Nor did they know that over the next few weeks, police officers tracked their movements and took photographs of them. They feared that Steel was about to expose one of their undercover officers. ..Helen Steele is one half of the infamous McLibel court case from the 1990s that destroyed McDonalds brand like no other event beforehand. She was tricked and betrayed into a relationship with a British Spy, and then when she went searching for him in NZ, our Police secretly spied on her? Helen Steele is one of the great activists, she deserved way better than that.