The family of a murdered Thornton Heath detective have welcomed the Home Secretary's decision to launch an independent inquiry into his killing.

Mr Morgan's family welcomed the Home Secretary's decision to appoint an independent panel.

Daniel's brother, Alastair, said on behalf of his mother Isobel, his sister Jane and himself: "In 2011, over 24 years after Daniel's murder, the Metropolitan Police finally admitted that their first investigation of this crime was crippled by police corruption.

"As Daniel's family, we were aware of that corruption within three weeks of the murder - we said so then, and we have been saying so ever since.

 

"Through almost three decades of public protests, meetings with police officers at the highest ranks, lobbying of politicians and pleas to the media, we have found ourselves lied to, fobbed off, bullied, degraded and let down time and time again.

"What we have been required to endure has been nothing less than mental torture. It has changed our relationship with this country forever.

"In the meanwhile, the allegations and evidence of serious corruption within the Metropolitan Police - extending to recent history and the highest ranks - remained unaddressed through five police investigations and a prosecution aborted after 18 months of pre-trial argument.

"Over most of this period, we witnessed a complete unwillingness by police and successive governments to face up to what was occurring, and ultimately a complete failure by police leadership to deal effectively with serious police criminality.

"We trust and hope that the Panel, through its examination and publication of all relevant material and information, will assist the authorities to confront and acknowledge this failure for once and for all, so that we may at last be able to get on with our lives.’’