Stephen Lawrence: live Q&A with police 'smear' campaign whistleblower Good question. Until yesterday, no-one in my life - family, friends, people I work with - knew anything about my undercover life. Coming out in this way has not been easy. But I am doing it because I feel that by coming out of the shadows, and speaking publicly, gives the best chance of to try to get a public inquiry. I know that what I have revealed about my spying on the Stephen Lawrence campaign has shocked many people - I believe it needed to be known, although I feel bad about the hurt this will be causing them. But I want to stress that they are not the only people who have been targeted. This issue is wider than that - which is why the home secretary I think was wrong to ask an existing inquiry into alleged "corruption" in the Lawrence inquiry deal with this (as well as the Met's inquiry, Operation Herne). There are also other victims: the parents of dead children whose identities were used by SDS and NPOIU officers, who were too upset to appear on last night's Dispatches programme. Also the women. I dread to think how many other women still don't know the men they were with were in fact undercover police. There could also be more children out there, who are oblivious their father was an undercover cop. My full story - and that of other officers - is in the book that is published today by Rob Evans and Paul Lewis. I have received no payment for this, but I have cooperated with their long-running investigation. I will not cooperate at all with the two inquiries the home secretary said can deal with these matters, even if they are "supervised" by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. I have no faith in any of these inquiries. Only a judicial-led or public inquiry - not just into the Stephen Lawrence allegations, but into the wider controversy - has any chance of ever establishing the truth. If there is a public inquiry, I will happily give all my evidence under oath, explaining what I personally know about the SDS and covert policing of protest groups.