Sherwood tv series

In July 2004, in Annesley Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire, a man called Robert Boyer shot ex-miner Keith Frogson with a crossbow on his doorstep.

The Met has tried to claim that relationships were based on ‘genuine feelings’, but the sheer scale of the scandal shows the process was systematic. But those of us affected by the spycops scandal have yet to see our story come to life on screen. There were moments in which the show that did capture the devastation that the spycops scandal wrought on people’s lives. When the spycops scandal was uncovered due to revelations about the deceitful relationships and that the SDS had spied on the family of Stephen Lawrence, then-home secretary Theresa May set up a public inquiry into undercover policing. It was a prime-time opportunity to draw attention to this decades-long anti-democratic insult, to recount it with authenticity, to expose the brutality that devastated people’s lives. In one scene Lindsay Duncan, playing the NUM lawyer, gives a background report on undercover policing to the investigating cops, featuring an astonishing speech. What I take issue with, however, is the authenticity of the portrayal of the undercover police deployment. There has even been talk of ending it prematurely, unthinkable for the people affected. The relationship between the two police officers is sparky, and when the local chief constable announces that the Met will be sending scores of extra officers into the ex-pit village to strengthen the manhunt, the tension is palpable, the imagery when they arrive overwhelming. His last known whereabouts was the local miners’ social club the previous night, where he was involved in an altercation with one of the working/scab UDM miners, Dean, played with palpable anger by Sean Gilder. It may also have been the catalyst for the historical tragedy that binds them both together. But the powers-that-be within the Met don’t actually want Salisbury to investigate—they’re mainly trying to fob him off until he retires early and goes quietly, as his reputation has been tarnished ever since that fateful deployment to police the miners’ strike.