Met corruption and Britain’s biggest unsolved crime
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Daniel Morgan, a young private investigator, was murdered in a carpark in 1987. His killer has never been brought to justice.
Three and a half decades on the Met Police have discovered a "locked file of documents" that were never handed over to the inquiry looking into police failures.
Today on The News Agents we ask London Mayor his response to what just happened, whether the police should be trusted with new powers and whether corruption lies at the heart of what went wrong.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:34.9 | It's just over six weeks now since a private detective called Daniel Morgan was found dead in a car park of a pub in South London. It was gruesome. He'd been killed with an axe. |
| 0:40.2 | That was from BBC Crime Watch in April of 1987. |
| 0:46.1 | It is a murder, a crime that still has not been solved. |
| 0:50.4 | It is the most investigated crime in British history. And overnight it emerged that documents relating to that murder had just miraculously |
| 0:57.5 | appeared somewhere in New Scotland Yard, the home of the metropolitan police. And the reason that this |
| 1:04.8 | matters is that part of the investigations, the many investigations that have taken place into this |
| 1:10.5 | murder have focused on the |
| 1:12.3 | police's role. The independent panel inquiry into Daniel Morgan's murder found that the police |
| 1:20.1 | had acted in a way that could be characterized as being institutionally corrupt in trying to block |
| 1:27.2 | information about how they handled it. |
| 1:30.1 | And lo and behold, these documents have now emerged. |
| 1:33.4 | Today, we'll be talking through the consequences of what that means for the Met Police, |
| 1:39.3 | for Daniel Morgan's family, for Londoners who want to trust in the police force that runs this city. |
| 1:46.3 | And we'll be talking to the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, about his response to what he's just |
| 1:52.0 | learned. |
| 1:52.6 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:57.3 | The news agents. |
| 1:59.2 | It's Emily. |
| 2:00.0 | And it's Lewis. |
| 2:01.1 | And in terms of the Daniel Morgan murder, |
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