Met Apologise 36 years late

36 Years Late Met Apologise for Failings in the Daniel Morgan Murder Case

Daniel Morgan, a private detective, was found dead in a south London pub car park on 10 March 1987, in circumstances that have given rise to speculation that he may have been killed because he was about to reveal police corruption. No one has been convicted of his murder.

Over the 36 years since the murder, Daniel’s family have had to endure nine commissioners of the Metropolitan police, culminating in the present incumbent, Sir Mark Rowley. For Daniel’s family, each of these predecessors of the present commissioner came to represent the consistent failure of courage and integrity among the highest ranks in the Met, in the face of the corruption and criminality that has served to protect those responsible for the murder from justice.

No family should have to go through what this family have suffered. No family should have to find, as they did, their confidence betrayed by those to whom we should be able to turn for help. No family should be cut adrift as they were – and left to fend for themselves in the face of the most serious criminality imaginable. No family should have to bear the immense cost they have paid in terms of their health – mental and physical. Above all, no family should be left to find, as they have, that they are no longer able to place their trust in the police, the state or any other form of authority.

Raju Bhatt, Guardian, https://tinyurl.com/2p88m8jz