Alastair Morgan is still battling for justice 19 years after his brother was
found dead in a pub car park.
The brother of a private detective found with an axe embedded in his skull
has won the latest round in his 19 year fight for justice. Alastair Morgan, from
Gee Street, Finsbury, has been searching for answers since his younger brother
Daniel was brutally killed in a south London car park in 1987.
Despite four separate police investigations nobody has ever been punished for
the murder, and questions remain about possible police involvement in Daniel’s
death.
But there was hope for the family when a report by Britain’s top policeman
Sir Ian Blair into allegations of police misconduct was savaged by the
Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA).
In an e-mail to Mr Morgan, MPA chairman Len Duval, slammed the report as “not
adequate, for example in either reaching an understanding of past investigations
or in acknowledging how possible misconduct by one or more officers may have
affected the investigation.”
Mr Duval is due to meet Alastair Morgan and his mother Isobel Hulsmann and
has stressed his commitment to ensuring the truth about the murder finally comes
out.
Mr Morgan told the Gazette this week: “We are pleased that Len Duval has
taken a tough stance on this. I am disappointed but hardly surprised by Ian
Blair’s failure to answer the questions posed. I believe that an honest report
would give clear evidence of misfeasance at the highest level in both the
Metropolitan Police and the Hampshire Police.”
“At an inquest in 1988 allegations were made of police involvement in
Daniel’s murder. In our view all of the available evidence supports these
allegations. We believe there has been a cover-up.”
He continued: “We hoped that Ian Blair’s report would shed light on this but
Sir Ian has a history of non-disclosure in this case. In 2002 he refused to give
us access to a police report on the murder and we had to take the Met to the
High Court. We believe that the inquest was misled and that the Police
Complaints Commission was misled and that senior officers in both the Met and
the Hampshire police must have been aware of this.”
Ex-Islington South and Finsbury MP Chris Smith fought alongside Mr Morgan’s
family for 10 years to try and get a public enquiry into the murder.
Despite the backing of 58 MPs Home Office minister Hazel Blears ended their
hopes in December 2004. But now Mr Morgan believes their case is overwhelming.
“The fact that the Met’s commissioner is ducking and diving only strengthens
our case,” he said. “A public inquiry is the only way we will ever find out what
really happened to my brother”.
