Reclaim the Streets was a protest group that staged sit-ins on roads and campaigned for environmentally friendly public transport in the 1980s and 1990s X00199A woman who was tricked into a sexual relationship by an undercover police officer has launched legal action in an attempt to have him prosecuted for offences including rape. The environmental activist is seeking judicial review of the decision by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) not to charge Detective Constable Jim Boyling, one of several officers who infiltrated campaign groups deemed radical by Scotland Yard in the 1980s and 1990s. Between 1995 and 2000 Mr Boyling began relationships with three women he had been sent to spy on, one of them lasting nine years. He was placed on restricted duties in January and is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police’s professional standards unit after allegations that he married and had children with an activist he…

Source: The Times May 01, 2018 08:06 UTC