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ANDREA, who was deceived into a sexual relationship with an undercover police officer, explains why the Mitting inquiry is far from fair, impartial and meaningful
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ON INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day 2019, the inquiry into undercover policing has another year under its belt.
Last year, I wrote of my growing frustration at the lack of impartiality of the chair, Sir John Mitting, and of his seemingly unfettered belief in what the police choose to tell him.
Yes, that’s the same Metropolitan Police Force whose officers spied on the Stephen Lawrence family, which was responsible for stealing dead children’s identities, which colluded in the illegal blacklisting of thousands of construction workers and which was allowed to deceptively enter long-term intimate relationships with women who believed them to be activists. Highly trained liars, yet Mitting accepts their false word at face value.
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