{"id":5069,"date":"2021-10-02T09:42:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T09:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2021-10-02T09:42:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T09:42:47","slug":"kate-wilson-case-the-metropolitan-police-is-beyond-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/5069","title":{"rendered":"Kate Wilson Case : &#8216;The Metropolitan Police is beyond redemption&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Environmental activist Kate Wilson tells Sky&#8217;s Sarah-Jane Mee about winning a landmark tribunal against the Metropolitan Police for human rights breaches, after she was deceived into a relationship with an undercover officer. Ms Wilson was involved with a man she knew as &#8216;Mark Stone&#8217; for almost two years, but years later found out that he was actually a married police officer called Mark Kennedy, who&#8217;d been sent to spy on environmental activists. She says the Metropolitan Police are &#8216;beyond redemption&#8217; after a series of investigations into the force found it was institutionally racist and corrupt and there needs to be a rethinking of its powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;The Metropolitan Police is beyond redemption&#039;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h7aJwnd2b48?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental activist Kate Wilson tells Sky&#8217;s Sarah-Jane Mee about winning a landmark tribunal against the Metropolitan Police for human rights breaches, after she was deceived into a relationship with an undercover officer. Ms Wilson was involved with a man she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/5069\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[409,833,95,382,841],"class_list":["post-5069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-kate","tag-kennedy","tag-police","tag-undercover","tag-wilson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5070,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions\/5070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}