Host of @spycopsinfo podcast, regular updates on #spycops & coverage of the Undercover Policing Inquiry. Support my work: https://xitter.cf/t.co/LxCrkkgECA

Newport, Wales
Joined March 2010
Another intense day at the #spycops inquiry. The last one for a while, but there’s a lot to be done dissecting and understanding all the things that have been revealed. If you want to support my work you can do so at ko-fi.com/tombfowler
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It was HN56 "Alan Nicholson's" evidence (one of the few to have targeted the BNP) to the inquiry that stated the BNP weren't subversive, and that he thought one of his colleagues photographed in a BNP magazine was 'childish': "I didn't think it was political" #spycops
Fascists or plain clothes cops? Is there a meaningful distinction to be made?
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Andy Coles' #spycops past was exposed by his brother @RevRichardCole9 -also infamous for dishonesty, in his case pretending to be HIV positive- who has since sought to make light of this state-sanctioned rape, using it as a jokey anecdote for #TheLastLeg viewers.
#spycops Watch disgraced former undercover Andy Coles struggle to convince anyone that he is not lying - multiple people have come forward to give evidence about his sex-pest behaviour and the way he abused the human rights of then-teenage @Jessica_me2 bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
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Congratulations #spycops inquiry on releasing transcripts of lyin', spyin' UCO HN15 Mark Jenner telling porky pies a mere 308 days and 306 days after it happened! Never did a whitewash feel so cynically manipulated! 🎉🥳🍾 ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploa… ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploa…
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This Wednesday sees the launch of a new #spycops documentary on iPlayer, which follows my friend Jessica on her long fight for the truth about undercover cop, Tory councillor and sex pest, Andy Coles (who was outed by his brother Reverend Richard Coles) share.google/05fb8wY3yZPdJfz…
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Some backroom pressure seems to be influencing Labour MPs responses to constituent concerns about what increasingly looks like an attempted state cover-up watering down or shutting down the #spycops inquiry. Has your MP been whipped into submission? See ucpi.uk
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Coles wrote the Tradecraft Manual, a how-to guide for members of the Met's grooming gang #spycops
‘"The MPS has accepted that Andrew Coles had a sexual relationship with Jessica," wrote the force's commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, "and is disappointed he did not tell the truth to the inquiry." Coles is also accused of appearing to advise colleagues to have similar relationships.’
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The closer #spycops inq gets to present, the harder it will be to cosy-wash as thing of past. Mainstream doc on individual victims >”bad cops making mistakes, but!! democracy robust enough to hold power to account” Opportunity for state to study past vulnerabilities/wash CHIS
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Another MP signed in support of #spycops survivors yesterday. Has yours? Check, using our useful tool: ucpi.uk/consultation/edm811.…
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#spycops Watch disgraced former undercover Andy Coles struggle to convince anyone that he is not lying - multiple people have come forward to give evidence about his sex-pest behaviour and the way he abused the human rights of then-teenage @Jessica_me2 bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
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Then the SDS took over spying on left-wing MPs from 1968 and reported back to MI5. Political policing indeed. #spycops
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Replying to @copscampaign
@copscampaign are right. Accepting an officer’s criminality, but aggressively fighting a civil liability claim from a survivor, is exactly the sort of callous arse covering the Met is a world expert in. Same dynamic with the SDS and NPOIU. #spycops
Having seen how the Met's treatment of the @out_of_lives women has in many ways compounded the trauma they've suffered (due to the #spycops grooming gangs' sexual abuses) it comes as no surprise to hear that they've been similarly insensitive in this case: theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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It's interesting to note that they're STILL writing back to concerned constituents now to say that the Govt plans to announce the outcome of the consultation in "autumn 2026". Doesn't autumn end soon? At the very latest, does this mean we'll hear by the end of November? #spycops
Some backroom pressure seems to be influencing Labour MPs responses to constituent concerns about what increasingly looks like an attempted state cover-up watering down or shutting down the #spycops inquiry. Has your MP been whipped into submission? See ucpi.uk
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Rajiv Menon is one of the many brilliant and principled lawyers who have represented #spycops survivors over the years, and continue to defend those taking action now to make the world a better place. We stand in solidarity with him.
‘The attack on Rajiv Menon is an attack on us all’: 140 lawyers, trade unionists & campaigners met in London to support the barrister who faces up to two years in prison over his closing speech in trial of six Palestine Action protesters. Photo: Jess Hurd thejusticegap.com/the-attack…
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It's not just Bob Lambert, who we agree should have been stripped of his MBE years ago. There's also Trevor Charles Butler OBE, aka 'HN307' (deployed in the 1970s; still utterly unrepentant in 2022 for the way the #spycops abused their powers) campaignopposingpolicesurvei…
Replying to @AlastairMorgan
What about spycop Bob Lambert?
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Having seen how the Met's treatment of the @out_of_lives women has in many ways compounded the trauma they've suffered (due to the #spycops grooming gangs' sexual abuses) it comes as no surprise to hear that they've been similarly insensitive in this case: theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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Even his former employers, the @metpoliceuk, accept that sex pest Tory Andy Coles entered into a deceitful sexual relationship with a much younger activist, @Jessica_me2, during his #spycops deployment. He is still denying it, despite multiple witnesses. bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
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the inquiry’s final recommendations will result in a harmless, inward-facing bureaucratic cleanup: massive public campaign to ensure "this never happens again” 🤷‍♀️
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Was there thoracentesis for fluid in the lung as protocol? Was there fit to fly note? Why admitted on oral antibiotics not intravenous, why only 3 days? discharge with pneumonia =serious atmospheric pressure risks Jenner well enough to write claim day after return? #spycops
We are shown a detailed chronology of the trip to Israel written by Alison about the 'Holiday From Hell' with Mark Jenner. It was cut short because of his sickness. They were there for 12 days. #spycops
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This scandal is nowhere near bug enough #spycops
In the 11 years of the @ucpinquiry there’s only been limited parliamentary support for those spied on, with some notable exceptions. Many MPs were themselves spied on by #spycops. The first black MP @BGTrust, along with the first black female MP, @HackneyAbbott, were repeatedly reported on by undercover officers for supporting family justice campaigns and people organising for police accountability. @jeremycorbyn has been one of the most reported on MPs due to his support for peace, trade union and socialist causes. @PeterHain was a prominent anti apartheid campaigner with the Stop the 70 Tour - running on to stop cricket matches taking place, and they did the same thing with the British and Irish Lions Tour of 1972. Blocking the team from leaving the Star and Garter hotel in a protest that included an undercover police officer. Whilst Welsh Secretary, father of the House of Commons and part of Tony Blair cabinet after he voted for the Iraq war, Peter Hain attended a Christmas party at the parents of spied on activist @fruitbatmania who was being deceived into a relationship by undercover police officer officer Mark Kennedy, in Kennedy's report, he referred to Hain as a ‘South African terrorist’. It just shows however senior a position, if you ever dare to threaten power structures, you will continue to be targeted. This is a video of me speaking at @GGcampaigns earlier this summer, more videos to follow
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