Two officers could be sacked for gross misconduct if found guilty of snooping on Janet AlderPolice accused of spying on sister of man who died in custodyTwo police officers have been brought before a disciplinary panel accused of running an unauthorised surveillance operation against a woman whose brother was unlawfully killed in a police station. Janet Alder has described how she felt “terrorised by the state” during her campaign to discover the circumstances in which Christopher Alder, a former paratrooper, died at a Hull police station in 1998. The panel of three heard the surveillance team followed Janet Alder and her barrister Leslie Thomas to a hotel and car park. The officers thought Christopher Alder was play-acting. Janet Alder feared on a number of occasions that police had been spying on her after she started her campaign.

Source: The Guardian February 26, 2018 14:37 UTC