Mark Kennedy posed for seven years as a committed environmental activist. Photograph: Philipp Ebeling Mark Kennedy miscarriage of justice inquiry blames prosecutors and police Failure to give undercover policeman’s secret recordings to defence lawyers led to wrongful prosecution of environmentalists The first major inquiry into the Mark Kennedy controversy has ruled that both senior prosecutors and police officers [...]
Undercover police officer Mark Kennedy was ‘involved in activities that went much further than the authorisation he was given’, the appeal court judges ruled Three senior judges have ruled that the undercover police officer Mark Kennedy unlawfully spied on protesters and arguably acted as an “agent provocateur”. In a damning ruling explaining why they quashed the convictions [...]
Mark Kennedy case: CPS accused of suppressing key evidence CPS opens inquiry after claims prosecutors withheld undercover police officer’s surveillance tapes from defence lawyers Share115 Rob Evans and Paul Lewis guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 7 June 2011 20.44 BST Article history Former police officer Mark Kennedy working undercover with environmental activists. Photograph: Guardian Prosecutors have been accused [...]
Britain’s Private Militias Posted: 19 Apr 2011 08:54 AM PDT The Ratcliffe miscarriage of justice shows that we need a sweeping reform of the police. By George Monbiot. Published on the Guardian’s website, 19th April 2011. Here, so far, are the results of the undercover surveillance operation the police conducted against a group of climate [...]
In an interesting move those convicted over some protests in the UK have been invited to appeal by the DPP. George Ikners ikners.com a WordPress site DPP urges convicted power station protesters to appeal Keir Starmer says 20 people found guilty of trespass should take case back to court over involvement of undercover police officer [...]
