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AVT026 - VID134 Matt Prodger on acknowledgement by Met Police that Lambert & Boyling were undercover officers, BBC News At One, BBC1, 15 August 2014. ▪ Programme page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04d4dv3/bbc-news-atone-15082014 ▪ Video source: http://youtu.be/QC83HKQ5O2M Speakers: JH = Jane Hills MP = Matt Prodger HW = Harriet Wistrich HS = Helen Steel === JH: BBC News has learnt that for the first time the Metropolitan Police has confirmed the identity of two undercover officers. Both men are accused of deceiving women by having relationships with them without disclosing their true identity. The Met, which is being sued by the women, denies authorising the relationships. It says they were based on “genuine feelings”. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Matt Prodger reports. MP: They were members of a police unit so secret they’re accused of deceiving activists into sexual relationships and even fathered children with them. Jim Boyling later married and had two children with one of three women he was involved with. Bob Lambert had sexual relationships with three women from environmental and animal rights groups, and a child with a fourth. Years later he was exposed and challenged by the activists he’d infiltrated while he was a member of the undercover Special Demonstration Squad. A court order’s forced the Met to confirm the two men’s identities. The Force has also offered a defence: “The relationships occurred because of mutual attraction and genuine personal feelings,” it said, and “it is denied that intimate and sexual relationships were started as a deliberate tactic.” HS: There was nothing genuine about it. You know, the entire relationship was based on a massive web of lies. They had all the power, and that’s not love, that’s abuse. MP: Helen Steel is an environmentalist, who says she was psychologically scarred after she was fooled into a two year relationship with another undercover officer.


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