5 December 201116 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Lynette White case: Police trial collapses

originally by: BBC News
published: 1st December 2011

South Wales Police says it has asked the police watchdog to investigate after the UK’s biggest case involving alleged police corruption collapsed. Eight former officers were cleared of perverting the course of justice at Swansea Crown Court after the wrongful conviction of three men for murder.

The judge ruled the officers and two other defendants, who were also found not guilty, could not get a fair trial. The case follows the murder of Cardiff prostitute Lynette White in 1988.

Files relating to complaints by an original defendant were said to be missing, and the director of public prosecutions said he was “extremely concerned”. The cost of the investigations and trials is thought to run into tens of millions. One estimate put it as high as £30m.

22 October 201116 December 2022 4WardEverUK

We fight on, vows the 83-yr-old mother again denied justice

originally by: Islington Tribune
published: 21st October 2011

An 83-year-old mother was turned away from the Home Office on Tuesday after travelling from Wales to seek justice for the son who was murdered 25 years ago.

Isobel Hulsmann vowed that she would “not go away” as she seeks answers from the government as to why no one has been brought to justice over the death of her son, Daniel Morgan, in March 1987.

Her vigil came after Home Secretary Theresa May refused to hold a judicial inquiry into the police corruption that led to the failure to solve Britain’s longest-running murder case.

2 April 201116 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Metropolitan Police apology over Daniel Morgan murder

originally by: BBC News
31st March 2011

Scotland Yard has apologised to the family of a private detective killed in south-east London in 1987, for a corrupt investigation into his death. Daniel Morgan, 37, was found with an axe in his head in Sydenham but nobody has ever been convicted of murder. Acting Commissioner Tim Godwin told a Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) meeting “failings” by officers. The entire legal case collapsed this month.

Mr Morgan’s family has called for a full judicial inquiry. The father-of-two from Monmouthshire was found with an axe in his skull in a car park outside the Golden Lion pub. Five people were arrested in 2008 but none was ever convicted.