This is Richard Walton, the Special Branch Officer who helped draw up the Met Police response to the McPherson inquiry. Today he was questioned at #spycops inquiry about his meeting with an undercover officer who spied on campaigns linked to the Stephen Lawrence family campaign.
It's a word that's lost meaning, become a cliché, but there should at least be an attempt to hold the fact that the #spycops are the literal dregs of society, and any government that looks to derail an admittedly imperfect process is not one degree better
Fucking outrageous. John Dines CONNED £millions of taxpayer £ from the @metpoliceuk and who the fuck was overseeing it? More of the fucking abusers, protecting themselves and the RAPE GANG of #spycops Where is the criminal investigation into all the FRAUD #CriminalGang#Grooming
It just shows how engaged she has been with the inquiry that she knows the ref number of the exact document. She has had many thousands of pages of documents, not chronically ordered and out of sequence. The inquiry has treated her appallingly #Spycops#ShouldBeAshamed
Was he just that stupid to give his real details to arguably one of the most determined and smart activists of the time? Or was he secretly hoping she'd fine him? It was just a mind fuck by a cruel coward #Spycops#CowardJohnDines#Scum
Even more obscene that @ucpi is letting him get away without giving evidence. They could section 21 him like they are doing HN86. Have some fucking backbone, like Helen has #Spycops#UtterCowardice#GettingAwayWithIt
I wonder if coward John dines had any shame at all that he bought his won mother into his deception and cruelty. If I was his mother I'd disown him out of shame and disgrace #CowardJohnDines He should be made to give evidence to this inquiry #Section21#Spycops#UtterBastard
The file note also misrepresents the nature of John Dines #spycops deployment. He was reporting on a wide range of subjects, he wasn't infiltrating the ALF, he admitted he couldn't get anywhere near them
Stephen Lawrence's father: Don't let 'cover-up' cop off the hook https://t.co/3Gsfry6Clu Apologies for daily fail but if you see this you are on twitter, so bar is already low 😜#Spycops#RichardWalton#Dick
Helen Steel wonders if because John Dines was Andy Coles mentor, that he advised him about 'fleeting and disastrous relationships' which ended up in the tradecraft manual after the experience of deceiving her #spycops
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My article on @counterfireorg website on the shocking announcement by the Home Office to consult on the future of the #spycops inquiry. Please follow @copscampaign@out_of_lives for further details going forward
@tombfowler I still believe him. I don't feel the need to swear and have very little in scathing remarks to throw at him. He's made me redundant #Spycops
Barr is having to interrupt Paul Condon and bring him back to the point of the questions repeatedly. Condon claims that modern day values are being used to judge a different time. #spycops
@tombfowler I'm not taking in anything that he's saying because he's just talking for the sake of talking. Why the fuck is he having hourly breaks? He can clearly talk non-stop for 14 fucking hours #Spycops#MakeHimStop
Paul Condon says that Peter Clark was one of this staff officers was the person who was briefing him on the Stephen Lawrence case. This would have been weeks into the investigation, on it's progress #spycops