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Stephen Lawrence murder trial begins at Old Bailey

Exclusive: New evidence links the murders of Stephen Lawrence and a private investigator
Explosive new evidence linking the two darkest chapters in Scotland Yard's modern history can be revealed today by The Independent on Sunday, heaping fresh pressure on the position of the current Met Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe.

Leaked documents reveal a police officer accused of corruption in the Stephen Lawrence case has also been closely linked to one of the prime suspects in the unsolved murder of Daniel Morgan, a private investigator found with an axe embedded in his skull in 1987.

Use of covert police listening devices suggests that a suspect in Morgan's murder knew John Davidson, a detective sergeant who is alleged to have confessed to a corrupt relationship with the father of David Norris, one of the racist gang who stabbed Lawrence to death in 1993.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...rence-and-a-private-investigator-9179104.html
 
xenon said:
I can't remember quite how TBH but this also has connections to the News of the World stuff. It was brought up in that mega thread.
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Daniel Morgan's partner in his private detective business was Jonathan Rees. Following his killing, local cop Sid Fillery - a friend and associate of Rees - was briefly on the murder team. He subsequently left the police and joined Rees in the detective agency, replacing Morgan.

That private detective agency, Southern Investigations, was used by News International for various tasks. Rees was at one point being paid £150,000 per year by NI.

Rees also shared a business address with Alex Marunchak (at various times a senior NI executive, the editor of the Irish NOTW, and a freelance Ukrainian translator for the police), who with NOTW News Editor Greg Miskiw set up Abbeycover (which also shared Southern Investigations' address).

Rees was implicated in Marunchak's plot to hack into the computer of former British Army intelligence officer Ian Hurst AKA ‘Martin Ingram’ (in relation to the long-term, high level Provisional IRA mole ‘Stakeknife’).

Etc, etc, etc.

Search on the previous Daniel Morgan threads; Dave Courtney; Operation Nigeria; Untouchables by Michael Gillard & Laurie Flynn.
 
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Belushi said:
the reason the Met were so keen to put their hands up to institutional racism over the Lawrence case was because they were keen to cover up the stench of corruption.
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You were bang on the money with that. South East Regional Crime squad seem to have essentially operated as gangsters in uniform. Absolutely sickening levels of corruption all through the met - the culture of cover up, distortion and lieing is absolutely endemic and institutionalised and has been for years. Confirms all the worst fears about the cops. These cunts should behind bars.


Also shows up Detective boy up for the shill he was all along.
 
DaveCinzano said:
The consistently-interesting Brown Moses has a blog post from his regular correspondent on the topic up today, taking into account the Ellison shitstorm:

http://brown-moses-hackgate.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/the-ellison-review-and-daniel-morgan.html
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Brown Moses' correspondent notes that the Ellison Review identified that whilst the original scoping document ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ still existed, the intelligence product and analysis that came out of the anti-corruption programme it led to, Operation Othona (which in turn led to the establishment of CIBIC), could not be found by MPS. (See Ellison Review part 1 pp106-111)

Roy Clark - whom readers of Untouchables will remember well, having started out at Stokey during Jackpot before progressing to CO11 alongside Grieve, then setting up Othona, CIB3 etc - is said by Ellison to be stunned to hear of the apparent disappearance of this prime intell:

I’d be shocked if it doesn’t exist... there would be no good reason to get rid of it... it was gold dust stuff. It was really gold dust... when I left it existed because there were still jobs sparking off of it.To the best of my recall, when I attended that debriefing [2004] it was still there then and the idea was not to wrap the thing up and put it away, because I would have been most vociferous if that was the idea and I am on record as saying that the failure of the police service is lack of long-term consistency... It was there not to be closed down, to roll on... How you can go to those lengths and spend all that money and it is not there, I am just amazed.
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And guess where the finger starts pointing?

[Clark] added that it might have “morphed” into something else, but should definitely still exist and that it had been left in the hands of Andy Hayman, Detective Superintendent Bob Quick, David Wood and John Yates.
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Stephen Lawrence exclusive: Links between 'corrupt' officer on investigation and racist murder gang were suppressed to protect Met chief

Intelligence that linked a suspected corrupt police officer on the Stephen Lawrence murder investigation to the gangster father of one of the prime suspects was apparently suppressed to protect the then Metropolitan Police Commissioner.

A memo written in 2000 by a Met Police lawyer suggests the force suppressed information that John Davidson, a detective sergeant on the original botched investigation, was connected to the father of David Norris, one of the racist gang who stabbed Stephen Lawrence to death in 1993.

The file goes on to warn a police officer who was preparing to leak information on the Lawrence case to a journalist that “disclosures relevant to DS Davidson’s contact with the Norris family could have an adverse effect on the Commissioner’s position in the on-going High Court action by Mr and Mrs Lawrence”.

At the time, Doreen and Neville Lawrence were suing Scotland Yard for misfeasance in public office under the then Commissioner Lord Stevens following years of appalling police treatment following the death of their son.

The memo from David Hamilton of the Met’s directorate of legal services corroborates incendiary claims by police “supergrass” Neil Putnam. He has always maintained he told the Met in 1998 of the alleged corrupt relationship between Davidson and Clifford Norris right in the middle of a judicial inquiry into the appalling case.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-lawrence-murder-gang-suppressed-9180093.html
 
Nice mention for our old friend Keith Hunter too - a near neighbour of a number of other noteworthy (ex) coppers, including short-tempered house husband Simon Harwood.
 
The met police having corrupt officers and those in senior position trying to cover up what goes on, why the fuck is anyone surprised?

As a separate burning personal issue I would like to know why taxpayers have to pay the pensions of those clearly dodgy cops, who choose to resign as opposed to being sacked for their dodgy conduct. This has been going on for years and is a convenient cover up statistically for the Metropolitan Police of the numbers of dodgy and corrupt officers who are/were in the police service.

I personally know of one such ex detective who is in prison for money laundering on behalf of organised crime gangs based in south east London and he still collects a pension paid for by the tax payer. At the time he resigned rather than be sacked as it protected his pension.

I'd bet my life that the officer in question in the Lawrence case is on a nice pension and will keep it.

Incidentally what happened to Detective boy?
 
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my sister was asking why they were bringing this up again after 20 years and that everyone should just forget about it :facepalm:
 
i hope you replied something like "because that's how long it can sometimes take for evidence of the truth to come out when it is being hidden and resisted by those in positions of power"
and declassified papers etc
 
Maybe we should have a new thread about corruption at the met? There is a lot of crossover between the lawrence, news international, spy cops and daniel morgan threads - with a lot of the same cops involved at beat level and right at the top.

This is one area where something like urban is really useful - and its not something that the media seem too keen to do.

Anyone with too much time on their hands want to pull the relevant bits together?
 
ddraig said:
i hope you replied something like "because that's how long it can sometimes take for evidence of the truth to come out when it is being hidden and resisted by those in positions of power"
and declassified papers etc
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yeah that's what i said,wasn't up for a big fight though :facepalm:
 
DaveCinzano said:
Daniel Morgan's partner in his private detective business was Jonathan Rees. Following his killing, local cop Sid Fillery - a friend and associate of Rees - was briefly on the murder team. He subsequently left the police and joined Rees in the detective agency, replacing Morgan.

That private detective agency, Southern Investigations, was used by News International for various tasks. Rees was at one point being paid £150,000 per year by NI.

Rees also shared a business address with Alex Marunchak (at various times a senior NI executive, the editor of the Irish NOTW, and a freelance Ukrainian translator for the police), who with NOTW News Editor Greg Miskiw set up Abbeycover (which also shared Southern Investigations' address).

Rees was implicated in Marunchak's plot to hack into the computer of former British Army intelligence officer Ian Hurst AKA ‘Martin Ingram’ (in relation to the long-term, high level Provisional IRA mole ‘Stakeknife’).

Etc, etc, etc.

Search on the previous Daniel Morgan threads; Dave Courtney; Operation Nigeria; Untouchables by Michael Gillard & Laurie Flynn.
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All sorts of direct connections between people are being made in the court case going on at the moment.

It's the first time a current national newspaper editor - Gary Jones of the Daily Express - has been accused of direct involvement in hacking.

In the 1990s Jones was at the New Of The World (then under Piers Morgan), before moving to the Mirror and becoming investigations editor (again under Morgan). He then went to the People in 2007, rose to deputy editor, before then taking on additional senior roles at the Sunday Mirror and being made editor in 2016. A couple of years later he was moved by his bosses to the top job at the Express.

Jones is accused by self-confessed hacker Graham Johnson (himself formerly of the Sunday Mirror) of being balls-deep in phonehacking and of being the Mirror's pointman with Southern Investigations for the purpose of commissioning hacking and other activities. Johnson also claims that Jones worked closely with Miskiw at the NOTW in the procurement of hacking-sourced material via private investigators.

Previously Jones had been accused - whilst at the Mirror whilst working for Morgan - of being one of Southern Investigations' three most important newspaper contacts, alongside Doug Kempster of the Sunday Mirror, and Marunchak at the Screws.

www.theguardian.com

Daily Express editor Gary Jones was ‘involved in phone hacking’, court hears

Current editor was prolific user of private investigators while working at News of the World and Daily Mirror, ex-reporter claims
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
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I'm sure I saw Morgan being accused of hacking by someone in an interview and challenging him to say it again and he'd sue him. I wonder whether he'd be so ready with the challenge now :)
 
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