The Metropolitan Police spy who ‘met woman under fake ID and had child with her’

An inquiry into an undercover Metropolitan Police officer who infiltrated anarchist teams within the Seventies has heard that he met a woman and had a child with her, while undercover.

It seems to be the earliest identified instance of a child being born from a relationship between a woman and an undercover officer who infiltrated political teams, stories the Guardian.

At the time, the now-deceased officer was utilizing the fake identification of Jim Pickford. His actual identification can’t be revealed, to guard his second spouse and their two grownup kids’s proper to respect for personal and household life under the Human Rights Act.

‘At least 20 spies identified to have tricked girls’

When the inquiry resumed on Wednesday, QC David Barr stated that Pickford infiltrated anarchist and group teams in south London between 1974 and 1976, stories the Guardian.

Continuing, QC David Barr stated Pickford “met a woman in his undercover identification whom he went on to marry. [Pickford] and his third spouse had a child collectively. The marriage didn’t final and resulted in divorce”.

Pickford allegedly informed one other undercover officer that he needed to inform his new spouse “every little thing”.

It shouldn’t be identified whether or not Pickford went on to reveal his actual identification to her, once they obtained married or whether or not he was nonetheless within the police on the time of their marriage ceremony.

In data from the inquiry again in 2018, the officer’s household from his second marriage confirmed that he met his third spouse while deployed on the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), and that she typically referred to him as ‘Jimmy’.

The ‘gist of extra info’ says the couple had a child, and the woman moved abroad within the Nineteen Eighties and that it has not been doable to contact her. She can also be believed to have remarried.

During the general public inquiry it was stated that from the mid-Seventies onwards, it was frequent for undercover officers who infiltrated political teams to begin sexual relationships with girls.

“It can safely be stated that from the mid-Seventies onwards, sexual contact between SDS officers of their undercover identities and members of the general public was not unusual,” Barr stated.

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It was additionally claimed that officers working for the SDS joked in regards to the sexual relationships within the presence of their managers – the squad being all-male at the moment.

At least 20 police spies are identified to have tricked girls into relationships with their aliases up till 2010, with the true quantity more likely to be increased.

The Undercover Policing Inquiry was arrange in 2015 to “get to the reality” of undercover policing throughout England and Wales since 1968, following an unbiased evaluation discovering “appalling practices in undercover policing.”

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The £36 million enquiry is chaired by Sir John Mitting, a former High Court decide who was appointed in 2017.

To date, the inquiry has launched the duvet names of 69 undercover officers from the Special Demonstration Squad, who had been a covert unit that existed inside the Metropolitan Police Service between 1968 and 2008.

It is hoped that releasing the names will allow members of the general public to find out whether or not they had been affected by the undercover policing and to return ahead with proof.

The inquiry continues.

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