An undercover police officer used his fake identity to deceive a woman into a 19-year relationship in which they became partners and had a child together, the Guardian can reveal.

The officer concealed his real identity from the woman for the duration of that period, never telling her his real occupation, and using his fictitious identity on the birth certificate of their son.

In 2020, after the couple were engaged to be married, the woman discovered that her fiance, whom she believed to be a businessman, was in fact a police officer who had subjected her to a sophisticated deception lasting almost two decades.

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      1 year ago

      Regardless of agency or police, the important bit is he left the job 9 years ago. And they let him keep using the identity for 7 years after that.

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        1 year ago

        I mean when the real identity is known by people that do not like him too much it could also be like whiteness protection program…

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      1 year ago

      As the article states it was a police officer from the “Avon and Somerset police” and not any special intelligence agency.