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Tonight (7.45pm AEDT, Thursday, October 23), two women, ‘Ellie’ & ‘Wendy’, are scheduled to give evidence to the UK’s Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI)<\/a>. Both were victims of a spycop named James Thomson (AKA ‘James Straven’ & ‘Kevin Crossland’). Ellie & Wendy’s abuse was detailed in December 2020 by Nick Dole in British women thought they’d found boyfriends who shared their beliefs. They were actually undercover police<\/a> (ABC, December 6, 2020):<\/p>\n

Two years ago, Queensland woman ‘Ellie’ got a call that changed her life. It was from her first love, a man named James.<\/p>\n

She had met him in 2001 when she was living in London. She was just 21 and he was 33, but that didn’t seem to matter. They were good together.<\/p>\n

“We just clicked. He was chatty and a good listener. He was very charming,” Ellie said.<\/p>\n

They were together for about a year before James broke it off. He had to move away, but they remained friends.<\/p>\n

But in 2018, he phoned her in Australia to make a startling confession: he’d been living a lie. He was an undercover police officer who’d been sent to spy on her and those in her friendship circle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Australian connection to the UCPI\/spycops scandal extends further to political activist Helen Steel and spycop John Dines (AKA ‘John Barker’). Unmasking the spy cops: how women found the truth about men who tricked them into relationships<\/a>, Rob Evans, The Guardian, March 5, 2025:<\/p>\n

Helen Steel was in her 20s and deeply in love with a man who told her he would \u201clike to spend the rest of his life\u201d with her.<\/p>\n

She and John Barker had just moved into a new flat and would share long walks in the countryside, where they hoped to one day buy a cottage using money he had inherited.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had never felt this intensity of love for someone before,\u201d she says. \u201cAlthough we\u2019d had a few small arguments \u2026 John and I had been blissfully happy\u201d.<\/p>\n

One day he surprised her by suggesting that he wanted children with her. \u201cI was a little startled and asked how many he had in mind,\u201d she says. \u201cSix,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n

But it was all a lie \u2013 even his name.<\/p>\n

In reality he was an undercover police officer who had been sent to spy on her and her political allies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In 2016 it was discovered<\/a> that, from 2010, Dines worked at the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security (Charles Sturt University). In 2012, he was mentioned as Assistant Professor, receiving a team award for ‘professional excellence’.<\/p>\n

For more infos, please see:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance<\/a> : COPS helps support, promote and coordinate the quest for justice for people affected by political undercover police spying.
\n\u2022 Police Spies Out of Lives<\/a> : A support group campaigning and working to achieve an end to the sexual and psychological abuse by undercover police officers.
\n\u2022 Spycops Info<\/a> : Featuring a regularly-updated blog\/podcast.
\n\u2022 SpycopsResearch<\/a> An info database and Undercover Research Group project.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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