‘Report couldn’t read worse for Met Police’

Sky’s Jason Farrell has looked through the report into Daniel Morgan’s murder and says it makes for grim reading for the Met.

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JASON FARRELL: I mean, it couldn’t read worse, really, the report for the police. Linking it to current issues within the police and saying that that institutional corruption is ongoing, that they have tried to protect their own reputation and been prepared to lie to the family, lie to the public about the situations and circumstances around the case. And everything you read in that report– and it is 12,000 pages long, I haven’t been able to read the whole of it– but every bit that you delve into, there are sections that just read awfully. From the investigation itself, where it talks about police officers involved in the investigation drinking beers down the pub with one of the suspects.

It talks about a failure to investigate the alibis, for example, of police officers who are in the frame. Failure to secure the scene, failure of the forensic investigation. It criticizes the coroner for assuming that there was no police involvement. It then criticizes the police investigation into the investigation that was supposed to be independent by Hampshire police, saying that it wasn’t independent, that it didn’t turn over all the stones it should have done, and just repeatedly referring back to this consistent dishonesty with the family about the situation, leading to Alastair Morgan saying that Cressida Dick should be considering her position and that she’s no worse than any of her predecessors, but he doesn’t say that she’s any better either. So it is a damning report. It will take a lot of digestion from Priti Patel and Cressida Dick as well as the family, but it doesn’t read very well at all for the Metropolitan Police.