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Below is a CNN video that does a good job of describing the case and the links to the recent hacking scandal.

CNN's Atika Shubert reports on a murder mystery in the UK and how it ties into police and News Corp. corruption.
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t3#/video/world/2011/11/24/shubert-uk-murder-mystery.cnn

Also....

Daniel Morgan axe murder: Mother to meet home secretary
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-15828438

Daniel Morgan (private investigator)

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Daniel Morgan was a private investigator brutally murdered in Sydenham, south east London, in March 1987. He was said to have been close to exposing important police corruption. His death was the subject of several failed police inquiries and in 2011 was at the centre of allegations concerning the suspect conduct of News of the World journalists. Morgan's unsolved murder has been described as a reminder of the old London police culture of corruption and unaccountability.

More at link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Morgan_(private_investigator)
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/po...rgan-murder-was-patchy-underwhelming-and-des/

In early March 1987, a private investigator called Daniel Morgan told friends that he’d uncovered evidence of major corruption within the Metropolitan Police, which he planned to share with the media. Days later, he was murdered in a pub car park in Sydenham, south London.

Nearly 30 years on, after five separate police investigations into the killing and some decidedly suspicious goings on behind the scenes, the case remains unsolved – making it one of the murkiest, and most conspiracy-laden, stories in the Met’s long history...
 
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...est-cover-up-has-become-a-must-listen-podcast

‘This is not a whodunnit,” says Peter Jukes. “It’s a story about the biggest cover-up in the history of British police, and how they got away with it.”

Jukes is talking about his new podcast Untold, which probes the brutal murder of private eye Daniel Morgan in the car park of a south London pub in 1987 – and the three decades of intrigue that followed it.

The serial is on its third episode, and is topping the iTunes charts.
 
Guardian:

Daniel Morgan murder suspects named in court 30 years after killing
High court hears claims that Glenn Vian and Jonathan Rees killed
the private detective in one of UK’s most notorious unsolved crimes

The alleged conspirators in the unsolved murder of Daniel Morgan have been named in court, nearly 30 years after the private detective was found dead with an axe embedded in his head in a pub car park.

The high court heard allegations from lawyers acting for the Metropolitan police that Glenn Vian struck two fatal blows with the axe having been paid to carry out the killing by Jonathan Rees, an investigator who was Morgan’s business partner.

Rees carried out extensive work as an private eye for the News of the World, and earned up to £150,000 a year for the tabloid by providing it with information and stories, despite claims of him having links to police officers suspected of corruption.

Morgan was killed in 1987 and no one has ever been convicted over his death, one of the UK’s most notorious unsolved crimes. The court heard that Morgan was investigating the drugs trade and was killed because he knew too much.
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more at link above

Wikipedia: Murder of Daniel Morgan
 
Daniel Morgan murder: new delays hit inquiry into 31-year-old case

The official inquiry into the murder of Daniel Morgan has hit new delays and will now not report until next year – 31 years after the private detective was murdered, allegedly as he was about to expose police corruption, the Guardian has learned.

Morgan, 37, was a private detective who co-owned a small south London agency, Southern Investigations. He was found with an axe embedded in his head in a south London pub car park on 10 March 1987.

No one has ever been convicted of the murder, although the Morgan family and police are sure who the prime suspects are.
 
As a £16m inquiry into murder set to reveal its findings, this dossier lays bare shameful scandal | Daily Mail Online

Are we about to get some answers?

The original terms of reference set out that 'the panel will aim to complete its work within 12 months of the [police and other relevant] documentation being made available'. That was almost eight years ago. Since then, the inquiry has cost the taxpayer at least £16million.

The delay has been blamed on the slowness of the police to provide the necessary paper evidence. The police have argued that they have supplied the inquiry with more than a million documents. These excuses are immaterial to the Morgan family — the delay only adds a new layer to their suffering.

The Mail, which has championed their cause with a number of groundbreaking investigative pieces, has learned from key participants that the Morgan Panel report will be published, finally, within the next few weeks.
 
The home secretary has ordered that an independent report on claims murderers were shielded by police corruption and claims of corruption in Rupert Murdoch’s media empire must be vetted by her department before its publication.

The move triggered fury and follows eight years of work by a special panel to investigate the murder of private detective Daniel Morgan in 1987, who was found dead in a south London car park with an axe embedded in his head.

Anger as Patel delays publication of report into private detective’s murder
 
I think the murderer is a prominent figure in this investigation. He either did it himself and others have been dragged in by association, or he engaged others to do it and it's a criminal conspiracy. The business partner seems the obvious candidate acting alone. He was at the scene only moments before the murder and had motive on multiple levels. He also has missing minutes in his timeline home. Could be all him and nothing at all to do with Police corruption. MOO
 
I think the murderer is a prominent figure in this investigation. He either did it himself and others have been dragged in by association, or he engaged others to do it and it's a criminal conspiracy. The business partner seems the obvious candidate acting alone. He was at the scene only moments before the murder and had motive on multiple levels. He also has missing minutes in his timeline home. Could be all him and nothing at all to do with Police corruption. MOO
The only person to gain from the murder of Daniel Morgan was his business partner (money, control of the business, success, girlfriend). The idea that Morgan was going to rat out police corruption as a motive has never been substantiated. I propose that whole police corruption scenario to have been a smokescreen sown very early on. Strip that out and it becomes obvious who killed him.
 
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I think the murderer is a prominent figure in this investigation. He either did it himself and others have been dragged in by association, or he engaged others to do it and it's a criminal conspiracy. The business partner seems the obvious candidate acting alone. He was at the scene only moments before the murder and had motive on multiple levels. He also has missing minutes in his timeline home. Could be all him and nothing at all to do with Police corruption. MOO

So we aren't going to hear the truth then. What a joke.
 
The home secretary has ordered that an independent report on claims murderers were shielded by police corruption and claims of corruption in Rupert Murdoch’s media empire must be vetted by her department before its publication.

The move triggered fury and follows eight years of work by a special panel to investigate the murder of private detective Daniel Morgan in 1987, who was found dead in a south London car park with an axe embedded in his head.

Anger as Patel delays publication of report into private detective’s murder

What a complete farce
 
The independent panel investigating the Daniel Morgan scandal is refusing the home secretary’s demands to hand over its report before it can be published, as senior police sources say nothing in the case affects national security.

Priti Patel provoked fury on Tuesday by demanding the findings be handed over for review prior to publication, angering both the Morgan family and members of the panel conducting the inquiry.

Patel cited the need to consider national security and human rights obligations before making the report public.

But one source with close knowledge of the five Metropolitan police inquiries into the case and the documents involved, said: “There are no national security issues involved. There are national embarrassment issues.”

Daniel Morgan murder: panel refuses to hand over report
 

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