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Share 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 o...

Leveson part two needed to examine links between News of the World and Daniel Morgan murder, Parliament told The brother of murdered private investigator Daniel Morgan told a meeting at the House of Lords yesterday why he suspects press involvement in the crime. And he also urged politicians to continue pushing for the second part of the Leveson Inquiry to take place in order to investigate corruption involving the police and the press. Former detective and Crimewatch host Jacqui Hames also spoke at the meeting and explained why she believes the News of the World sought to derail a fresh inve...

Priti Patel has delayed publication of a report on the unsolved 1987 murder of a private detective

That gnawing sense of injustice creates a troubled look that I have seen a number of times in my 25 years covering high-profile crimes for the Daily Mail. I saw it etched on the face of Doreen Lawrence in the early days of this newspaper's Justice for Stephen campaign in the late 1990s. Her family was desperate for her son's killers to face trial – and for police to be held to account over a litany of appalling blunders. A similar expression was on the face of André Hanscombe, the partner of Wimbledon Common killing victim Rachel Nickell, who I came to know very well. He had to wait 16 yea...

Independent panel set up to investigate killing of Daniel Morgan ‘furious’ at home secretary’s move Daniel Morgan was found dead in a south London car park in 1987, with an axe embedded in his head. Photograph: Metropolitan Police/PA Daniel Morgan was found dead in a south London car park in 1987, with an axe embedded in his head. Photograph: Metropolitan Police/PA Tue 18 May 2021 15.49 EDT Last modified on Wed 19 May 2021 03.56 EDT The home secretary has ordered that an independent report on claims murderers were shielded by police corruption and claims of corruption in Rupert...