Scotland Yard apology and payment of damages averts prospect of hugely embarrassing civil trial
Years of pain and frustration led Alastair Morgan to develop a catchphrase to explain the series of obstacles put up by the powerful in his search for answers after his brother Daniel was murdered in 1987.
“That’s Britain,” would become his stock response over the years, as the Metropolitan police – in his eyes – dissembled and obfuscated, and those supposed to hold it to account, be it the government, nine Scotland Yard commissioners or three incarnations of a police watchdog, failed to do their job.
