Undercover officers’ sexual relationships encouraged or tolerated, tribunal told
By Press Association 2021
“…. In 2003, the NPIOU sent Kennedy to infiltrate the Sumac Centre, a community centre in Nottingham, which it said was “used by persons involved in extremism relating to animal rights, environmentalism, anarchy, anti-weapons and war issues and anti-globalisation”, the tribunal heard.
Ms Kilroy said: “In truth, it was a community space with a vegan cafe used by a wide range of people and groups.”
Kennedy was “told to develop personal relationships in order to gather pre-emptive intelligence” on activists at the centre, with the help of “an extensive support system for the purpose of this long-term infiltration”, Ms Kilroy said.
He had “police-issued phones, laptops, passport and bank cards”, all in his false identity, and “had a police-issued van and a flat paid for by the police”, Ms Kilroy added”.
