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Spycops victim awarded compensation after wining landmark case against Met Police
Demonstrators outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London, where an Investigatory Powers Tribunal is hearing the case of Kate Wilson (right) who was deceived into a relationship by undercover police officer Mark Kennedy, in October 2014

AN ENVIRONMENTAL activist deceived into a two-year relationship with an undercover officer was awarded significant compensation today after winning a landmark case against the Metropolitan Police.

Kate Wilson began a relationship with Mark Stone, whose real name is Mark Kennedy, in 2003 before they split up in 2005.

In 2010, she discovered that he was a married police officer who had been sent to spy on activists as part of the police force’s national public order intelligence unit (NPOIU).

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