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Are we finally going to
hear the full story behind the Metropolitan Police's most notoriously
unsuccessful murder investigation of Daniel Morgan?
Were members of Catford
Police really involved in the murder?
How did an associate of the prime
suspect become part of the murder squad?
Was vital evidence tampered with
and lost?
Last week 3 men were
charged.
James Cook, 53, and Garry Vian, 47 have been charged
with Daniel Morgan's murder.
Former Detective Seargant Sid Fillery, 61, has been
charged with perverting the course of justice in relation to the murder he
investigated 21 years ago. He later took the place of Daniel Morgan as a
Director of Southern Investigations alongside Jonathon Rees.
Jonathon Rees, 53, and Garry Vian's brother Glenn, 49
were also arrested and held in custody.
The story so far
...
Jim Dowd MP, Len Duvall of the MPA, this website and
many others have campaigned to find out the truth of what really happened 21
years ago. It is a story of corruption, cover-ups and procrastination by people
responsible for fighting crime and protecting our liberties.
When we started the allegations seemed too far fetched
to believe. We were careful not to print anything that we couldn't ourselves
verify. But just over a year ago the MPA finally published a devasting document
which publicly revealed:
There was a robbery at a
car auction at which Morgan's company Southern Investigations was providing
security. Morgan's partner Jonathan Rees was the prime suspect. Rees had
employed three serving police officers including DS Sidney Fillery to provide
the security. This caused a break between Morgan and Rees and was believed to
be the motive behind the murder.
The first investigation
was undertaken by Catford Police. DS Sidney Fillery became part of that
investigation without revealing his association with Rees and car auction
robbery. In addition he undertook a search of the offices of Southern
Investigations, allegedly removing a file relating to the car auctions work
that was never seen by the investigation team.
DS Fillery and two other
officers were subsequently arrested with involvement in the murder but released
without charge. DS Fillery was later discharged on medical grounds and took the
place of Daniel Morgan at Southern Investigations.
Had the trail gone cold after four collapsed
investigations mired in police corruption allegations?
Yates of the Yard (the same man doggedly pursuiing the
'Cash for Peerages' investigation) has taken responsibility and things are
beginning to happen. WoS reported that the investigating officer Det Chief
Superintendant Dave Cook said in 2007:
"I've got five suspects
in total, three of whom have been arrested and are on bail. The others will be
invited in when the time is right. We are just pulling all the evidence
together and then it'll be down to the Crown Prosecution Service to determine
if it is sufficient. I'm pretty confident it will go to trial. We've got some
really good evidence."
"We have in excess of
2,500 witness statements but only a small proportion of those have given us
relevant evidence. And we have 16,500 exhibits, some of which will form part of
our submissions to the CPS. When this investigation started in 1987 this was a
hundred-piece jigsaw that had a lot of lost pieces. "Now we've a million-piece
jigsaw. And we still have pieces missing."
The BBC and our local 'NewsShopper' has taken up the
story and add:
"One of the motives that
we are investigating is that Daniel was killed because he was about to expose a
drugs conspiracy which was potentially linked into police
corruption."
"Two men, aged in their
late 40s, were arrested on August 4 in connection with the murder and a third
man, also aged in his 40s, was arrested on September 7 last
year."
There is a reward of
£50,000 for anyone who has any information that will directly assist in
bringing charges to those responsible for Daniel Morgan's murder. Anyone with
information about the murder should contact Crimestoppers on 0800
555111.
Further Reading
- Full MPA Report <here>
- Family's 18th anniversary tribute <here>
- Excellent expose in The Sun of all newspapers! <here>
- Sidney Fillery escapes jail - BBC News <here>
- Justice for Daniel website <here>
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