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More than 100 women could have been deceived into having sexual relationships with undercover police officers, it is claimed.

The Metropolitan Police may be forced to pay millions to compensate the women as it emerged one has received £425,000 after she had a child with a police spy.

Known only as Jacqui, she has a son with Bob Lambert, who was outed in 2012 as a member of the now-defunct Special Demonstration Squad, which placed officers in deep-cover roles between 1968 and 2008.

She was one of 12 women to take High Court action against the Met over the activities of officers such as Lambert.

The number of victims is likely to be more than 100 as the Met has revealed it deployed 147 SDS officers in the past 40 years.

A source said: “In nine out of 10 cases we know about, SDS officers have had sexual relationships while undercover.

"There were nearly 150 of them, so it would not be unreasonable to suggest there are many more out there who don’t realise they are victims.”

In a statement released by her solicitors, confirming the out-of-court settlement, Jacqui said: “The legal case is finished but there is no closure for me.

"There is the money, but there is no admission by the police that what they did was wrong, no meaningful apology and most importantly no answers.

“My world fell apart on June 14, 2012, when after 24 years I discovered my first true love, the father of my first child, was a police officer paid to spy on me and my friends.”

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Jacqui said she lived with Lambert for three years and he was present when she gave birth to their son.

“I feel violated,” she said. “Precious memories and rites of passage that marked milestones in a woman’s life have been corrupted and leave me feeling disorientated and destroyed.”

Lambert, who had left the police and became an academic, was unmasked in October 2011.

Jacqui did not find out until June 2012, when she read about him. Within hours she traced Lambert.

Her son, now 24, has become close to his father. Jacqui has no contact.

The Met was forced to name Lambert and another officer after a High Court judge ruled the force could not use a “neither confirm nor deny” response to damages claims.

Jules Carey, Jacqui’s lawyer, said: “The Met are prepared to criticise an officer, Bob Lambert, but they refuse to condemn using sexual relationships as a tool of policing.”

Scotland Yard apologised for any suffering the ­relationship caused but insisted it had never had a policy that officers could use sex for police purposes.