Details
Details
Deployment:
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Deceased Child’s Identity:
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Targets:
HN1 'Matt Rayner'
Overview

This is an excerpt from the 'Matt Rayner' profile at the former Undercover Research Group wiki, last updated in 2019. 

Denise Fuller, the woman who was deceived into a relationship by HN1, gave evidence in 2024, and HN1 himself appeared in 2025. An updated profile will appear in due course.

HN1 'Matt Rayner' was an undercover police officer with the Special Demonstration Squad. He infiltrated the animal rights movement in north London from 1991 to 1996, targeting in particular the London Boots Action Group, London Animal Action, Animal Liberation Front and West London Hunt Saboteurs.

He had a sexual relationship with Denise Fuller while deployed; she gave evidence at the Inquiry. 

Rayner was one of two undercovers in animal rights in the early 1990s, and who were referred to indirectly in Rob Evans & Paul Lewis' book Undercover. 

Procedural

CSV
Date
Title
Document Type
Topic
Extension of time for service of anonymity applications by the MPS in respect of the SDS (Direction 12)
Order
Anonymity, Restriction order approach
HN1 Matt Rayner – Open application for restriction order
Application
Anonymity
SDS officers – Restriction Orders (Minded-To Note 2)
Minded-To Note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers (November 2017 update)
Explanatory note
Anonymity
Press Notice: Second ‘Minded-To Note on SDS anonymity applications
Press Notice
Anonymity
SDS officers – Directions on restriction order applications (Direction 20)
Direction
Anonymity
Press Notice: Documents relating to SDS anonymity applications (following November Minded-To Note)
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
SDS officers – Directions on restriction order applications (Direction 34)
Direction
Anonymity
SDS officers – List of applications and evidence published on 3 July 2018
Hearing bundle index
Anonymity
Press Notice: Documents and direction relating to SDS anonymity applications
Press Notice
Anonymity
NSCPs – July 2018 submissions on restriction order applications of various SDS officers
Submissions
Anonymity
SDS officers – Restriction Orders (Ruling 11)
Ruling
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 12
Explanatory note
Anonymity
Press Notice: Ruling on anonymity applications by 38 SDS officers, and a ‘Minded to’ note in respect of one officer
Press Notice
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 13
Explanatory note
Anonymity
HN1 Matt Rayner – Anonymity Order (Order 115)
Order
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
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
Inquiry publishes information in relation to SDS officers whose deployments fell within Tranche 2
Press Notice