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‘I found out my best mate's a spycop’
Animal rights activist Daryl Dixon speaks to the Star after discovering his friend in the 1980s was an undercover copper
Daryl Dixon (left), an animal rights activist who was spied on by police officer ‘John Lipscomb’ in the 1980s
AN ANIMAL rights activist has spoken out about his shock at recently discovering his best mate in the 1980s was actually a police spy.
The officer, known only by his cover name John Lipscomb, infiltrated several south London-based animal rights groups during the 1980s and ’90s, including Bromley Animal Rights, where he met Daryl Dixon, then aged 23, in 1987.
Mr Dixon, a lifelong animal rights activist from Kent, quickly formed a close friendship with Lipscomb, bonding over a shared passion for the cause.
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