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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

Daniel Morgan murder: Met had little choice but to admit failings

The Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, in Hackney, east London, on Wednesday 19 July.
Sir Mark Rowley admitted the Met prioritised its reputation in its handling of the Daniel Morgan murder case over 36 years. Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA

Years of pain and frustration led Alastair Morgan to develop a catchphrase to explain the series of obstacles put up by the powerful in his search for answers after his brother Daniel was murdered in 1987.

“That’s Britain,” would become his stock response over the years, as the Metropolitan police – in his eyes – dissembled and obfuscated, and those supposed to hold it to account, be it the government, nine Scotland Yard commissioners or three incarnations of a police watchdog, failed to do their job.

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