17 Jul, 2013
Met chief sorry for police spies using dead children’s identities – guardian.co.uk
Britain’s most senior police officer has offered a general apology for the “morally repugnant” theft of dead children’s identities by undercover spies who infiltrated political groups.
But Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan police commissioner, has refused to tell any families if the identities of their children were stolen by the undercover officers. He said he wanted to protect the spies from being exposed.
In a report published on Tuesday, he admitted that at least 42 police spies stole the identity of children who had died before they were 14 years old. But the total number of such spies could be far higher as he conceded that the technique could have been more widespread than initially believed.
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