07/04/2014 BBC London News


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Good evening. BBC London has obtained two confidential documents

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into alleged police corrupthon. The intelligence reports detail how

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officers from the elite Flyhng Squad were suspected of a conspir`cy to

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kidnap. They allegedly planned to hold the victim for a ?50,000

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ransom. Sources claim that the files were part of the mass shredding of

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documents at Scotland Yard hn 2 02. The Met say it's confident that it

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has intelligence on all the officers named in the reports. Glen Campbell

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has this exclusive report. They're the files into suspdcted

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police corruption that an official enquiry would have wanted to have

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seen. The problem was thous`nds of documents were thought to h`ve been

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shredded by The Met. It was highly embarrassing when it was revealed. I

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have decided that a public dnquiry led by a judge is necessary. But BBC

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London has obtained copies of two of the documents we've been told were

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destroyed in that shredding. We understand Scotland Yard has today

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found one version of these files but not both. So what do they contain?

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Well, the contents are shocking What these files outline is a

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suspected plot by Flying Sqtad officers to abduct the girlfriend of

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a security manager, forcing him to steal ?50,000 to secure her release.

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The technique is called a Thger Kidnap. This is how it all started.

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Mid`1990s, a woman is kidnapped Her partner, a security manager, gets a

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ransom demand for ?50,000 to secure her release. To free his girlfriend,

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he fills a suitcase with thd company's cash and hands it over to

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the criminals. In the days `fter the robbery, officers from the Flying

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Squad were called in to invdstigate and according to the intellhgence

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files, it was those enquirids by Flying Squad officers that spawned a

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corrupt plot to simply repe`t the same Tiger Kidnap again, evdn

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targeting the same security manager and his girlfriend. According to the

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documents, weeks before the Flying Squad kidnap was to take pl`ce,

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anti`corruption officers at Scotland Yard got wind of the alleged

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conspiracy and an undercover investigation was launched,

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codenamed Operation Grant. It was only then that the khdnap

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plot was thwarted. Alistair Morgan's brother Daniel was murdered in 987

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in a South London car park. He was about to blow the whistle on police

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corruption. One of the Flying Squad officers suspected of corruption in

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the Tiger Kidnap plot was friendly with those suspected of murdering

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Daniel Morgan. Obviously high`end, serious police corruption. @nd the

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fact that it's been shredded is again, outrageous I think. Why has

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this been kept in the dark for so long? And, is this a widespread

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phenomenon? How much else h`s been hidden, how much else has bden

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buried? I knew there were officers stealing drugs, there were rumours

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about officers on the Flying Squad being corrupt. But I didn't know

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that they were involved in this sort of activity. Yesterday, BBC London

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managed to contact the security manager's girlfriend, the woman the

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Flying Squad officers allegddly planned to kidnap. When we told her

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that she was in these Metropolitan Police intelligence files, she was

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totally shocked and said shd'd now look into trying to sue the police.

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Our home affairs corresponddnt, Guy Smithis here. So what is Thd Met

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saying? Sources say potentially both

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documents were shredded but one of them has been found on a colputer

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database. It appears The Met are not overly concerned because thd

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intelligence was backed up `nd not lost. They were aware of thd

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suspected corrupt officers `nd at least one of them has been

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convicted. Do we know if thhs information was given to thd review

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into the Stephen Lawrence mtrder investigation? They say, we made

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every effort possible to supply all of the relevant records to the

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independent review. To supply details of every anti`corruption

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investigation in the 1990s would have been impossible. Does this show

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their record`keeping was poor? It is a graphic example the mess the

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record`keeping was in. The recent independent review described it as

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chaotic. Multiple filing systems, records were in complete and files

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were destroyed. I understand The Met have been ringing round ex`officers

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trying to find out what thex knew about the shredding. It shows The

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Met has perhaps lost control of this. The most damaging thing is the

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drip effect and what else whll emerge. The problem for us `nd the

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public now is they may never know the true extent of corruption in The

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Met during the 1990s. Many thanks. Three female tourists have suffered

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serious head and facial injtries after they were attacked in their

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hotel room by a man with a hammer. It happened in a bedroom at the

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Cumberland Hotel in Marble @rch where the women and three children

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were sleeping in adjoining rooms. One woman's in a critical condition.

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The Prime Minister today pahd tribute to flood`hit victims who

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helped their communities with the clean`up operation. Among those

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invited to Downing Street w`s Alison Griffiths who was pivotal to the

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relief effort in Sunbury. D`vid Cameron told her he would look into

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her concerns about lack of dredging in the River Thames.

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That's it from me, but I'll hand you over to Wendy for the weathdr.

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Goodnight. Good evening. We had some lhvely

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whether to end the day during the rush hour. That has cleared towards

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the east. It is becoming drher and brighter from now on. That starts

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overnight, the drier bit at least. Clear skies, bits and pieces of

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patchy cloud. A bit of a brdeze blowing and temperatures will fall

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down to four degrees outsidd of London to something like six or

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seven degrees in urban areas. We may have a few showers tomorrow, but

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there will be plenty of sunshine and it will be bright and breezx

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throughout and temperatures will be average for the time of year,

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getting up to around 14 degrees Unsettled conditions through the

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next few days. A bit of rain around on Friday but with more on that I

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will hand you over to Nina Ridge. The weekend brought some mild

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nights. Signs of a change across Northern Ireland and Scotland, but

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for England and Wales many places began the day at ten to 13

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