Police demand costs from seduced campaigner

An environmental campaigner who was deceived into forming a long-term intimate relationship with a police spy is refusing to pay Scotland Yard a £7,000 legal bill incurred during her quest for the truth.
Helen Steel fought a four-year legal battle against police chiefs who were eventually compelled to apologise unreservedly for the abuse and emotional trauma she suffered from the deception.
As part of the battle, she pursued a legal challenge to force the Metropolitan police to disclose that her former boyfriend, John Dines, had been an undercover officer.
She incurred the bill for the police’s legal costs after she withdrew the appeal. She says she was forced to withdraw to avoid the possibility of being landed with a much larger bill.
The Met has employed a firm of lawyers to chase the outstanding bill and is threatening to take “enforcement action” against her if she does not pay by Wednesday (TODAY)....
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Ticking Clock as Police Probe Mr. Danczuk?

TODAY's Rochdale Observer reveals that the Scotland Yard police are now focusing on the Rochdale MP., Simon Danczuk's expenses claims.  
This follows complaints to the Parliamentary Standards Authority earlier this year that originated from the Rochdale Liberal Democrat, David Hennigan.
The Parliamentary expenses regulatory started an investigation in January after it became clear that Mr. Danczuk had been claiming extra accommodation allowance since 2011 for his children, despite his ex-wife insisting that he never saw two of his children.
MPs are allowed to claim allowance for children who 'routinely' live with them in London.
It now turns out that neither of his children from his first marriage have seen him in London for years, according to his ex-wife Sonia and his son George.
Mr. Danczuk now says:
'My accommodation claims were made in accordance with what I believed to be an honest interpretation of the IPSA rules.  I am co-operating fully with all investigations and have, of course, offered to refund the amount in full.'