While last of Stephen Lawrence's alleged killers is still walking loose on the streets of Eltham, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has reportedly said that it has evidence that the Met has allegedly destroyed or shredded paperworks kept by National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit in May 2014. The document was allegedly destroyed after Theresa May, the then Home Secretary announced an inquiry into undercover policing, following a series of scandals about the way officers in a controversial unit (officers spying on political groups and other organisations) had behaved.
While the event in itself has raised quite a few brows, common citizen who pin their faith in police to protect them have been left feeling shocked and violated by these allegations.
Among the allegations being explored by the inquiry, one claims that officers formed long-term sexual relationships with activists and gathered information on the grieving relatives of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence.
