"I thought he was my soulmate. " The women duped into loving undercover cops

Jun 28, 2013, 12:33 PM

We speak to women who had relationships with undercover police officers. Helen Steel and Belinda Harvey are two of eight women suing the Met for the psychological damage they say they've suffered. All 8 say that between 1987 and 2010, five undercover officers tricked them into intimate relationships while on intelligence gathering exercises. All of them claim they are victims of the force's covert operations which specifically targeted protest groups by infiltrating their organisations.