CPS opens inquiry after claims prosecutors withheld undercover police officer’s surveillance tapes from defence lawyers
Rob Evans and Paul Lewis
Prosecutors have been accused of suppressing surveillance tapes covertly recorded by the undercover police officer Mark Kennedy, the Guardian can reveal.
Leaked documents indicate the Crown Prosecution Service may also have misled the public and even the courts when the trial of six environmental campaigners accused of planning to break into Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire collapsed earlier this year.
Two days before it was due to commence, the trial was abandoned by the CPS, which told the court that „previously unavailable information“ had come to light that undermined its case against the activists.
However, the supposedly new evidence – the Kennedy tapes – had in fact been in the possession of the CPS for more than a year. (more on guardian.co.uk)
