Details
Details
Alias:
Carlo Neri
Deployment:
-
Deceased Child’s Identity:
No
HN104 Carlo Soracchi (cover name 'Carlo Neri)
Overview

This is an excerpt from a profile last updated in 2019. The full profile can be found here: https://powerbase.info/index.php/Carlo_Neri_(alias)  The women who had relationships him, as welll as other witnesses are due to give evidence in 2026 to The Inquiry, as is HN104 himself.

HN104 Carlo Soracch ('Carlo Neri') was an undercover police officer who infiltrated the Socialist Party and anti-fascists groups. He was active from 2001 to 2006 and based in north and central London - which makes it likely he served with the Special Demonstration Squad. His real name is Carlo Soracchi. He had three sexual relationships in his cover identity.

Much of the following information comes from interviews with various members of the Socialist Party and anti-fascist activists who knew Carlo, worked with him and befriended him, and in particular from two of his partners while undercover.

An investigation conducted through summer and autumn 2015 by the Undercover Research Group together with those spied upon provided sufficient material to identify Carlo's real name and documents confirming he was a serving police officer at the time (details below). We decided not to publish Carlo's real surname as its distinctiveness would invade the privacy of various parties who are not otherwise involved.

Carlo Neri was exposed on Newsnight and in the Guardian in January 2016. It took the police and the Pitchford Inquiry ten months to acknowledge that he indeed had been an undercover officer at the time.

In April 2019, journalist Michael Gillard revealed Carlo's real name Soracchi on Twitter. Gillard is an investigative journalist who has a particular interest in police corruption. In March 2020, notorious fascist Robert Fiore said he intends to take the Metropolitan Police to court, because Carlo tried to persuade two anti-fascist activists to firebombe a large property he owned in London in 2003.

Procedural

Date
Title
Document Type
Topic
Police and NSCPs – Core Participants (Ruling 1)
Ruling
Core participants, Deceased Children’s Identities (procedural)
Police and NSCPs – Core Participants (Ruling 3)
Ruling
Core participants
Police – Recognised Legal Representatives (Ruling 5)
Ruling
Core participants
NSCPs and Police – Core Participants (Ruling 6)
Ruling
Core participants
HN104 Carlo Neri – MPS Open application for restriction order
Application
Anonymity
HN101 Carlo Neri – Impact Statement of partner
Impact Statement
Anonymity
HN104 Carlo Neri – Additional Impact Statement
Impact Statement
Anonymity
HN104 Carlo Neri – Impact Statement
Impact Statement
Anonymity
HN101 Carlo Neri – Impact Statement of relative
Impact Statement
Anonymity
Press Notice: Update on anonymity applications – N104 (“Carlo Neri”)
Press Notice
Anonymity
HN104 Carlo Neri – Open medical assessment
Medical report
Anonymity
Extension of time for service of anonymity applications by the MPS in respect of the SDS (Direction 12)
Order
Anonymity, Restriction order approach
HN104 Carlo Neri – Slater & Gordon open application for restriction order
Application
Anonymity
HN104 Carlo Neri – Slater & Gordon supplementary application for restriction order
Application
Anonymity
SDS officers – Restriction Orders (Minded-To Note 1)
Minded-To Note
Anonymity
SDS officers – List of documents published on 3 August 2017 to accompany Minded-To Note 1
Hearing bundle index
Anonymity
Press Notice: Minded-to Note, ruling and directions in respect of anonymity applications relating to the SDS
Press Notice
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers (August 2017 update)
Explanatory note
Anonymity
NSCPs – Submissions re Minded-To Note of 3 August 2017 on restriction order applications
Submissions
Anonymity, Photographs
Supplementary Minded-To Note on restriction orders for various SDS officers
Minded-To Note
Anonymity
Press Notice: Supplementary Minded-To Note on SDS anonymity applications. Hearing on 20-22 Nov 2017
Press Notice
Anonymity
MPS – Submissions re SDS anonymity restriction orders, responding to points made by media and NSCPs
Submissions
Anonymity
NPCPs – Submissions re Minded Note of 23 October 2017 concerning SDS restriction order applications
Submissions
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers (November 2017 update)
Explanatory note
Anonymity
Transcript of UCPI Procedural Hearing 8: Anonymity II, Restriction Order Approach (Day 2)
Transcript
Anonymity, Restriction order approach, Photographs
HN104 Carlo Neri – Restriction Order: ruling postponing decision (Ruling 2)
Ruling
Anonymity
SDS officers – Directions on restriction order applications (Direction 19)
Direction
Anonymity
Press Notice: Ruling, Minded-To Note and Directions relating to HN15, HN58, HN104 ‘Carlo Neri’
Press Notice
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers (January 2018 update)
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 4
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 5
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 6
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 7
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 8
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 9
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 11
Explanatory note
Anonymity
HN104 Carlo Neri – Directions on restriction order applications (Direction 36)
Direction
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 12
Explanatory note
Anonymity
HN104 Carlo Neri – Ruling on use of officer’s real name in the Inquiry (Ruling 12)
Ruling
Anonymity
Press Notice: Ruling on an application for a restriction order over the real name of SDS officer HN104 (‘Carlo Neri’)
Press Notice
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 13
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 14 and Ruling 14
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Ruling 16
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Ruling 17
Explanatory note
Anonymity
HN104 Carlo Neri – Anonymity restriction order
Order
Anonymity
HN104 Carlo Neri – Ruling on use of officer’s real name in the Inquiry
Ruling
Anonymity
KTC (NSCP) – Supplementary submission re Restriction Order for HN104
Submissions
Anonymity
Submissions on behalf of Dave Smith, Donna McLean, Lindsey (NSCPs) regarding the restriction order for HN104
In response to submissions of KTC
Submissions
Anonymity
KTC (NSCP) – Submission re Restriction Order for HN104
Submissions
Anonymity
CTI – Note on restriction order application re Carlo Neri for hearing of 9 November 2020
Counsel note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Ruling 18
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Ruling 19 (March 2021 update)
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Ruling 19 (September 2021 update)
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Ruling 20
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 16
Explanatory note
Anonymity

References

Author(s)
Title
Publisher
Year
Richard Watson, Maria Polachowska
Undercover policeman proposed to activist
BBC News Online