More Met corruption comes to light - possible re-opening of Stephen Lawrence Inquiry

[ymu]

A secret Scotland Yard report detailing questions about the conduct and integrity of a police chief involved in the Stephen Lawrence case was not given to the public inquiry into the racist killing, the Guardian has learned.

Lawyers for the Lawrence family questioned former commander Ray Adams at the Macpherson inquiry in 1998 about corruption.

But neither the Lawrence family nor the inquiry panel were given a report by Scotland Yard containing the intelligence and findings of an investigation by its anti-corruption command.
The investigation, codenamed Operation Russell, raised questions about Adams's conduct before the Lawrence case, informed sources say, while finding insufficient evidence to bring criminal charges. Adams insists it exonerates him, and told the Guardian he denies any wrongdoing.

Imran Khan, solicitor for Doreen Lawrence, described the revelations as earth-shattering and said they met the legal standard for the home secretary to order a fresh public inquiry into whether the killers of Stephen Lawrence were shielded by corruption. Richard Stone, a member of the Macpherson inquiry panel, said: "If there had been any sort of documentation, we would have leapt on it. If that had been before us, we would have immediately taken it very seriously and acted on it."

Stone said the allegations were serious and the inquiry should have been told about the Met's report. Scotland Yard said it could not establish if the report had been passed to the Macpherson inquiry.

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Very detailed report, including other elements of Adams's criminal career. And a mysteriously timed cop suicide.

Obligatory Murdoch connection:

Adams retired from the Met in 1993 because of a painful back problem. He later got a job as head of security at NDS, a company controlled by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

One senior police source told the Guardian: "Adams's name came up again and again. The Met never did nail him. It's always embarrassing, especially when somebody is at commander level."

He makes it sound like a routine occurrence.

Oh, wait ...

 

[DaveCinzano]

The Ellison Review is due to be published tomorrow...

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...e-murder-report-police-corruption-allegations
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...lleged-police-corruption-to-be-published.html

(Cross-posted)

 

[cemertyone]

WORDS FAIL ME .....Mr Lawrence was in tears on channel 4 news..it simply beggars belief..and yet even at this stage the spokesperson for the Met was quoted as saying""the agent was only interested in identifying violent elements within the Lawrence campaign...jesus wept

 

[goldenecitrone]

Sickening. Still, even the Home Secretary is now virtually admitting that the Met are institutionally corrupt. Fucking scum.

 

[kraepelin]

Sometimes i dont get the hate of the police on this site, but then this stuff comes to light. How could anyone with a soul carry out these orders

 

[brogdale]

Former Metropolitan police commissioner Lord Paul Condon has denied authorising undercover police officers to target the family of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...e-chief-denies-spying-stephen-lawrence-family

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...e-chief-denies-spying-stephen-lawrence-family

Wonder who did, then?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Would it surprise anyone that the officer from the Lawrence murder investigation review team, Richard Walton, is the same Richard Walton who now runs Counter Terrorism Command, which took over Special Branch (which ran SDS)?

That the National Domestic Extremism & Disorder Intelligence Unit - which subsumed Mark Kennedy's NPOIU as well as the pharmaceutical industry-funded NETCU and NDET - is now organised under the purview of CTC, and continues to run the same kind of long-term undercover spy deployments through its own Special Project Teams?

 

[Dan U]

Nothing would surprise me about dibble.

 

[cesare]

Nothing would surprise me about dibble.

Good to have the connections set out so clearly though, eh.

 

[DaveCinzano]

That lovely nice new-style non-racist cop John Grieve, who went in and sorted out the Lawrence murder investigation: balls deep in this shit, and a chum of Bob Lambert, too.

Double-take Andy Hayman? Up to his neck.

Bob ‘Oops I flashed my private papers’ Quick? Him too.

John Yates, who sold his unique skillset to Bahrain's government so they could crush democracy demonstrations? Yes, same deal.

The UN's very own security chief Dave Veness? He's making money off this sort of thing.

 

[brogdale]

Would it surprise anyone that the officer from the Lawrence murder investigation review team, Richard Walton, is the same Richard Walton who now runs Counter Terrorism Command, which took over Special Branch (which ran SDS)?

That the National Domestic Extremism & Disorder Intelligence Unit - which subsumed Mark Kennedy's NPOIU as well as the pharmaceutical industry-funded NETCU and NDET - is now organised under the purview of CTC, and continues to run the same kind of long-term undercover spy deployments through its own Special Project Teams?

Meanwhile, Commander Richard Walton, who was named in the report, has been temporarily moved from his post.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26485664

 

[Pickman's model]

Re SDS records being destroyed. I had a look at the MPS Records Management Manual. Their staff career history is apparently kept for 100 years and it shouldn't be a great ask for MPS HR to work out who was in the SDS as no doubt there's a great big stamp on their files. MPS minutes are also supposed to be kept for 7 years. Now, if they're anything like the large organizations I've worked in, minutes from one department will generally be sent to people from another area - e.g. the minutes of a staff-student consultative committee would be sent to a higher level where all the similar committees minutes ended up. So I would be rather surprised if material from the SDS had not been sent to the Commissioner's office, or at the very least to the head of Special Branch / Counter Terrorism Command. In my view it's bollocks to suppose that every trace of the SDS has been eliminated, it's still there and it all depends which stones the IPCC or any judge-led enquiry decide to look under.

Oh - that records management manual - http://www.met.police.uk/foi/pdfs/other_information/corporate/records_management_manual_2014.pdf

 

[ViolentPanda]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26485664

Well, you know, until he's been whitewashed cleared.

 

[brogdale]

Well, you know, until he's been whitewashed cleared.

Yeah.

I'm surprised that the story of Hogan Howe's attempted resignation, (that May 'rejected') from a few weeks ago has not cropped up again after the publication of Ellison.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Even when it goes tits-up, these arseholes still land on their feet.

There's Dr Robert Lambert MBE and John Grieve CBE with their respective moves into cod-academia; ex-ARNI boss Rod Leeming (who headhunted Mark Kennedy into the private sector after his deployment ended but whilst he was still a police officer); the likes of Dave Veness, Andy Hayman and John Yates, with their variously successful business ventures and board work; Steve Pearl and Anton Setchwell, blamed for the Kennedy shitstorm and dumped as NETCU boss and NCDE, each landed on their feet - with lucrative ‘security’ consultancy for the former, a senior role at a huge (blacklist-linked) construction company...

 

[SikhWarrioR]

Hogan-Howe wasnt he chief constable of the Waffen-SS oopps RUC if so nothing would surprise me anymore especially given the metropolitan police's own record in this sort of thing

 

[DaveCinzano]

Yeah.

I'm surprised that the story of Hogan Howe's attempted resignation, (that May 'rejected') from a few weeks ago has not cropped up again after the publication of Ellison.

Why would May get rid of her scapegoat now?

 

[brogdale]

Even when it goes tits-up, these arseholes still land on their feet.

There's Dr Robert Lambert MBE and John Grieve CBE with their respective moves into cod-academia; ex-ARNI boss Rod Leeming (who headhunted Mark Kennedy into the private sector after his deployment ended but whilst he was still a police officer); the likes of Dave Veness, Andy Hayman and John Yates, with their variously successful business ventures and board work; Steve Pearl and Anton Setchwell, blamed for the Kennedy shitstorm and dumped as NETCU boss and NCDE, each landed on their feet - with lucrative ‘security’ consultancy for the former, a senior role at a huge (blacklist-linked) construction company...

we really must get round to creating that "The List" thread.

 

[brogdale]

Why would May get rid of her scapegoat now?

Oh yeah, just wondering what sub-section of the cluster-fuck that was the 'last straw'?

 

[brogdale]

Would be great to see Daniel Morgan's family get some justice as a by-product of any independent inquiry into the the bent London filth.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...or-daniel-morgan-condemns-police-9177653.html

A chilling conjunction....

The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has appointed an independent panel to look at “police involvement” in the murder of Daniel Morgan, who was killed in a car park amid claims he was about to reveal police malpractice to the News of the World.

Almost certainly unbeknown to Morgan, he was effectively revealing to members of the same criminal gang.

 

[DaveCinzano]

The astonishing thing about this week's ‘revelations’ is that Michael Gillard and Laurie Flynn were investigating all these links fifteen years ago, whilst digging into the Met's so-called ‘Ghost Squad’ and ‘Untouchables’ - two interlinked secret anti-corruption units which played fast and loose with rules of evidence.

After receiving a letter from Andy Hayman which smeared Gillard and Flynn behind their backs, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger told his own journalists to stop pursuing the story. They didn't, choosing instead to work on it in their own time. So Rusbridger sacked them.

They pulled together a huge amount of their findings into a book, which was originally published in 2004, and repressed in 2012.

The same connections between the Daniel Morgan murder, SERCS, Flying Squad, ex-cops-turned-private detectives, the flawed and failed Stephen Lawrence murder investigations, failures to properly supervise undercover operations, inadequate witness debriefing, a complete lack of independent scrutiny, attempts to undermine and subvert community police monitoring groups in Hackney, fit-ups, theft of evidence, corrupt payments... It's all in there.

 

[elbows]

A consequence of the report:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-stevens-stephen-lawrence-inquiry-allegations

Stevens was deputy commissioner of the Met at the time of the public inquiry, which was chaired by Lord Macpherson. As deputy commissioner, he oversaw the anti-corruption command.

An IPCC spokesman said: “We can confirm we are independently investigating Lord (John) Stevens following a referral from the Metropolitan police.”

In a statement, the Met explained more about its referral to the watchdog. A review ordered by the home secretary, Theresa May, into claims of corruption in the Lawrence case found “defects in the level of information that the MPS revealed to the inquiry”. The review was carried out by Mark Ellison QC and reported last March.

The referral followed a complaint to the force on behalf of Neville Lawrence last October.

His lawyer Jocelyn Cockburn wrote to the Met complaining of a “failure of top rank or very senior officers, including but not limited to the the deputy commissioner Sir John Stevens, to provide full, frank and truthful information to the Macpherson Inquiry on the issue of corruption”.

 

[elbows]

Or rather, an eventual consequence after having done nothing without people first having to complain and wait again. And now they can wait some more, for probably not very much to happen. Hope Stevens is made to sweat a bit at least.