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Story summary
- UK police spent £2.5 million to move undercover officer John Dines to Australia to keep him from Helen Steel.
- Helen Steel arrived in Auckland on 14 December 2002, triggering a secret police warning and a luggage search.
- New Zealand police, on Scotland Yard orders, surveilled Steel’s family for weeks and photographed them.
- Steel testified that the £2.5 million relocation and surveillance abused state power to hide Dines’s identity.
