Spycops whistleblower says bosses stopped him revealing surveillance of Stephen Lawrence family
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Whistleblower Peter Francis testified to the ongoing "spycops" inquiry that senior police officers prevented him from revealing the covert surveillance of the Stephen Lawrence family to the Macpherson inquiry in the late 1990s. Francis, an undercover officer in the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), stated that monitoring the Lawrence campaign was a top priority and he was instructed to gather information to undermine their efforts to investigate the racist murder of their son in 1993. The Macpherson inquiry examined the Metropolitan Police's handling of the case, ultimately finding institutional racism and incompetence. The Lawrence family was unaware of the surveillance for over 15 years, and the Met has since apologized. The current "spycops" inquiry, established in 2014, is investigating the conduct of undercover officers who spied on political activists from 1968 to at least 2010.
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