https://www.positive.news/society/life-after-the-spycops-scandal/
"When Kate Wilson found out that her ex-partner Mark Stone was in fact an
undercover police officer called Mark Kennedy, she was surprised by her own
lack of anger. “[I didn’t feel] hatred or even really a sense of betrayal,” she
says. “Mostly, what I felt was really sad. I had lost this really close friend.
It was like he had died.”
A longtime environmental activist, Wilson had been aware of the risk of police
surveillance. “Sometimes, someone incredibly socially awkward showed up to a
meeting. They didn’t fit in, and just sat at the back and left without talking
to anybody,” she recalls. “Everyone would think: ‘That was a cop’.”
In fact, the opposite was true, she says: “The cops were the really charismatic
ones who were right in the centre of everything and made you feel good about
yourself.” When Wilson met Kennedy in 2003 at the Sumac Centre, a community
space in Nottingham, he was “really good fun”, she recalls. “He was very
enthusiastic, an incredibly good listener, and he was very complimentary.”
Their romantic relationship lasted just over a year – during which time Kennedy
became the first partner Wilson had ever lived with – and they remained in
frequent contact. Then, while studying medicine in Barcelona in 2010, Wilson
received a phone call from Kennedy’s girlfriend at the time, a close friend of
hers known publicly only as ‘Lisa’, who had just discovered Kennedy’s passport
with his real name.
Wilson’s life was “totally derailed” by the news. Unable to concentrate, she
failed her university exams by one mark at the end of her first term. But she
was determined to seek justice."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
