THE family of murdered private detective Daniel Morgan is suing the Metropolitan Police, alleging the London force is still failing to confront a “culture of corruption within its ranks.”

In June, an official investigation accused the force of institutional corruption over its handling of the unsolved murder.

Morgan was found with an axe lodged in his head in a south-east London car park in 1987.

His family have been fighting for justice ever since, but no-one has been convicted for Morgan’s murder. The Met has previously admitted that corrupt officers shielded the killers. 

In a statement released by law firm Bhatt Murphy Solicitors yesterday the family said they were “saddened, if not surprised” by a lack of follow-up action by the Met and other agencies after the June report. 

They highlighted the decision by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime not to take disciplinary action against Met Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick despite the inquiry’s finding that she had obstructed the panel’s access to a police intelligence database. 
 
The family adds that they have been left with no option but to bring a civil claim against the Met “in order to “achieve some semblance of accountability.”

They said: “Three generations of our family have already suffered as the collateral damage resulting from the inexcusable failure of the institutions of the state to do what was required of them in the face of institutionalised police corruption.

“We do not want this burden to be passed on to the coming generations of our family.”

A spokesman for the Met said: “Since the Daniel Morgan independent panel published its report six months ago, a dedicated team within the Met has been established and is progressing its response to those recommendations specific to the Met, while engaging with other lead organisations named in the report.”