Details
Details
Alias:
Dave Evans
Deployment:
-
Unit
SDS
Deceased Child’s Identity:
No
HN60 'Dave Evans'
Overview

HN60 'Dave Evans' was an SDS undercover officer between 1998 and 2005 against the Socialist Workers Party, London Animal Action & Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. 

Although not originally called as a witness, HN60 will now appear at the Undercover Policing Inquiry on 21 September 2026 between 10am and 1pm. This follows Non-State Participants asserting that he had a sexual relationship in his cover identity.

Evans shared a flat with fellow undercover HN3 'Jason Bishop' and was arrested with him at the G8 in Scotland in 2005.

Full profile to follow. However, the short piece below appeared on the AR Spycatcher website:

Dave Evans was the pseudonym used by a police spy who joined London Animal Action in September 1999 as the replacement for Christine Green. Like his predecessor John Dines he claimed to be a Kiwi and spoke with a New Zealand accent. He attended most of LAA’s meetings as well as many demonstrations but, unlike Green and Matt Rayner, he did not become treasurer. On a number of occasions Evans was accompanied by a woman named Wanda who claimed to be his girlfriend but almost certainly was a spycop too.

He had a van which he used for his job as a gardener and he is known to have done gardening work for at least one activist. He also drove one of four minibuses hired by LAA for a SHAC Day of Action in February 2001 in which more than 80 arrests were made. Evans was not one of them. He also attended many of the fur protests the group organised at the time.

Evans had a reputation for behaving strangely and enjoying the social side of activism.  On one occasion he left a protest after a few minutes claiming his flatmate had been locked out. Another time he disappeared for weeks prompting people who knew him to go round to his flat and speak to someone claiming to be his flatmate. This was probably the undercover officer named Jason Bishop.  He and Evans drove activists to the G8 Summit in Scotland in 2005. All those in Evans’ minibus were arrested but the charges were later dropped. This was the last confirmed sighting of him

Reports

CSV
Date
Originator
MPS-UCPI
Title
Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MPS-0748299
Met note on policing plans for National Front public meeting and counter-demo in Southall on 23 April 1979

Procedural

CSV
Date
Title
Document Type
Topic
SDS officers – Directions on restriction order applications (Direction 18)
Direction
Anonymity
HN60 Dave Evans – Open application for restriction order
Application
Anonymity
SDS officers – Restriction Orders (Minded-To Note 4)
Minded-To Note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 4
Explanatory note
Anonymity
Press Notice: Minded-To and explanatory note re SDS anonymity applications
Press Notice
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 5
Explanatory note
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
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 7
Explanatory note
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 8
Explanatory note
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
SDS officers – Directions on restriction order applications (Direction 34)
Direction
Anonymity
SDS officers – List of applications and evidence published on 3 July 2018
Hearing bundle index
Anonymity
Press Notice: Documents and direction relating to SDS anonymity applications
Press Notice
Anonymity
NSCPs – July 2018 submissions on restriction order applications of various SDS officers
Submissions
Anonymity
SDS officers – Restriction Orders (Ruling 11)
Ruling
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 12
Explanatory note
Anonymity
Press Notice: Ruling on anonymity applications by 38 SDS officers, and a ‘Minded to’ note in respect of one officer
Press Notice
Anonymity
CTI – Explanatory note on restriction order applications for SDS officers following Minded-To 13
Explanatory note
Anonymity
HN60 Dave Evans – Anonymity Order (Order 94)
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
Timeline of SDS and commanding officers for Tranche 3
Timeline