Details
Details
Alias:
Simon Wellings
Deployment:
-
Deceased Child’s Identity:
No
HN118 'Simon A. Wellings'
Overview

This is an excerpt from the Simon Wellings profile at the former Undercover Research Group wiki, last updated in July 2020. An new version of the profile will appear on this page after the hearings of HN118 and related activist witnesses.

HN118 'Simon C. Wellings' is the alias of an undercover police officer who infiltrated anti-globalisation group 'Globalise Resistance' and the Socialist Workers Party. This was confirmed by the Undercover Policing Inquiry confirmed that 'Simon Wellings' had served with the Metropolitan Police's Special Demonstration Squad, he is also referred to by the cipher HN118.

Wellings was exposed when a debriefing session with his police handlers was accidentally recorded on a telephone answering machine of an activist in 2004. 

He left the group, but managed to continue as an undercover until 2007, with a second deployment targeting the anarchist Dissent! Network with a second deployment targeting the Dissent! network which organised around the G8 Summit in Scotland in 2006. 

 

Procedural

CSV
Date
Title
Document Type
Topic
Press Notice: Update on anonymity applications – N118 (“Simon Wellings”)
Press Notice
Anonymity
SDS officers – Directions on restriction order applications (Direction 22)
Direction
Anonymity
HN118 Simon Wellings – Open application for restriction order
Application
Anonymity
SDS officers – List of documents published on 17 April 2018 for hearing on 21 March 2018
Hearing bundle index
Anonymity
SDS officers – Restriction Orders (Ruling 4 and Minded-To 6)
Ruling, Minded-To Note
Anonymity
SDS officers – Directions on restriction order applications following Minded-To Note 6 (Direction 27)
Direction
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 6
Explanatory note
Anonymity
Press Notice: Ruling, Minded-To Note and directions relating to the SDS
Press Notice
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 7
Explanatory note
Anonymity
SDS officers – Directions on restriction order applications for hearing of 9 May 2018 (Direction 28)
Direction
Anonymity
Press Notice: Documents for hearing on 9 May 2018
Press Notice
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 8
Explanatory note
Anonymity
NSCPs – May 2018 submissions on restriction order applications of various SDS officers
Submissions
Anonymity
Operational note for hearing of 9 May 2018
Operational Note
Anonymity
SDS officers – Restriction Orders (Ruling 7)
Ruling
Anonymity
Press Notice: Rulings on SDS anonymity applications
Press Notice
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
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 12
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 13
Explanatory note
Anonymity
HN118 Simon Wellings – Anonymity Order (Order 72)
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