-6-Hours and I see this horror story on my front page.
Are we gonna play Among Us IRL now?
Are my parents even real? Or just government agents? 🤔
KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
This makes me feel sick
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s been years since I saw a burning cop car, I’m fucking irritated
Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 10 months ago
One of my favorite memories is a comrade being interviewed during the LA Watt’s Rebellion. A TV reporter asked him why they were burning police cars. His reply, “Because it’s fun!”
hedhoncho@lemm.ee 10 months ago
This is one of my fears. I can’t imagine the betrayal and lack of ethics. I can’t imagine a person who would sell their souls to date someone they hate like this. Just thinking about it ugh! I’m in a community with a bunch of degenerates and sometimes I’ve dated guys who just seem to be lying through their teeth that they like me. I stopped frequenting their bars. Doesn’t help when the photographer at events is an undercover cop. I’m not the one in biker gangs but I stopped going because of all the fake suspicion. Still I’d need soooooo much therapy. I hope she got a huuuuge settlement.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“This is one of my fears”
I’m so sorry that this is actually a concern that someone legitimately feels. It’s unbelievable to me that anyone could date someone they don’t like, for whatever reason…
sends hug
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Maybe not as huge as it should be but
In 2021, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ordered the Met Police and NPCC to pay a total of £229,471 to Ms Wilson “by way of just satisfaction for the breaches of her human rights”
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
I hope a sincere apology was included in that as well.
nomy@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Not nearly enough.
Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If they slept together he raped her with government backing
grue@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Kennedy, who resigned from the Met in 2010, had sexual relationships with as many as 10 other women while undercover.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I remember that happening in Orphan Black. But she stayed married to Donnie and he just became part of the clone gang.
breakingcups@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Weren’t they already together when they approached Donnie, and he thought it was part of a study he couldn’t tell her about? I think it was Paul who was fully in the know about what he was doing to Beth Childs.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Maybe you might have it there
hansolo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
What in the Pyong Yang?
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
hansolo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It was more a comment on analog regimes that inspire household level paranoia.
What I had really wanted to say was “What in the Enver Hoxha?” But I expected that reference to Europe’s most North Korean-style regime to miss.
Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 10 months ago
If this sort of thing happened in Korea we’d be hearing of it every day for years. Unfortunately this is a UK/US Phenomenon.
LordGimp@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Less than £300k for a year of repeated rape by fraud? And no charges for the officer? Sounds like imperialism to me.