The squalid tale uncovered by the inquiry is bad enough. The police’s efforts to obstruct it make it worse
The killing of 37-year-old private detective Daniel Morgan in south London in 1987, and the failure to bring anyone to justice, is one of the darkest marks on the reputation of the Metropolitan police.
Thanks to his relatives, who have dedicated a large portion of their lives to discovering who killed him, who covered it up and why, a huge amount of information is now in the public domain. The report of the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel, published on Tuesday – eight years after Theresa May commissioned it – would not exist were it not for their refusal to give up and go away.
