Andrew Coles sings in a church choir, is active in local Conservative politics and was once an undercover Metropolitan Police officer – a so-called “spy cop”.
Jessica – not her real name – is an animal rights activist who says he deceived her into sleeping with him.
This is a story about sex and lies. But who is telling the truth?
Coles, 66, lives in a thatched cottage in the Cambridgeshire countryside with his wife and their greyhound.
He is the brother of broadcaster the Reverend Richard Coles.
But between 1990 and 1995, he served in the Metropolitan Police Service’s (MPS) undercover Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), which infiltrated political and protest groups.
For the past decade, its activities have been probed by the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI), external.
“The MPS has accepted that Andrew Coles had a sexual relationship with Jessica,” wrote the force’s commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, “and is disappointed he did not tell the truth to the inquiry.”
Coles is also accused of appearing to advise colleagues to have similar relationships.
He vehemently denies the claims against him, insisting he is the victim of a deceit.
“It’s payback, pure and simple,” he says.