British private investigators have been murdered for 34 years

Slain with an ax - for more than three decades there has not been a single hot lead to the perpetrator of the brutal crime.

Was the police involved themselves?

London (AP) - The brutal murder 34 years ago of a private detective who was investigating the subject of police corruption is currently occupying the British again.

In 1987 Daniel Morgan was found with an ax in his head in the parking lot of a pub in London. His son now declined an apology from Scotland Yard boss Cressida Dick for the investigators' failure, as he told the BBC on Friday. The son, who, like his father, is also called Daniel Morgan, even suggested that the police chief resign.

For more than three decades, the British have been puzzling over who could have murdered the 37-year-old private detective - and whether the perpetrator or perpetrators are possibly to be found in the vicinity of the police. The investigation into the case revealed links between police, journalists, private investigators and criminals. A business partner of Morgan, who was at times under suspicion of murder, was involved in the scandal over the tabloid "News of the World". For years, journalists from the now discontinued paper had spied on the cell phones of crime victims and celebrities and bribed police officers.

In the Daniel Morgan case, one investigation after another failed or came to nothing.

An independent investigation report published last week confirmed that the London police had "a kind of institutional corruption" because the failure of the investigation into the case had been systematically concealed.

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