'Serious questions' about after green trial collapse

[Joanne98]

Source: BBC

The trial of six green campaigners has collapsed after an undercover policeman who had infiltrated their group offered to give evidence on their behalf.

The six were charged with conspiring to shut down the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottingham in 2009.

The case was due to start on Monday, but was abandoned after Pc Mark Kennedy contacted the defence team to say he would be prepared to help them.

The prosecution subsequently dropped their case.



Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12149700

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1. ...

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[muriel_volestrangler]

2. (UK) Environmental activists demand inquiry into undercover officer's role

Source: The Guardian

Following the collapse of their trial, power station protesters say PC Mark Kennedy's actions must be investigated

Six environmental activists who faced charges of trying to take over a power station called today for an inquiry into the role of an undercover police officer, who is accused of helping to plan and pay for the invasion.

The trial of the six, who denied conspiring to break into Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, collapsed today, after details began to emerge about the role played by PC Mark Kennedy, an undercover police officer.

An investigation by the Guardian revealed how Kennedy lived at the heart of the environmental movement for seven years, using the fake identity Mark Stone to infiltrate dozens of protest groups.
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Speaking after the hearing, their solicitor Mike Schwarz, confirmed Kennedy offered to assist the defence during the trial, saying he believed the police officer turned "native" after being convinced of the arguments of climate change.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/10/environmental-activists-inquiry-undercover-officer

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What a tangled web. Accusations of being an agent provocateur, and that the same man 'turned native'. And undercover for at least 7 years in environmentalist groups? Haven't they, as they say, got real criminals to catch?

[xchrom]

3. this warms the cockles of my heart.

turned native, indeed.

[Ghost Dog]

4. Oh no. They don't like them wot 'as gone native

sticking it up 'em.

Nice.

[bananas]

5. Activist says she feels 'violated' by sexual relationship with man unmasked as undercover officer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/11/activist-undercover-officer-violated-relationship

Calls for inquiry into conduct of undercover police officer
Activist says she feels 'violated' by sexual relationship with man unmasked as undercover officer
• Spying: undercover officer tales revealed

* Paul Lewis, Rob Evans and Vikram Dodd
* guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 11 January 2011 21.30 GMT

Mark Kennedy Mark Kennedy is said to have had sexual relations with activists while under cover.

Scotland Yard was under pressure tonight to explain whether it had authorised an undercover officer to have sexual relationships with environmental activists after a woman came forward to say she felt violated following a close relationship with the man unmasked this week as a police spy.

The woman told the Guardian that Mark Kennedy, the Metropolitan police officer at the centre of a growing controversy over the infiltration of peaceful environmental protest groups, had relationships with several women and may have used sex as a tactic to glean intelligence.

"He had so many friends and relationships with people in the movement that I'm questioning whether this was a tactic – or part of his task – to become more trusted or respected within the scene," she said today. "In a general sense, there is the feeling that if somebody was being paid to have sex with me, that gives me a sense of having been violated."

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