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The Murder of Daniel Morgan - tell me more.

DaveCinzano said:
<snip> What much of the reportage around this misses out is that the nature of the material that was not disclosed to the defence included a whole load of stuff accrued by the Met's CIB3 unit, which had a brief to investigate cops suspected of corruption.

The preferred methodology of these 'Untouchables' was to get 'supergrasses' - either career criminals or known corrupt officers - to roll over and name as many names as possible through prolonged periods of debriefing, much of it improperly recorded or entirely unrecorded. Interviews did not take place under caution, even when criminal offences had been admitted by supergrasses, and no lawyers were present. So you can see, there's something of reason there why the Met would not want to fully disclose...

In addition, these cops who supposedly hunted down bent cops were only interested in a certain kind of bent cop; so-called 'noble cause corruption' (that's old-fashioned fit-ups to you and me, whereby evidence would be planted on a suspect if none actually existed) was off limits.

Similarly, whilst these crusaders had a real bee in their bonnet about particular units (like Rigg Approach Flying Squad in East London) or nicks, they strangely appeared to have blind spots for the likes of Tower Bridge and Brixton, despite clear evidence of extensive networks of corruption, in both 'noble cause' and graft varieties. That many of the Untouchables themselves had served at these places is, of course, entirely coincidental.

The nature of being a copper is that you do move around with new postings, with promotions, with secondments to special squads. Certainly Detective Superintendent Chris Jarratt of the CIB Intelligence Cell (known previously as 'the Ghost Squad', a top secret intelligence-gathering unit from which the Untouchables emerged) knew quite a few of the cops - serving and retired - in what Gillard & Flynn drily call "Southern Investigation's circle of influence".

Indeed, through the Operation Nigeria bugs on Southern (which picked up on the conspiracy to plant drugs on a woman so as to put her estranged babyfather in a favourable custody position) it was also learned that there were plans to neutralise Jarratt through his close friendship with Keith Pedder, a copper with whom he worked at both Brixton and Tower Bridge. Oh, and they were both Freemasons (like many Untouchables, it seems).

All through all of this, the Untouchables straight-out denied to the Morgans the family's suspicion that Rees and Fillery were at a nexus of police criminal conspiracy - despite (i) having direct evidence of it, and (ii) discussing it at great length internally. Only the Morgan family's persistence and dogged determination for the truth has kept this going - the cops themselves wanted it shut down long ago.

Even now the Met is at pains to not investigate root corruption - the statement released yesterday makes this explicit: "What the review was not was an investigation into allegations of corruption; nor was it intended to serve the purpose of an investigation for police disciplinary purposes."

As a footnote, let's be reminded of a few things. The report relates to the failed 'Abelard II' Morgan murder inquiry, which followed the failed 'Abelard'. That particular murder investigation was run by DCS Dave Cook, whilst at the same time CIBIC was scrabbling around in the background. Cook was unimpressed by what he learned of both the first investigation, and the Untouchables. He told the Morgan family this. Cook, of course, was the then-husband of CrimeWatch cop Jacqui Hames; both were put under surveillance by the News Of The World, whom you may recall were customers for Southern Investigations' work product, and whose senior reporter/part-time police station interpreter Alex Marunchak had excellent connections with numerous 'colourful' serving & former police officers.

Finally, a quick rollcall...
  • Untouchables boss Roy Clark - ended up a Deputy Assistant Commissioner before moving over the the newly formed Independent Police Complaints Commission(!) as its first Director of Investigations before moving on to a similar role at HM Customs & Revenue
  • Commander Andy "Wandering Hands" Hayman (Keith Vaz's "dodgy geezer") was in charge of CIB3 from 1999-2002 before becoming Norfolk Chief Const and then returning to the Met as Assitant Commissioner, and then a cushy job as a NewsInt columnist
  • John Yates ("of the Yard", latterly Butcher of Bahrain) was a Detective Superintendent at CIB3 and was subsequently made Assistant Commissioner
  • Chris Jarratt was also a Det Supt at CIB3
  • Assistant Commissioner Mike Todd (later the dead Manc top cop), Det Supt Bob Quick, failed Lawrence investigator Cuddly Commander (later DAC) John Grieve, Det Ch Supt Roger Gaspar, DAC Barbara Wilding,... A few familiar names there, right?
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Good stuff ...
 
Morgan's murder pops up in the context of some juicy internal Met investigation documents that have reached the BBC:

Met Flying Squad officers 'plotted corrupt cash van kidnap'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-26874903

That's the story that has everything. Nicely timed for the NI trial. And there's the connection to the failure to prosecute the Lawrence killers...
 
laptop said:
WTF happened to that?
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Ah.

I think it's necessary to read that April 2014 BBC report, which for libel reasons does not name the names named in the leaked Met "intelligence" report, alongside Tom Watson's 2012 summary under Parliamentary privilege (thus libel-proof) and the Twitter feed recommended by Jack of Kent.

But my pizza will get cold if I stop to join the dots. And at least one ex-Met detective would sue the fuck out of u75 if I mentioned the result I haven't arrived at.
 
Dillinger4 said:
Untouchables: Dirty cops, bent justice and racism in Scotland Yard by Michael Gillard (Author), Laurie Flynn is the best book I have read about this. It has a huge amount of information about this case and how it ties in with other cases and the wider picture of ongoing endemic institutional corruption in the Met. I highly recommend it.
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See also the book's thread: http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/untouchables-michael-gillard-laurie-flynn.116408/

Graeme McLagan's similarly-themed Bent Coppers is also worth reading, especially when comparing accounts (the two books cover much of the same material; though McLagan had direct access to the CIB lot, and largely supports the Untouchable/Ghost Squad view, whereas Flynn & Gillard are far more critical of their professionalism, their abilities and their judgements.
 
I would be so happy if the people responsible got their arses busted for this and spent a very long time in the clink.
 
Cop speaks out:

A retired detective has accused News of the World journalists of attempting "to undermine" the police investigation into an axe murder.

Daniel Morgan, a private investigator, was killed in 1987. He was allegedly about to expose police corruption.

Det Ch Supt David Cook believes links between the newspaper and ex-detectives he was investigating led to him being turned on by the tabloid.

News UK, the owner of the now defunct Sunday red top, is yet to comment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-28314696
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The recent Panorama on police corruption goes into the Daniel Morgan case in a minor way. Interesting as it has an onscreen interview with Rees, covers the Operation Tiberius report, and has an interesting choice of other former police interviewees when considered in tandem with some of the text of the Operation Tiberius report shown onscreen but not directly referred to. Definitely for aficionados of Untouchables.

Panorama, Cops, Criminals, Corruption: The Inside Story
 
Oh, and belated ‘news’ - despite applying for it, Jonathan Rees was denied ‘core participant’ status at the Undercover Policing Inquiry:

67. I heard submissions on 7 October from both Mr Jonathon Rees who made the application and Ms Sylvia Jones who supported him. Their interest centres upon the alleged undercover activity of a retired police officer

68. The Inquiry has also received late applications from Barry Beardall, Thomas Reynolds, Thomas Kingston and Terry O’Connell. Barry Beardall seeks designation as a core participant because, he asserts, the same person acting under cover as claimed in Jonathon Rees’ application falsely subverted Mr Beardall’s appeal against conviction. The remaining three applicants are former police officers, convicted of corruption, who claim that the same person acting undercover reported back to his police handlers confidential and legally privileged information about the defendant’s defence at trial and a possible appeal. I emphasise that these claims are untested.

69. All of these applications rely upon the undercover activity of a man who was not at the time a serving police officer but was a retired police officer. For that reason (and whether or not he was being handled by the police) the terms of reference do not permit the Inquiry to investigate the allegations (see paragraphs 6 and 7 above). The applicants do not, therefore, meet the requirements of rule 5(2) and I decline to make the designations sought.
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https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/...tions-and-revisions-issued-on-26-Oct-2015.pdf
 
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Dan U said:
The podcast that Peter Jukes has been crowdfunding with Daniels brother Allister is coming out weekly for the next few weeks.

It's on here and itunes etc.

Home
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Even though I thought I had a pretty good handle on the basic gist of this sorry tale, this very thorough set of podcasts is just so jaw-droppingly awful. What the Morgan family had to go through!:(

By episode 9 you've just about had your fill of criminals, low-life scum, bent cops and the vermin, Murdoch press and think it can't get any worse....then we hear how NuLab scum Blunkett & Blears both tell the Morgan family to fuck off. What heroes.:mad:
 
Orang Utan said:
I've been gripped by the podcast. Unbelievable corruption. Kudos to Morgan's family, Alastair Morgan , in particular for their struggle for justice.
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Indeed.
It will be interesting to hear the Morgan family's response to the findings of the Panel of Inquiry to be released this autumn; let's hope it gives them something after all these years..but I somehow doubt the state will oblige.
 
A hearty endorsement for the Untold podcast from me. Repeats itself quite a bit as the story evolves over the episodes but well worth persevering with. The John Alford fit up episode in the second series - Hotline To Crime - beggars belief.
 
Casual Observer said:
A hearty endorsement for the Untold podcast from me. Repeats itself quite a bit as the story evolves over the episodes but well worth persevering with. The John Alford fit up episode in the second series - Hotline To Crime - beggars belief.
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Just listened to that one last night!
 
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