Undercover policing enquiry

[Lurdan]

Evidence this morning from AJF who was involved in the South London anarchist scene and went hunt sabbing with what has been described in previous evidence as the 'fearsome' Brixton Hunt Sabs, as well as anti-fascist activities. No public livestream so the only account is the live xtweeting by COPs campaign and Tom Fowler. Transcriptions at those links.

Interesting session I thought.

The redacted transcript of 'Jessica''s evidence yesterday is now up here (PDF)

No sign yet of the transcript of Bob Lambert's last day on Tuesday.

Inquiry back next Wednesday 18th with the first of three scheduled days from the man the Islington Gazette has called ''Creepy letch' undercover cop', Andy Coles.

 

[Lurdan]

Ahead of tomorrows scheduled sessions with spycop Andy Coles here's a quick catch up xtweet thread by the @sackandycoles account archived as a webpage

And here's an older 2020 thread from them with more details archived as a webpage

And if that's just wetted your appetite here is their website

 

[DaveCinzano]

 

[DaveCinzano]

COPS Primer:

Undercover Policing Inquiry – Andy Coles Primer

As spycop Andy Coles prepares to face the public inquiry, a rundown of his undercover career's outrages and his lies since then

campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com

 

[DaveCinzano]

Slight schedule rejig to give Jessica time for a brief addition to her evidence before Shithead starts:

 

[Lurdan]

Transcript of yesterday's session with Andy Coles is up here (PDF) Includes the evidence of 'Jessica' at the end of the day when the livestream cut off.

ETA:

COPS @copscampaign
You can play along at home, with our new #spycops bingo card...
9:34 AM · Dec 19, 2024

 

[DaveCinzano]

Inquiry Bingo - Coles Edition



Via COPS

 

[DaveCinzano]

Coles wriggling around in all sorts of trouble of his own making today.

Mitting has basically cut his third day of evidence scheduled for tomorrow because, well, what's the point? He's obviously lying!

Barr picked apart pretty much everything he said, and even Mitting practically vaulted over the table to add some hefty kicks of his own.

Clearly no one at the Inquiry believes Coles when he says he never had sex; Barr introduced statements from Boyling and Jenner (two of the biggest bastards in the whole shitshow) that properly dropped Coles in it, saying that he had told each of them that they would have to have sex with targets on their deployments.

But Coles has been told he'll have to reappear in the final Tranche to give evidence in the NPOIU section - he managed to drop himself in it by admitting he had a hand in their training programme.

Oh, and it turns out Coles worked as a uniformed copper out of Stoke Newington nick in the 1980s, knew about corruption in the station, and was even on duty the night of Trevor Monerville's horrific beating in 1987... Possibly we will return to some of this.

At the end of the session, Barr basically told him he should feel ashamed. Coles' response appeared to be “I have no shame”!

 

[ska invita]

Never trust a vicar

I'm A Celeb's Richard Coles’ brother questioned on alleged relationship

The public inquiry was told that Andy formed a sexual relationship with a teenage activist.

metro.co.uk

What a family!

 

[GarveyLives]

The testimony of evidence of Andy Coles, who went on to become Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner for Cambridgeshire and is the current president of the Peterborough Conservatives, also received coverage in the local media in Hackney:

'Creepy letch' undercover cop 'had sex with 19-year-old he was spying on'

 

[Red About Town]

Binging on the Undercover podcast from the BBC this week. I've read loads of these stories through the years but when you hear from the people impacted, it is heart breaking. Lives ruined. And I reckon we only know tip of the iceberg info.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Binging on the Undercover podcast from the BBC this week. I've read loads of these stories through the years but when you hear from the people impacted, it is heart breaking. Lives ruined. And I reckon we only know tip of the iceberg info.

There are (by my calculations, so give or take a toe here and there) 260 police nominals in the Inquiry.

Some are senior Met figures (like Commissioners, DACs), more are Special Branch top brass (Commander, Chief Superintendent), but overwhelmingly most are actual meat-and-potato spycops - whether undercover officers themselves or the cover officers, back room staff and managers who provisioned and tasked them.

Up to 190 are SDS, 36 are NPOIU, 4 are categorised across the both. By my last count 47 were dead.

 

[Lurdan]

By my last count 47 were dead.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Next Tranche will have to be contracted out to Mario