Daniel Morgan murder: What happened in the case of the murdered private detective?

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A damning independent report into the unsolved 1987 murder of British private detective Daniel Morgan has finally been published - following an intervention by the Home Office to delay it - in which the Metropolitan Police are accused of “institutional corruption” over their failure to bring Morgan’s killer to justice. The Daniel Morgan Independent Panel concluded that the force’s “first objective was to protect itself” against allegations that corrupt officers were involved in the murder. “Those police officers are friends of mine and will either murder Danny themselves or will arrange it.” Fillery would subsequently retire from the force on medical grounds and did indeed eventually succeed Morgan at Southern. That summer, police constable Alan “Taffy” Holmes, an acquaintance of Morgan’s with whom the deceased is alleged to have collaborated on exposing police corruption, was found dead in mysterious circumstances.