Legal case against Metropolitan police claims managers allowed undercover officer to continue deception

An environmental activist who was deceived into a long-term sexual relationship by an undercover police officer has told a court that several managers and his colleagues knew about the deception and allowed it to carry on.

Kate Wilson, whose relationship with Mark Kennedy lasted for more than a year, opened her legal case against the Metropolitan police on Tuesday after spending more than a decade seeking to uncover the truth.

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