Mr Morgan, a 37-year-old father-of-two, was killed with an axe in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham, south-east London, on March 10 1987. On Wednesday, the force and lawyers for Mr Morgan’s family said they have reached a “mutually satisfactory settlement” – after his relatives began legal action against the Met. “This case has been marred by a cycle of corruption, professional incompetence and defensiveness that has repeated itself over and over again.”Sir Mark said campaigning by Mr Morgan’s family exposed systemic failings in the organisation. Mr Morgan’s death is one of the longest-running and most notorious unsolved cases to have faced the Met. The murder scene was not searched and was left unguarded and there were no alibis sought for all the suspects.

Source: The Times July 19, 2023 09:12 UTC