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| Daniel Morgan: Met Police accused of corruption in report | |
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| Daniel Morgan was found dead in a pub car park in 1987 | |
| An independent panel has accused the Met Police of "a form of institutional corruption" for concealing or denying failings over the unsolved murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan. | An independent panel has accused the Met Police of "a form of institutional corruption" for concealing or denying failings over the unsolved murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan. |
| Its first objective was to "protect itself" for not acknowledging its failures since the 1987 murder, panel chairman Baroness O'Loan said. | |
| Mr Morgan's family, and the public, are owed an apology, her report said. | |
| He was killed with an axe in the car park of a pub in south-east London. | |
| Despite five police inquiries and an inquest, no-one has been brought to justice over the father of two's death, with the Metropolitan Police admitting corruption had hampered the original murder investigation. | |
| In a statement through their lawyer, Mr Morgan's family said: "We welcome the recognition that we - and the public at large - have been failed over the decades by a culture of corruption and cover-up in the Metropolitan Police, an institutionalised corruption that has permeated successive regimes in the Metropolitan Police and beyond to this day." | |
| Timeline: Daniel Morgan axe murder | |
| Home Secretary Priti Patel told the Commons the report was "deeply alarming" and revealed a "litany of mistakes" by the Met Police. | |
| She said the behaviour of the force "irreparably damaged the chances of successful prosecution". | |
| Mr Morgan, from Llanfrechfa near Cwmbran in south Wales, died in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham on 10 March 1987. | |
| Failures criticised by the panel include procedural errors - the crime scene was not searched - and forensic work was of so poor a standard it was described by a senior officer in the second investigation as "pathetic". | |
| "In many respects that investigation was not compliant with the policies and procedures in force at the time," the report says. | |
| "From the beginning, there were allegations that police officers were involved in the murder, and that corruption by police officers played a part in protecting the murderer(s) from being brought to justice." |