The British police have admitted for the first time that an undercover police officer using a false identity had a sexual relationship with an environmental activist with the knowledge of his superiors, legal papers have revealed.
It is the first such admission by police chiefs, who had previously asserted that their undercover officers were not allowed to have sexual relationships with activists they were spying on under any conditions.
This stunning admission was made by the Metropolitan Police in a legal case launched by Kate Wilson, an environmental and social justice campaigner who was deceived into a two-year intimate relationship by the undercover officer, whose real name is Mark Kennedy.
Kennedy’s real identity was not revealed until he was exposed in 2010 by campaigners who found out that he had spent seven years infiltrating environmental groups.
Wilson is taking legal action against the Met and the National Police Chiefs’…