Woman reveals toll of 'c0ercive' relationship with police spy

A woman has revealed how an undercover police officer formed a long-term intimate relationship with her without disclosing his real identity, Vanished from her life and then reappeared seven years later.

- Rob Evans

When the officer came back, she says he persuaded her to break up with her then boyfriend of five years as he said he wanted to resume their relationship and have children.

He then slept with her for one night - then disappeared from her life again before dawn the next morning without explanation. She feared that he had made her pregnant as he had not wanted to use a condom, and so she had to get the morning-after pill.

The woman, known as Maya, has described how the officer, who used the fake name Rob Harrison, tormented her during their relationship with what she felt was controlling and coercive behaviour, such as accusing her of infidelity via text messages and then not speaking to her.

Maya had started the one-year relationship with "Harrison" in 2006 while he was infiltrating pro-Palestinian campaigners.

His conduct is to be examined by a judge-led public inquiry, which is looking at how about 139 undercover officers spied on more than 1,000 predominantly leftwing groups between 1968 and at least 2010.