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The veteran officer, who is retiring next month, said it was important his colleagues were allowed the independence to do their jobs. I think it is as incumbent on the service to assert itself and its independence and its role as it is for the Home Office to stand back, Mr Morgan said.
During the pandemic Patel has had weekly meetings with senior police chiefs including Cressida Dick and Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs Council.
Previously such meetings would only take place four times a year.
Private detective Daniel Morgan, pictured, was murdered in London on March 10, 1987
LONDON
The family of a private investigator murdered in London more than 30 years ago an unsolved crime blighted by police corruption has accused the British government of interfering with publication of a report into the killing.
Daniel Morgan was killed with an ax in a pub’s parking lot in south London in 1987. Despite five police inquiries and an inquest, no one has ever been convicted, and police have acknowledged that corruption hampered the original murder investigation.
In 2007, police said they believed Morgan was about to expose a drug network, possibly involving corrupt police officers, when he was killed.
A report by an independent panel that has spent eight years taking a new look at the crime and the links between police, private investigators and tabloid journalists connected to the case was due to be published next week. But at the last minute, Home Secretary Priti Patel said it needed to be reviewed because of national security concerns.
Metropolitan Police
The family of murdered private investigator Daniel Morgan is “suspicious about the motives” behind a Home Office decision to delay the publication of a report into the 1987 killing, their lawyer has said.
The 37-year-old married father-of-two was killed with an axe in a pub car park in Sydenham, southeast London. “His family has always maintained he was on the cusp of exposing police corruption,” reports the BBC.
“Although he had not been stripped of his valuables, notes he was earlier seen writing in the pub had been ripped from his trouser pocket,” the broadcaster adds.
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