Analysis: Southern Investigations revealed as a hub of corruption enabling officers to sell information to the media
The Daniel Morgan inquiry reveals no shortage of disturbing material about key elements of the Met police, the Murdoch press stable, in particular the cut-throat News of the World, and even some of the newspaper’s fiercest rivals.
Confidential police information was routinely for sale for tabloid stories – for two decades from the late 1980s – while senior Met officers entertained cosy relations with key executives, sometimes obtaining plum jobs after they retired from the force.
