Below are adapted excerpts from profles of Andrew Coles: https://powerbase.info/index.php/Andy_Coles and in his undercover identity of of 'Andy Davey': https://powerbase.info/index.php/Andy_Davey_(undercover_alias_of_Andy_Coles)'
Jessica' and Coles gave evidence to The Inquiry in 2025. An updated profile will appear on this page.
HN2 Andy Coles ('Andy Davey') is a minor Conservative Party politician. He was previously a Detective Inspector with the Metropolitan Police and served with ACPO TAM. It was revealed in a book by his brother that he had been a Special Demonstratio Squad undercover, Andy 'Van' Davey, who infiltrated animal rights groups in London 1991 to 1995. The story broke on 12 May 2017 when 'Jessica', a woman he targeted for a relationship while undercover came forward to tell her story.
Andy Coles was deployed into the London animal rights scene in late 1991 in South London, using the cover name Andy Davey, though he gained the nickname 'Andy Van'. He remained active for the next couple of years, exiting in February 1995. He is a contemporary of another undercover officer in animal rights, Matt Rayner, and the pair were involved in a number of the same pan-London campaigning groups. Both officers would have been part of the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), within the Metropolitan Police Special Branch.