Station:
ITVX (GB)
Status:
To Be Determined
Start:
2025-03-05
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For more than 40 years, a secret unit of undercover police were paid to spy on ordinary members of the public. Shockingly, they included more than 60 women – deceived into deeply intimate relationships with officers who they had no idea were deployed in covert operations. The ‘spycops scandal' is the subject of an almost decade-long £88 million public inquiry into their tactics and now, a gripping three-part documentary series for ITV1 and
ITVX, The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed, which will air in early
2025.
Five of the women who were deceived and blew the lid off this scandal, have entrusted ITV, makers of the award-winning drama series Mr Bates vs The Post Office, to expose how they turned detective to uncover one of the state's biggest secrets. Speaking together on camera for the first time, the creepy similarities between the women's
experiences come to light: from the way they were seduced into their relationships, to the
almost identical letters they received when they were abandoned - and ghosted - by the men they loved.
They reveal how they discovered police officers stole the identities of deceased children to create new aliases and even fathered children with the women they spied upon whilst undercover.
There is no Next Episode of The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed planned.
S1E1 - I Will Find You
Five women share their experiences of being deceived into intimate relationships with undercover police officers. Alison, Lisa and Helen were campaigners in their twenties when they first met their seemingly perfect boyfriends, but creepy clues emerged as their relationships developed. When all three women dug deeper, they discovered they had been spun a web of lies as their perfect activist boyfriends were state agents who had deceived them.
Air Date: 05 Mar 2025 06:00 (CDT)
S1E2 - There Are Others
A mutual friend introduces Helen and Alison, and they work out that their former partners must have belonged to a Metropolitan Police squad that infiltrated left-wing groups. No-one is interested in their story and both women are forced to move on with their lives. Seven years later, an online post finally unmasks former officer Mark Kennedy, whose undercover name was Mark Stone.
Air Date: 05 Mar 2025 06:00 (CDT)
S1E3 - Neither Confirm or Deny
The women unite to take legal action and share their eerily similar experiences and copycat letters from their former partners. They suspect the officers' tactics were systemic, but the Metropolitan Police resists by citing their Neither Confirm Nor Deny policy in spite of attempts to sue the Met.
Air Date: 05 Mar 2025 06:00 (CDT)