Britain | The murder of Daniel Morgan
A panel finds that London’s police are “institutionally corrupt”
The coppers are having none of it
IN MARCH 1987 Daniel Morgan, a private investigator, was found dead in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in south London. The axe used to kill him was embedded in his head. Its handle had been wrapped with sticking plasters, perhaps for a better grip, perhaps to avoid fingerprints. A wad of banknotes in his pocket was untouched.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Aftermath of a murder”
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