'Ends did not justify the means' finds interim report into covert policing

An interim report from the Undercover Policing Inquiry has established that had the methods used by the Special Demonstration Squad been known earlier it would have been shut down.

The actions of the Met’s Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) were not justified and only three of the groups it spied on were legitimate targets, an interim report from the Undercover Policing Inquiry has found.  The Met has said that the...