Undercover police officer was sacked for assaulting partner, spycops inquiry hears

Conviction revealed during questioning of Rob Hastings about a second woman whom he deceived into intimate relationship An undercover officer who deceived a woman into an intimate relationship was later convicted and dismissed from the police for assaulting his long-term partner, the public inquiry into undercover policing has heard. Rob Hastings, who infiltrated pro-Palestinian and left wing protest groups for three years during his covert deployment, was convicted of assaulting his now ex-partner and mother of his three children in 2014. He was sacked by the Metropolitan police for gross misconduct as a result. The existence of the criminal conviction was revealed at the spycops inquiry this week. Hastings was questioned about his treatment of another woman, known as Maya, whom he deceived into a year-long relationship. After the relationship with Maya ended in 2007, he vanished from her life before reappearing seven years later. At that point he convinced Maya to break up with her then boyfriend of five years, as he said he wanted to resume their relationship and have children together. He then had sex with Maya once, in 2015, and left before dawn, disappearingagain from her lif