N81: Meeting with the Lawrence Review Team - Revision history

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-{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name='N81'|Alias=unknown|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Male_silhouette.png|Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1996-ca. 2001/2002|Targets=Black &amp; family justice campaigns}}
+{{Undercover_Police_Officer_sidebar|Name='N81'|Alias=''Dave Hagan''|Series=undercover police officers|Image=Male_silhouette.png|Unit=Special Demonstration Squad|DatesDeployed=1996-2001|Targets=Black &amp; family justice campaigns, Movement for Justice; Socialist Workers Party, Class War, Movement Against the Monarchy.}}
 This page is one of series on N81 and the spying on the Stephen Lawrence campaign. It focuses on a meeting between N81, an undercover police officer who was with the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] (SDS) from 1996 to around 2001/2, his handler [[Bob Lambert]] and then DI [[Richard Walton]]. At the time of the meeting Walton was part of the [[Lawrence Review Team]], a group of senior officers tasked with preparing Metropolitan Police Commissioner [[Paul Condon]] submissions to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry.
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 In addition to our first [[N81: Profile from the Ellison Report| N81 profile based on Ellison]], this page summarises the detailed findings of the Review about the 1998 meeting.
 This page is one of series on N81 and the spying on the Stephen Lawrence campaign. Related pages:

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 * [[N81]]
 * [[N81: File Notes SDS]]
 * [[N81: IPCC investigation]]

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 ==Background==
-Ellison considered the meeting between an active undercover officer and the Lawrence Review Team highly inappropriate; it showed that information gathered by spying was used to mould the Commissioner's response to what was supposed to be an independent inquiry. While worries about possible riots are used by those responsible as the main reason for the infiltration of campaign groups back in the days, Ellison concluded there was no conceivable ‘public order’ to justify it. On the contrary, the spying as such was the risk - if it would have come out at the time. Ellison<ref name="ELLISON1.267">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/stephen-lawrence-independent-review The Stephen Lawrence Independent Review], ''UK Government'', 6 March 2014, Vol. 1, p.267</ref>: "the MPS may itself have caused the real risk of the public disorder and the kind of ‘meltdown’ it so feared."
+Ellison considered the meeting between an active undercover officer and the Lawrence Review Team highly inappropriate; it showed that information gathered by spying was used to mould the Commissioner's response to what was supposed to be an independent inquiry. While worries about possible riots are used by those responsible as the main reason for the infiltration of campaign groups back in the days, Ellison concluded there was no conceivable ‘public order’ justification for it. On the contrary, the spying as such was the risk - if it would have come out at the time. Ellison<ref name="ELLISON1.267">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/stephen-lawrence-independent-review The Stephen Lawrence Independent Review], ''UK Government'', 6 March 2014, Vol. 1, p.267</ref>: "the MPS may itself have caused the real risk of the public disorder and the kind of ‘meltdown’ it so feared."
 However, in the late 1990s - as the Ellison Review documented - nobody had any second thoughts about the meeting. It was only after Richard Walton was informed that he was going to be criticised in the final report of the Ellison Review, that he understood he was in trouble. His attempt to change his account was dismissed by Ellison, and the subsequent fall-out would lead to Walton being temporarily removed from his post as Commander of [[Counter Terrorism Command]] in March 2014.<ref>Vikram Dodd, [http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/07/met-counter-terrorism-chief-moved-lawrence-scandal Met counter-terror chief moved from post over role in Lawrence scandal], ''The Guardian'', 7 March 2014, accessed 2 May 2014</ref> (Walton was restored to his post in October 2014<ref>Press Association, [http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/31/stephen-lawrence-commander-richard-walton-ipcc-police Terror police chief in Stephen Lawrence ‘spying’ row back on duty next month], ''The Guardian'', 31 October 2014, accessed 25 November 2014</ref> before the IPCC was finished with its investigation.)

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 * [[Lawrence Review Team]].
 * [[N81 in the Undercover Policing Inquiry]]
 ==Background==

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	This page is one of series on N81 and the spying on the Stephen Lawrence campaign. It focuses on a meeting between N81, an undercover police officer who was with the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] (SDS) from 1996 to around 2001/2, his handler [[Bob Lambert]] and then DI [[Richard Walton]]. At the time of the meeting Walton was part of the [[Lawrence Review Team]], a group of senior officers tasked with preparing Metropolitan Police Commissioner [[Paul Condon]] submissions to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry.		This page is one of series on N81 and the spying on the Stephen Lawrence campaign. It focuses on a meeting between N81, an undercover police officer who was with the [[Special Demonstration Squad]] (SDS) from 1996 to around 2001/2, his handler [[Bob Lambert]] and then DI [[Richard Walton]]. At the time of the meeting Walton was part of the [[Lawrence Review Team]], a group of senior officers tasked with preparing Metropolitan Police Commissioner [[Paul Condon]] submissions to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry.

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 ::Yes... as I say it is a long time ago, but I think that it might have been a chance meeting with Bob Lambert where he would have said something like, ‘Well, if it helps, do you want to... would it help to meet the actual operative in the field?’, I think it might be that. I think I said, ‘Yes, Bob, that would help because it would allow me to contextualise what is actually going on out there because we are getting all sorts of feeds and to speak to a person actually in the field would probably be as good as it gets.
-Walton would try to withdraw his statements on being notified he was going to be criticised in the Review<ref>Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/stephen-lawrence-independent-review The Stephen Lawrence Independent Review], ''UK Government'', 6 March 2014, Vol. 1, p.243-44</ref>. He now claimed not to have known  that the undercover he was going to meet would have coverage of the Lawrence family, and also says that the Lawrence campaign had not been discussed at the meeting. Lambert's [[N81: File Note SDS| File Note]], written within days after the meeting, suggests the opposite. Likewise, when retracting his statement, Walton argued that by August 1998, he had already moved on to work for SO24, under DAC Grieves. However, the File Note introduces him as "currently working with the Stephen Lawrence review team."
+Walton would try to withdraw his statements on being notified he was going to be criticised in the Review<ref>Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/stephen-lawrence-independent-review The Stephen Lawrence Independent Review], ''UK Government'', 6 March 2014, Vol. 1, p.243-44</ref>. He now claimed not to have known  that the undercover he was going to meet would have coverage of the Lawrence family, and also says that the Lawrence campaign had not been discussed at the meeting. Lambert's [[N81: File Notes SDS| File Note]], written within days after the meeting, suggests the opposite. Likewise, when retracting his statement, Walton argued that by August 1998, he had already moved on to work for SO24, under DAC Grieves. However, the File Note introduces him as "currently working with the Stephen Lawrence review team."
 On hearing that he too was going to be criticised by Ellison, Bob Lambert claimed the meeting had taken place at a request from his senior management, via the Commander of Special Branch [[Colin Black]], and its purpose 'was so that Mr Walton could fully brief the Commissioner'.<ref name="ELLISON1.233">Mark Ellison, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/stephen-lawrence-independent-review The Stephen Lawrence Independent Review], ''UK Government'', 6 March 2014, Vol. 1, p.233</ref> There were no limitations as to what the meeting could cover and Walton would ask questions, and N81 would answer. The only thing specified that intelligence was wanted on was whether the Commissioner should attend a particular public meeting in relation to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry.

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 * [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287031/stephen_lawrence_review_volume_1.pdf| The Ellison Review] Full title: The Stephen Lawrence Independent Review, Possible corruption and the role of undercover policing in the Stephen Lawrence case. Vol. 1. March 2014.
 * [http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/Documents/About-Us/Herne/Operation-Herne---Report-2---Allegations-of-Peter-Francis.pdf| Operation Herne] Full title: Operation Herne, Report 2, Allegations of Peter Francis, March 2014.
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