‘The Relationships Were Completely Systematic’

Donna McLean, who was deceived into a relationship as part of the Spycops scandal, speaks to Tribune about the deliberate nature of abuse by undercover police, the wider web of corruption exposed by recent revelations — and why she feels the public inquiry process offers little justice.

Illustration by Paul Hallows

‘As far as I was concerned, I’d met someone, and they were going to be my partner for life. I was going to marry them and have children with them.’ In her new memoir Small Town Girl, activist Donna McLean writes of her boyfriend, known to her then as Carlo Neri, pro-posing at their shared […]

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