London’s Metropolitan Police has failed to learn all the lessons from the unsolved murder of Daniel Morgan in 1987, and the force’s anti-corruption arrangements and procedures are “fundamentally flawed,” a police watchdog has found. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) on Tuesday published its inspection report (pdf) of the Met, concluding the force’s approach to tackling police corruption is “not fit for purpose.” Morgan, a private investigator at Southern Investigations in Thornton Heath, was 37 years old when he was axed to death in a dark corner of the car park of the Golden Lion public house in Sydenham, South East London, leaving behind his wife and two young children. No one has ever been convicted of the murder as a result of four major police investigations, an inquest, and several other operations. Home Secretary Priti Patel commissioned the HMICFRS inspection in July 2021, after an independent …
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