Mark Kennedy controversy: activists invited to challenge convictions | guardian.co.uk
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Keir Starmer QC said he had invited 29 activists to challenge their convictions at the court of appeal after concluding that a senior prosecutor may have withheld vital evidence about Kennedy from their trial. He also announced a Scotland Yard review all of the police officer’s deployments, saying: “What happened in cases involving Mark Kennedy cannot be allowed to happen again.”
The campaigners stopped a train carrying about 1,000 tonnes of coal to the Drax power station in North Yorkshire in 2008. Kennedy is understood to have infiltrated the group, assisting them with a reconnaissance mission and later driving some campaigners to a rendezvous. They were convicted in 2009.
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