• ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.id
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    10 months ago

    Mary’s family, who live in an area in which relations with police have been fraught for many years, are concerned that members of their community may learn about the relationship and wrongly conclude that she knowingly collaborated with police.

    Also known as a “pig fucker”.

    You get labelled with that round 'ere and things are never the same again. Horrible stigma.

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    10 months ago

    The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating senior officers at Avon and Somerset police, who knew about the undercover officer’s relationship with the woman as far back as 2013.

    They appear to have waited at least seven years before informing the woman that the person she knew as her fiance had been using a fake identity given to him for use in covert police operations.

    What the fuck.

    What was he even investigating that he stayed undercover for two decades?

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    10 months ago

    I think the headlines a little sensational. Undercover cop gets into a real committed relationship for 19 years and when they’re about to get married reveals he’s been an undercover cop. Hilarity ensues. The relationship seems genuine

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      10 months ago

      "This whole thing has broken her,” Mary’s sister said. “She has expressed suicidal thoughts. She cries daily. She does not sleep. She is really fearful.”

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      10 months ago

      Surely lying to your partner for 19 years is fine. The relationship is actually extra healthy, because of all the practice lying.