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The murder of Daniel Morgan has never been solved. The Welsh | 0:00:03 | 0:00:09 | |
private investigator was killed with an axe in a pub car park. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:15 | |
very sorry, but he's dead. I said, "What do you mean he's dead." I | 0:00:15 | 0:00:19 | |
just lost the plot then. Despite five police investigations, costing | 0:00:19 | 0:00:24 | |
millions, no-one's ever been convicted. Tonight, allegations of | 0:00:24 | 0:00:27 | |
police corruption, links to the News Of The World scandal and | 0:00:27 | 0:00:31 | |
claims by those close to the murder hunt that they were targeted. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:39 | |
The idea that Your personal safety at home has been undermined in that | 0:00:39 | 0:00:44 | |
way is quite terrifying. For 24 years, Daniel's family have fought | 0:00:44 | 0:00:49 | |
for justice. We're still carrying his coffin | 0:00:49 | 0:00:59 | |
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around, carrying him on our shoulders. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:03 | |
I shouldn't be here today. It should have never happened in the | 0:01:03 | 0:01:10 | |
first place. The prosecution should have never even been started. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:16 | |
Jonathan Rees and two other men walk free from court in March this | 0:01:16 | 0:01:20 | |
year. They were charged with murdering Daniel Morgan. They were | 0:01:20 | 0:01:25 | |
each found not guilty. A cloud of suspicion had hung over | 0:01:25 | 0:01:31 | |
Jonathan Rees and the two other men since 1987. All deny involvement in | 0:01:31 | 0:01:40 | |
Daniel's murder. 24 years have passed since Daniel Morgan was | 0:01:40 | 0:01:45 | |
killed in this pub car park. Since then events have unfolded like the | 0:01:45 | 0:01:50 | |
pages of a thriller. Behind the twists and turns, there lies the | 0:01:50 | 0:01:54 | |
heart ache of a family, still grieving the loss of a father, a | 0:01:54 | 0:02:04 | |
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Daniel's mother Isobel is now 83. But she won't give up her fight for | 0:02:07 | 0:02:14 | |
justice. I've got to do it. It's just because we've come almost, you | 0:02:14 | 0:02:21 | |
know, we've been 25 years nearly on this. It's been so haphazard, so | 0:02:21 | 0:02:27 | |
awful and so traumatic. Isobel's leaving her home in Hay-on-Wye for | 0:02:27 | 0:02:30 | |
a trip to London. She's hoping to get a meeting with the Home | 0:02:30 | 0:02:37 | |
Secretary, Theresa May. It's a trip she's made countless times. I don't | 0:02:37 | 0:02:42 | |
like going to London because the only time I've been, I mean it must | 0:02:42 | 0:02:48 | |
be a couple of hundred times, at least, it's on these missions, you | 0:02:48 | 0:02:57 | |
know. I would just love to one day, to go to London and go to a shop. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:07 | |
It doesn't happen. This trip to the Home Office could signify the last | 0:03:07 | 0:03:12 | |
chance of justice for Daniel. Home Secretary Theresa May has the four | 0:03:12 | 0:03:16 | |
grant a judicial inquiry into the murder. Isobel feels it's the only | 0:03:16 | 0:03:24 | |
way the truth will come out now. Today might just be a turning point. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:30 | |
I mean, nothing will bring Daniel back, but there's so much that can | 0:03:30 | 0:03:37 | |
be revealed. The trip is just the latest leg in Isobel's remarkable | 0:03:37 | 0:03:44 | |
journey, but will she be able to persuade the Home Secretary? Daniel | 0:03:44 | 0:03:54 | |
Morgan was brought up in Llanfrechfa near Cwmbran in Gwent. | 0:03:54 | 0:04:00 | |
You're the eldest? Yeah. Jane is the youngest. Daniel's brother | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
Alastair and his sister Jane have returned to the family home in | 0:04:03 | 0:04:10 | |
South Wales for the first time in years. What sort of little boy was | 0:04:10 | 0:04:16 | |
he? Oh, always looking for a buck wasn't he. He used to deliver the | 0:04:16 | 0:04:21 | |
leaflets for the shop. He would see a battery or car pattery in | 0:04:21 | 0:04:24 | |
somebody's guardened and knock on the door and ask if he could have | 0:04:24 | 0:04:31 | |
We haven't been crying, which is strange. I feel that's strange. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
We're laughing about the happy times, not thinking about... | 0:04:34 | 0:04:38 | |
the funny things that happen. the boys setting fire to the hedge | 0:04:38 | 0:04:46 | |
and my father's fury, you know. Daniel spent his childhood | 0:04:46 | 0:04:51 | |
exploring the local countryside. He married a Scottish girl Iris. They | 0:04:51 | 0:04:54 | |
had two children, Sarah and Daniel. He found work as a private | 0:04:54 | 0:04:59 | |
detective. When it started, he thought it could be an interesting | 0:04:59 | 0:05:06 | |
job. It was something different. Not a run of the mill, boring job. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:14 | |
So he engaged with that. Daniel set up his own detective agency. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:18 | |
Business was good and he went into partnership with Jonathan Rees. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:22 | |
Their company Southern Investigations was based at these | 0:05:22 | 0:05:25 | |
offices in south London. The pair worked together for six | 0:05:25 | 0:05:35 | |
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years. But on the 10th March 1987, everything changed. Daniel left a | 0:05:37 | 0:05:42 | |
meeting with Jonathan Rees at this pub in south London. It was the | 0:05:42 | 0:05:46 | |
last time the Welshman was seen alive. His body was discovered in | 0:05:46 | 0:05:55 | |
the car park. There was an axe embedded in his head. It was about | 0:05:55 | 0:06:05 | |
4am and I was, my telephone rang. He said, "I'm an officer in the | 0:06:05 | 0:06:09 | |
Metropolitan Police." What are you ringing me up for?" I'm very sorry, | 0:06:09 | 0:06:13 | |
but he's dead." I thought, what do you mean he's dead? I just lost the | 0:06:14 | 0:06:19 | |
plot then. I said, well, what's happened to him. Please tell me | 0:06:19 | 0:06:25 | |
what has happened? Has he been run over? "I'm afraid I'm not in a | 0:06:25 | 0:06:32 | |
position to tell you," he said. I can't tell you what it was like. I | 0:06:32 | 0:06:40 | |
was absolutely devastated. I think I was screaming, I don't know. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:44 | |
Speculation about the motive was rife. Daniel's Rolex watch had been | 0:06:45 | 0:06:50 | |
stolen. But more than �1,000 in cash was still in his jacket. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:56 | |
Police believe the nature of the attack, the axe left in Daniel's | 0:06:56 | 0:07:06 | |
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face, was personal. My whole being seemed to freeze. It was an | 0:07:11 | 0:07:18 | |
unbelievable experience. I miss him terribly. He shouldn't have died | 0:07:18 | 0:07:25 | |
like that. That was wicked. Daniel's line of work as a private | 0:07:25 | 0:07:29 | |
investigator did bring him into conflict with people. Police | 0:07:29 | 0:07:33 | |
interviewed countless witnesses who might have harboured a grudge, but | 0:07:33 | 0:07:40 | |
who would want him dead and why remained a mystery. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:44 | |
Then detectives discovered that the relationship between Daniel and his | 0:07:44 | 0:07:49 | |
business partner, Jonathan Rees, had become strained. A year before | 0:07:49 | 0:07:53 | |
the murder, Rees agreed to provide security at a car auction business. | 0:07:53 | 0:08:00 | |
Whilst trying to bank the firm's takings, Rees was robbed of �18,000. | 0:08:00 | 0:08:05 | |
Things got worse. The car auction firm was now suing Jonathan Rees | 0:08:05 | 0:08:12 | |
and Daniel over the missing money. Peter Newby was the office manager | 0:08:12 | 0:08:14 | |
at Southern Investigations. He remembers the robbery causing | 0:08:14 | 0:08:24 | |
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tension. I think he was causing Danny more concern than it was John. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:36 | |
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Danny was more concerned with keeping an eye on the money side. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:43 | |
John's attitude was we're in business, this job could make a | 0:08:43 | 0:08:49 | |
killing. Let's go for it. Daniel also spoke to his brother Alastair | 0:08:49 | 0:08:53 | |
about concerns over his business relationship with Jonathan Rees. | 0:08:53 | 0:09:03 | |
Initially it seemed fine, you know? Then, Dan would say things like, | 0:09:03 | 0:09:07 | |
"He's lazy. He spends all his day in the pub. I'm driving all around | 0:09:07 | 0:09:14 | |
the country and he's just propping up the bar with his police friends. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:19 | |
"Rees spent a lot of time with the local police. Dan didn't have a lot | 0:09:19 | 0:09:25 | |
of time for the police. He thought they were, he didn't hold them in | 0:09:25 | 0:09:31 | |
high regard. The one thing they could not agree on and that was to | 0:09:31 | 0:09:41 | |
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agree. Daniel was sadly wary of John. How do you know that? He told | 0:09:41 | 0:09:51 | |
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me once. He said, "Peter, never make a decision in this office that | 0:09:52 | 0:10:00 | |
is going to affect this company, unless you talk to me first." | 0:10:00 | 0:10:04 | |
Jonathan Rees told us he and Daniel Morgan were different characters | 0:10:04 | 0:10:08 | |
and their respective strengths were complementary in the business. They | 0:10:08 | 0:10:18 | |
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had arguments from time to time, but they were friends. The hunt for | 0:10:18 | 0:10:23 | |
Daniel's killer continued. Officers discovered the policeman who took | 0:10:23 | 0:10:28 | |
Jonathan Rees's statement the day after murder was one of his friends. | 0:10:29 | 0:10:35 | |
Detective sergeant Sid Fillery was Rees's drinking pal. Three weeks | 0:10:35 | 0:10:40 | |
after the murder, DS Fillery was arrested, together with Daniel's | 0:10:40 | 0:10:45 | |
business partner Jonathan Rees, two other police officers and Rees's | 0:10:46 | 0:10:48 | |
two brothers-in-law. They were all released without charge the same | 0:10:48 | 0:10:54 | |
day. With the police investigation | 0:10:54 | 0:10:58 | |
stalling, they turned to Crimewatch for help. The police describe the | 0:10:58 | 0:11:03 | |
case as a sticker, it's one they just can't solve. You're trying to | 0:11:03 | 0:11:07 | |
find... Detectives appealed for information about the murder weapon. | 0:11:07 | 0:11:11 | |
It's a Chinese axe. They're imported into this country in the | 0:11:11 | 0:11:17 | |
thousands. What is more significant is the way it's taped. It's got two | 0:11:17 | 0:11:26 | |
elastoplasts on the handle. To be gripped like that? That's right. To | 0:11:26 | 0:11:29 | |
assist the grip or stop the perspiration from somebody's hands | 0:11:29 | 0:11:33 | |
allowing it to slip. Crimewatch failed to provide a breakthrough. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:37 | |
The man leading the murder hunt was concerned at the behaviour of some | 0:11:37 | 0:11:41 | |
officers in south London. He asked the Met for an outside force to | 0:11:41 | 0:11:48 | |
take over the investigation. His request was declined. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:52 | |
Further allegations of tensions between Daniel and his business | 0:11:52 | 0:11:57 | |
partner, Jonathan Rees, were made during the inquest into Daniel's | 0:11:57 | 0:12:01 | |
death. Kevin Lennon worked as a book keeper for Southern | 0:12:01 | 0:12:05 | |
Investigations. He claimed that Rees wanted to kill Daniel. This is | 0:12:05 | 0:12:10 | |
what he told the Coroners' Court. Jonathan Rees said again to me that | 0:12:10 | 0:12:15 | |
he wanted Daniel Morgan killed. Jonathan Rees told me that Sid | 0:12:15 | 0:12:21 | |
Fillery would be joining the firm after Daniel's murder. Jonathan | 0:12:21 | 0:12:25 | |
Rees said, "I've the perfect solution for Daniel's murder. My | 0:12:25 | 0:12:32 | |
mates at Catford nick are going to arrange it." Lennon's evidence to | 0:12:32 | 0:12:39 | |
the inquest shocked Daniel's family. I wanted to shout out, "Oh, my God, | 0:12:39 | 0:12:47 | |
this is filthy. This is corrupt ." I thought our suspicions are | 0:12:47 | 0:12:57 | |
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confirmed. Our worst fears are true. However the impact of Kevin | 0:12:58 | 0:13:01 | |
Lennon's evidence to the inquest saying that Rees wanted to kill | 0:13:02 | 0:13:08 | |
Daniel was undermined, as it was uncorroborated. His credibility was | 0:13:08 | 0:13:11 | |
also questioned, when Jonathan Rees not only denied wanting to kill | 0:13:11 | 0:13:17 | |
Daniel, but he told the inquest Lennon made it up to carry favour | 0:13:17 | 0:13:24 | |
with the police as he was facing fraud charges. It later emerged | 0:13:25 | 0:13:29 | |
detective sergeant Sid Fillery had indeed left the police force and | 0:13:29 | 0:13:34 | |
joined Southern Investigations with Jonathan Rees. First of all, we | 0:13:34 | 0:13:39 | |
were obviously shocked that when Fillery was arrested, but then | 0:13:39 | 0:13:43 | |
months went by, months and months and months, and I was in contact | 0:13:43 | 0:13:49 | |
with the police regularly, you know, every week or couple of days. At | 0:13:49 | 0:13:56 | |
regular intervals I was ringing them. You'd get, sort of, standard | 0:13:57 | 0:14:01 | |
responses "we are pursuing a number of lines of inquiry." The family | 0:14:01 | 0:14:06 | |
was demanding answers. 15 months after Daniel's murder the Met | 0:14:06 | 0:14:10 | |
finally asked an outside force to investigate. As a result of this | 0:14:10 | 0:14:14 | |
inquiry by Hampshire Police, Jonathan Rees was arrested a second | 0:14:14 | 0:14:19 | |
time on suspicion of murder. This time, he was charged. But three | 0:14:19 | 0:14:23 | |
months later, it was dropped again on the grounds of insufficient | 0:14:23 | 0:14:33 | |
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evidence. In 1998, the Met launched a third investigation, 11 years | 0:14:33 | 0:14:37 | |
after Daniel's murder, detectives decided to bug the new offices of | 0:14:37 | 0:14:47 | |
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Police felt Operation Nigeria using covert surveillance was the best | 0:14:56 | 0:15:03 | |
way to gather evidence. What I would like at the end of the day... | 0:15:03 | 0:15:07 | |
An intelligence report says "Fillery and Rees are alert and | 0:15:07 | 0:15:11 | |
have current knowledge of investigative methods and | 0:15:11 | 0:15:15 | |
techniques. In addition, such is their level of access within the | 0:15:15 | 0:15:19 | |
Police Service, that the threat of compromise to any conventional | 0:15:19 | 0:15:26 | |
investigation is constant." But in another dramatic twist, the bugging | 0:15:26 | 0:15:31 | |
operation was stopped. Officers overheard a plot to plant cocaine | 0:15:31 | 0:15:37 | |
on a woman. Rees was hired by a man to discredit his wife during a | 0:15:37 | 0:15:40 | |
child custody battle. Rees arranged for cocaine to be planted in her | 0:15:40 | 0:15:50 | |
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car. Journalist Graeme Maclagan followed the case for years. It was | 0:15:54 | 0:15:58 | |
clear that Rees was going to plant drugs on her. There was a crime | 0:15:58 | 0:16:03 | |
being committed an the police were listening to the tape and realising | 0:16:03 | 0:16:08 | |
there was a crime and therefore, they had to act. Jonathan Rees was | 0:16:09 | 0:16:12 | |
jailed for seven years for the cocaine plot. A corrupt police | 0:16:12 | 0:16:17 | |
officer who helped him was jailed for four years. But the bugging | 0:16:17 | 0:16:21 | |
operation had failed to provide any evidence that Rees or his | 0:16:21 | 0:16:25 | |
associates were involved in Daniel's murder. | 0:16:25 | 0:16:28 | |
The covert surveillance did, however, reveal information about | 0:16:28 | 0:16:33 | |
the work of Southern Investigations. It showed Rees had a relationship | 0:16:33 | 0:16:37 | |
with a number of journalists. He was feeding stories to the tabloids | 0:16:37 | 0:16:42 | |
and in particular, the News Of The World. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:48 | |
This was for thousands of pounds. Rees was surrounded by corrupt | 0:16:48 | 0:16:54 | |
officers, corrupt ex-officers and officers prepared to pass him | 0:16:54 | 0:17:00 | |
information. This would be information that they'd gathered on | 0:17:00 | 0:17:06 | |
criminals and perhaps also on celebrities. Rees would get this | 0:17:06 | 0:17:13 | |
information, develop it to an extent and sell it to newspapers. | 0:17:13 | 0:17:15 | |
Particularly the tabloid newspapers and particularly the News Of The | 0:17:15 | 0:17:24 | |
World. Another former book keeper at southern investigations, in an | 0:17:24 | 0:17:29 | |
interview with BBC Radio, explains the extent of the business with the | 0:17:29 | 0:17:37 | |
The News Of The World was the biggest customer. We used to | 0:17:37 | 0:17:41 | |
invoice out maybe 600 invoices a month. They were hand delivered to | 0:17:41 | 0:17:47 | |
a man at the News Of The World. We've seen a copy of a witness | 0:17:47 | 0:17:52 | |
statement to police. It claims that Daniel Morgan was planning to sell | 0:17:52 | 0:18:01 | |
a story to a newspaper for �40,000. The paper was the News Of The World. | 0:18:01 | 0:18:04 | |
Two days before his murder, he had said that he was dealing with an | 0:18:04 | 0:18:08 | |
issue of police corruption. He didn't trust anybody in the police | 0:18:08 | 0:18:15 | |
to deal with it. So, I would think, well, who else can deal with it? | 0:18:15 | 0:18:20 | |
Then obviously the media is the next choice, isn't it? Do you have | 0:18:20 | 0:18:26 | |
any idea what that story might have been? The story involved police in | 0:18:26 | 0:18:31 | |
concert with the underworld and drugs, importation and dealing. In | 0:18:31 | 0:18:38 | |
particular cocaine. In a separate development, the News Of The World | 0:18:38 | 0:18:41 | |
would come to the attention of detectives investigating the murder | 0:18:41 | 0:18:48 | |
of Daniel Morgan again. In 2002, the police turned to Crimewatch | 0:18:48 | 0:18:53 | |
once more. We acknowledge there were difficulties in the early | 0:18:53 | 0:18:57 | |
stages of this investigation. But I'm here tonight to re-investigate | 0:18:57 | 0:19:01 | |
it with the advantage of 15 years' knowledge. A fourth murder inquiry | 0:19:01 | 0:19:05 | |
was under way, headed up by detective Chief Superintendent | 0:19:05 | 0:19:09 | |
Jimmy Cook. Co-incidentally, his wife was a | 0:19:09 | 0:19:17 | |
presenter on the programme. You can call us anonymously if you want. | 0:19:17 | 0:19:22 | |
The day after the programme was broadcast, detective Chief | 0:19:22 | 0:19:27 | |
Superintendent Cooke was told there was intelligence suggesting that | 0:19:27 | 0:19:30 | |
suspects in the Daniel Morgan murder case were trying to | 0:19:30 | 0:19:37 | |
discredit him. It was a development that affected his whole family. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:40 | |
were convinced and the Met were convince today was a serious threat, | 0:19:40 | 0:19:45 | |
sufficient enough for us to be put nrt witness protection programme. | 0:19:45 | 0:19:50 | |
We had officers allocated to us to give us assistance. Our security at | 0:19:50 | 0:19:56 | |
home was beefed up. My whole life was destabilised. It was like | 0:19:56 | 0:20:02 | |
somebody put a bomb underneath my sense of security. Our mail was | 0:20:02 | 0:20:06 | |
tampered with and on several occasions, vans were seen in the | 0:20:06 | 0:20:12 | |
area. David was followed. And I saw a van keeping surveillance on our | 0:20:12 | 0:20:20 | |
house. On one occasion, there was a brake light broken on something | 0:20:20 | 0:20:24 | |
similar, on one of the vans. He arranged to have it stopped by | 0:20:24 | 0:20:33 | |
local uniformed police officers in Surrey. They discovered that it was | 0:20:33 | 0:20:38 | |
being driven and occupied by two employees of News International, | 0:20:38 | 0:20:48 | |
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the News Of The World. This was a huge shock. It dominates your life. | 0:20:49 | 0:20:56 | |
It, everything you do, everywhere you go is done with one eye over | 0:20:56 | 0:21:01 | |
your shoulder. Former News Of The World editor, Rebekah Brooks, was | 0:21:01 | 0:21:07 | |
asked about the surveillance of DCS Cook's family. She's understood to | 0:21:07 | 0:21:10 | |
have claimed the paper was investigating whether Jacqui Hames | 0:21:10 | 0:21:14 | |
was having an affair with Mr Cook. They were married and had even been | 0:21:14 | 0:21:19 | |
featured in a magazine. These are the pictures that appeared in | 0:21:19 | 0:21:24 | |
Hello! Magazine. They sent them through to us. It just wasn't a | 0:21:24 | 0:21:29 | |
secret. It wasn't as if we'd hidden something away. Clearly that was a | 0:21:29 | 0:21:32 | |
ridiculous explanation and appeared, to me any way, to be one that had | 0:21:32 | 0:21:39 | |
been thought up on the spur-of-the- momentment The MP, Tom Watson, | 0:21:39 | 0:21:42 | |
who's fought to highlight the hacking by the News Of The World, | 0:21:42 | 0:21:48 | |
says the surveillance of the man heading the Morgan murder hunt is | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
concerning. It's a remarkable series of relationships which | 0:21:51 | 0:21:56 | |
suggests there needs to be a deeper inquiry into what was going on at | 0:21:56 | 0:22:02 | |
that time. The Met took no further action, but | 0:22:02 | 0:22:05 | |
Week In, Week Out has uncovered another opportunity the police had | 0:22:05 | 0:22:08 | |
to investigate links between Southern Investigations an the News | 0:22:08 | 0:22:16 | |
Of The World. We've discovered a senior officer on the Daniel Morgan | 0:22:16 | 0:22:19 | |
murder inquiry contacted the anti- corruption command at the | 0:22:19 | 0:22:23 | |
Metropolitan Police. The officer expressed concern that attempts | 0:22:23 | 0:22:30 | |
were being made to discredit his boss, Jimmy Cook. He asked the Met | 0:22:30 | 0:22:34 | |
to investigate the -- Dave Cook. He asked the Met to investigate the | 0:22:34 | 0:22:39 | |
links to Southern Investigations. The Met did nothing. There are | 0:22:39 | 0:22:43 | |
obviously no-go areas in that relationship in terms of | 0:22:43 | 0:22:47 | |
investigation, insight. There are places where people are not allowed | 0:22:47 | 0:22:51 | |
to look. I'm afraid this is more reputational harm for the | 0:22:51 | 0:22:58 | |
Metropolitan Police in London. asked the Metropolitan Police for | 0:22:58 | 0:23:06 | |
an interview. They declined and refused to make any comments. On | 0:23:06 | 0:23:11 | |
March 10 this year, Daniel Morgan's family came to the Golden Lion pub | 0:23:11 | 0:23:20 | |
car park to remember him. It was the 24th anniversary of his death. | 0:23:20 | 0:23:29 | |
Just about here, I think. A painful day for the family. Just 24 hours | 0:23:29 | 0:23:33 | |
later, the most recent attempt by the Metropolitan Police to bring | 0:23:33 | 0:23:38 | |
the case to trial collapsed. Jonathan Rees and his two brothers- | 0:23:38 | 0:23:47 | |
in-law, Glenn and Garry Vian were cleared of murder. A fourth man | 0:23:47 | 0:23:52 | |
Jimmy Cook was cleared last November. The case against Sid | 0:23:52 | 0:23:55 | |
Fillery was suspended last February. He'd been accused of attempting to | 0:23:55 | 0:24:05 | |
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pervert the course of justice. I feel is devastated, so torn apart, | 0:24:07 | 0:24:16 | |
wounded and I felt soulless. All the effort that had gone in had | 0:24:16 | 0:24:24 | |
crashed around us. All the time and the energy, the mental agony of | 0:24:24 | 0:24:31 | |
keeping it alive a lot of the time. The latest case against the men had | 0:24:31 | 0:24:36 | |
rested on the evidence of Supergrasss. The problem with using | 0:24:37 | 0:24:41 | |
Supergrasss as witnesses is that they themselves are criminals. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:44 | |
Their credibility and motivation for giving evidence is often | 0:24:44 | 0:24:50 | |
questioned. Indeed one man had his prison sentence of 25 years cut to | 0:24:50 | 0:24:57 | |
three years for helping the inquiry. One by one, the testimony of | 0:24:57 | 0:25:02 | |
Supergrass after Supergrass was dropped. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:07 | |
Finally the prosecution decided not to proceed towards a full blown | 0:25:07 | 0:25:10 | |
jury trial, after admitting there were crates of evidence the defence | 0:25:10 | 0:25:16 | |
hadn't seen. The prosecution should have never even been started. So | 0:25:16 | 0:25:20 | |
whether you say it's a good day or not, I shouldn't have been here in | 0:25:20 | 0:25:25 | |
the first place. I'm quite angry about it. The Met now admitted | 0:25:25 | 0:25:28 | |
corruption had hindered the original murder investigation. | 0:25:28 | 0:25:32 | |
is quite apparent that police corruption was a debilitating | 0:25:32 | 0:25:39 | |
factor in that investigation. This was wholey unacceptable. It has | 0:25:39 | 0:25:43 | |
been the conduct of the police from beginning tond on this and the | 0:25:43 | 0:25:51 | |
accumulation of incompetence and corruption that has led to the | 0:25:51 | 0:26:00 | |
final collapse of the trial. Five failed police inquiries, thousands | 0:26:00 | 0:26:07 | |
of witness statements, 40 potential suspects investigated, now Daniel's | 0:26:07 | 0:26:12 | |
family are focusingory energies on getting a judicial inquiry. Last | 0:26:12 | 0:26:15 | |
month Daniel's mother travelled from Mid Wales to join Alastair at | 0:26:15 | 0:26:23 | |
the Home Office. I'll be out in either three hours or two minutes. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:29 | |
OK. She was determined to see Home Secretary, Theresa May, to press | 0:26:29 | 0:26:37 | |
her case for a judicial inquiry. I've come all the way from Wales. | 0:26:37 | 0:26:44 | |
For 25 years we have been trying desperately, my surviving son and | 0:26:44 | 0:26:54 | |
0:26:54 | 0:26:54 | ||
myself, to have justice. No face- to-face meeting, but today the | 0:26:54 | 0:27:00 | |
family were told to -- Theresa May will meet them in early December. | 0:27:00 | 0:27:04 | |
Daniel's murder will also be brought up at the Leveson Inquiry | 0:27:04 | 0:27:11 | |
into hacking an the press. Hainshainshains will give evidence. | 0:27:11 | 0:27:16 | |
-- Jackie Hanes will give evidence. And Tom Watson is supporting the | 0:27:16 | 0:27:20 | |
fight. The Morgan family have not only gone through hell but justice | 0:27:20 | 0:27:25 | |
has not yet been done. The Met themselves have admitted there was | 0:27:25 | 0:27:28 | |
corruption at the heart of the investigation. I think it's really | 0:27:28 | 0:27:36 | |
important that we have a public inquiry to get to the facts. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:41 | |
Alastair is still hoping, searching for answers about the murder, so | 0:27:41 | 0:27:44 | |
that he might finally say goodbye to his brother. We're still | 0:27:44 | 0:27:48 | |
carrying his coffin around, you know, we're still carrying him on | 0:27:48 | 0:27:52 | |
our shoulders. We haven't buried him. He hasn't been laid to rest. | 0:27:52 | 0:27:55 | |
We've buried him in the physical sense, but he's never been laid to | 0:27:55 | 0:28:03 | |
rest. In the truest sense of the word. At 83 years old, Daniel's | 0:28:03 | 0:28:09 |