Victim’s family accuse Avon and Somerset police of bullying and attempting to cover up deception

An undercover police officer used his fake identity to deceive a woman into a 19-year relationship in which they became partners and had a child together, the Guardian can reveal.

The officer concealed his real identity from the woman for the duration of that period, never telling her his real occupation, and using his fictitious identity on the birth certificate of their son.

In 2020, after the couple were engaged to be married, the woman discovered that her fiance, whom she believed to be a businessman, was in fact a police officer who had subjected her to a sophisticated deception lasting almost two decades.

  • AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Are y’all fucking stupid? You’re fine with getting lied to for 19 years? About literally the most basic of information? How the fuck could you believe anything this professional liar told you?!

    This wasn’t him using his middle name or a nickname from childhood. Jesus Christ the lengths people will go to to justify the horrors of modern policing.

    • SpotEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Maybe they missed the whole part about the “used it to deceive her” shit. It’s not like while doing his job, he happened to meet the love of his life, and made it work somehow while keeping them safe with his undercover job, letting her know somehow, someway the danger they were in, without risking his identity. This fuckwad just used humans in his cosplay job to meet his ends.

    • FlowVoid@midwest.socialEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Your name is what you want people to call you. What’s on the birth certificate is irrelevant. Plenty of people introduce themselves as something not on the birth certificate. That doesn’t make them liars.