Police accused of allowing undercover officers to lie in court

[dipsydoodle]

Source: The Guardian

Police chiefs are facing damaging allegations that they authorised undercover officers embedded in protest groups to give false evidence in court in order to protect their undercover status.

Documents seen by the Guardian suggest that an undercover officer concealed his true identity from a court when he was prosecuted alongside a group of protesters for occupying a government office during a demonstration.

From the moment he was arrested, he gave a false name and occupation, maintaining this fiction throughout the entire prosecution, even when he gave evidence under oath to barristers. The officer, Jim Boyling, and his police handlers never revealed to the activists who stood alongside him in court that he was actually an undercover policeman who had penetrated their campaign months earlier under a fake identity.

Boyling was undercover, using the name Jim Sutton, between 1995 and 2000 in the campaign Reclaim the Streets, which organised colourful, nonviolent demonstrations against the overuse of cars, such as blocking roads and holding street parties.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/19/police-undercover-officers-court-perjury-claim

[Hepburn]

1. Whadda shock...

...not.

This has gone on for as long as I remember...especially the Febbies.

[truebrit71]

2. I am also overcome with shock at hearing this...

...:sarcasm:

[Shadowflash]

3. The sad part is....

That it took a foreign news organization to bring this up. The US 'news' companies are worthless.

[truthisfreedom]

4. It happened in a foreign country.

[AngryAmish]

5. damn foreigners

[dipsydoodle]

6. Undercover policing report delayed by new allegations

A report into undercover policing has been delayed after a BBC investigation uncovered claims an officer underwent trial using his operational alias.

A lawyer told BBC Newsnight that Met Police Det Con Jim Boyling's conduct called into question the conviction of an activist whose group he infiltrated.

HM Inspectorate of Constabulary has delayed the publication of its report to consider the new information.

Its inquiry was prompted by earlier complaints about officer conduct.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15379882

[24601]

7. Slander - I can't believe Bill Clinton allowed this! After all - he had

the reputation that his word was coin of the realm.