The
Metropolitan Police has been accused of “institutional
corruption” following a £16m probe into the unsolved murder of private detective
Daniel Morgan.
An independent panel concluded that the force’s “first objective was to protect itself” over allegations that corrupt officers were involved in the murder.
Mr Morgan, a father of two, was brutally murdered with an axe in the car park of a south London pub in March 1987.
There have been no successful prosecutions despite four major police investigations, an inquest, disciplinary action, complaints and other operations.
Mr Morgan’s relatives called for action on the “sickness” of police corruption, after decades of being “lied to, fobbed off, bullied, degraded and let down”.