Police have moved a step closer to catching the people responsible for the murder of a Powys private detective 20 years ago.Officers from Scotland Yard have submitted a file on the case to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to examine whether charges can be brought.
The move comes after a fifth investigation into the murder of 37-year-old Daniel Morgan outside a London pub in March 1987.
Mr Morgan, whose mother lives in Hay-on-Wye, was found dead outside The Golden Lion, in Sydenham, with an axe embedded in his skull.
It is believed he was about to expose widespread corruption in the Metropolitan Police, as well as officers’ involvement with a cocaine distribution network in south-east London.
His family have spent many years trying to bring the killers to justice.
The new file presented to the CPS amounts to about 300 pages and represents the product of all five investigations.
His family has been told the submission of the file to the CPS will not be the end of the investigation and officers will continue to seek evidence to support the prosecution of all those involved.
Alastair Morgan, Daniel’s brother, said: “It will be a few months for a decision. Hopefully it will instigate a crown court trial and, obviously, we want a conviction. It has been a long and sometimes hellish struggle for us to get to this point.
“We will now have to wait several months for the CPS to decide whether and against whom charges will be brought. We want the whole truth to come out so that we can move on with our lives.
“In the past, the Met’s treatment of my family has been shabby and downright provocative. In 1998-99, an inquiry was carried out behind our backs after we’d been campaigning for over a decade.
“The Met then forced us into a High Court battle to obtain disclosure in 2003 of a report by Hampshire police on the murder.”
A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said: “The Metropolitan Police Force has not made any recommendations about a charge.
“We do not do so in our submissions to the Crown Prosecution Service, we simply present all of the evidence collected to date.”
By Tamlyn Jones
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