Movement for Justice was targeted more for its relationship to Duwayne Brooks than to the Lawrence family direct. Brooks has talked about MfJ being the only group he felt truly supported by throughout everything (including the time when he was banged up on remand for something unrelated).
(From very early on a number of groups came forward to offer their support to the Lawrence family, notably GACARA, the Labour-connected ARA (before Marc Wadsworth and Ken Livingstone fell out), and (SWP-affiliated) Panther UK. However, the Lawrences settled on support and gatekeeping from the lawyer Imran Khan, who offered his services within days.)
Bear in mind MfJ was fairly high profile amongst the smaller groupuscules on immigration and asylum issues at the time - the 1995 paint/flour attack on Mawhinney etc. It was also very vocal in the public phase of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry - presenting submissions at the Tower Hamlets session. Of course, Hagan was not the Met's first bite of the cherry: Peter Francis was the original infiltrator aimed at MfJ and its associated cadres (KAF, RIL etc), before being shunted on to SPEW/YRE. It was during this period that spurious stories were planted in the press about students connected with this milieu being recruited by Irish Republicans for bomb-planting missions(!)
The use of an infiltrator within MfJ came at a time when the Met wanted to know about submissions that would be presented to Macpherson before his panel presented its findings - that is what the meeting between Hagan and Richard Walton, hosted by Bob Lambert at his own home - was about.
It should also be noted that (sanitised) intelligence from Hagan about MfJ activists' intentions at various protests and public events (besides the Lawrence Inquiry) was likely passed on to local police chiefs - such as Br*an P*dd*ck, formerly of this parish, who was Borough Commander of Lambeth from late 2000 until late 2002.
Older readers may recall the rather heated debate on here which originally attracted The Commander to start posting his ‘hey guys I might be a cop but I'm just like you guys’ screeds that eventually attracted the interest of the papers... It was about violent police actions at a Movement for Justice march “in protest at the murders of 4 people by police in Brixton in the last few months” which wended its way from Brixton Town Hall to Brixton nick in December 2001. It was the second high profile MfJ event in Brixton in six months. Subsequent to the enthusiastically policed winter event, there was to be no big third such event in the area.
It being a funny old world, P*dd*ck later became a Lib Dem hack, and mentored Duwayne Brooks who was himself elected as a Lib Dem local councillor in 2009. Duwayne Brooks then worked on P*dd*ck's 2012 London Mayoral campaign team.
P*dd*ck doesn't like talking about this stuff. “It’s between me and Duwayne,” he says. “I have worked with Duwayne to try to get to the truth about what happened. I am not going to jeopardise that work by making public statements to satisfy you. Duwayne is a friend of mine. I don’t know you.”
Guess that's alright then.