Met deputy too busy for questions on spy officer's relationship with woman

Stephen House is key witness in claim from Kate Wilson, who was deceived into relationship with undercover officer

Scotland Yard has suggested its deputy commissioner is too busy to be cross-examined in a legal case about an undercover officer who deceived a woman into a long-term sexual relationship.

Sir Stephen House is a key witness in the legal claim being brought against the Metropolitan police by Kate Wilson, an environmental and social justice activist who was deceived into a two-year intimate relationship by undercover officer Mark Kennedy.