![]() ![]() At none of the reported events on Stubbs was there social disorder. Stubbs helped form Inquest, which provides expertise on state-related deaths. ![]() SDS reported on Stubbs attending numerous meetings, including ones where Peach was not even mentioned, protests and social gatherings. ![]() Its work was to gather intelligence to prevent public disorder, and to assist the security service in defending the UK from espionage and sabotage. SDS was established following Red Lion Square. She knows the name of only one, Mark Jenner, who did so from1995 till around 1999. Over the decades eight officers filed reports on her. Meanwhile, the police had started to spy on Stubbs. The Metropolitan Police’s complaints bureau investigated, taking statements from SPG members, some of whose lockers contained unauthorised weapons. Peach was leaving Southall when, according to 14 eye-witnesses, an SPG officer struck him on the head. But when they began removing 3,000 sit-down protestors, the atmosphere became ugly and missiles were thrown.Īmong the police were members of the Special Patrol Group, which had gained notoriety following the Red Lion Square disorders in 1974 when student Kevin Gately was killed by a blow to the head by an unidentified assailant. Some 3,000 Metropolitan Police officers were charged with maintaining the peace. In April 1979, Peach, Stubbs and friends went to Southall to protest against a National Front general election rally. According to David Barr KC, the inquiry’s most senior barrister: “Senior police officers visited the SDS, were aware of its existence and, in broad terms, how it operated.” Yet none appear to “have considered whether the level of intrusion occasioned by SDS long-term deployments was justified”. Senior Scotland Yard officers supervised the SDS and their actions will be examined shortly. The inquiry opened in 2020 and to date has taken evidence from the period1968 to 1982. The inquiry, led by Sir John Mitting, is scrutinising the conduct of 139 undercover officers in the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) who spied on more than 1,000 political groups between 19, possibly longer. Meanwhile, Manchester University law lecturer Graham Smith, who has supported Stubbs throughout, believes there is a case for a charge of perversion of the course of justice against some senior police officers who knew the police had killed Peach but failed to prevent Stubbs being spied on. Following her appearance at the Undercover Policing Inquiry, Celia Stubbs, whose partner Blair Peach was killed by police, is convinced the police officers who spied on her did so “to help collude and conspire to conceal the true circumstances of Blair’s death and to enable the police to escape accountability for it”. ![]()
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