Never seen a murder documentary where the perpetrators were so obvious. Can't believe there haven't been convictions in this case
3 Reviews
So obvious!
thomashughes-3743229 June 2020
Crime does pay...Especially for police officers
jonmccann5 July 2020
I do believe, in a time that newspapers are begging for help to keep going, that journalism needs to step up and do the job the public expects and rightly expects, which is to hold institutions and importantly people to account. It is the only way that journalism should survive.
From that perspective, investigative documentaries such as this are important, especially when we consider how important our history is and how easy in such a fast and dynamic world that it is to forget. It has been regularly highlighted recently how our past has continued to influence our present and how it is time for change, to put right wrongs and stop wrongs being the norm.
For this series specifically, I was glad to finally get an understanding of something that happened so long ago, that could have been 'righted', but due to seriously poor failings by metropolitan police, that continue to this day, is still not a closed case. The actual events and aftermath will truly enlighten you as to why, but alas I suspect you won't be surprised by what events have happened and continue to happen to the poor family affected, such is the nature we have become accustomed to these days.
I don't know but do suspect that nothing will change as a result of this documentary, but it's irrelevant, you should watch and understand what goes on inside the institutions we pay to protect us and that often, they shed more blood than they are paid to save.
From that perspective, investigative documentaries such as this are important, especially when we consider how important our history is and how easy in such a fast and dynamic world that it is to forget. It has been regularly highlighted recently how our past has continued to influence our present and how it is time for change, to put right wrongs and stop wrongs being the norm.
For this series specifically, I was glad to finally get an understanding of something that happened so long ago, that could have been 'righted', but due to seriously poor failings by metropolitan police, that continue to this day, is still not a closed case. The actual events and aftermath will truly enlighten you as to why, but alas I suspect you won't be surprised by what events have happened and continue to happen to the poor family affected, such is the nature we have become accustomed to these days.
I don't know but do suspect that nothing will change as a result of this documentary, but it's irrelevant, you should watch and understand what goes on inside the institutions we pay to protect us and that often, they shed more blood than they are paid to save.
Fascinating but disturbing true crime story - a must watch!
njboden22 June 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This is as gripping as any thriller: a man gets murdered with an axe in a car park only for the business partner of this man and his friends, including corrupt cops, to be implicated. The motives for the murder include the following: avoiding exposure of drugs deals, avoiding the exposure of the theft of £18,000 from a safe and love rivalry.
Possible police corruption includes not only moonlighting for a private security company, theft, drug dealing and planning and covering up the murder of Daniel Morgan but also planting drugs in a woman's car and falsely arresting her, selling stories to private detectives for them to sell on to the press and tipping off a criminal of a raid so he can dispose of the firearm.
Suspicious activity of the main suspect, Jonathan Rees (Morgan's business partner), include: firstly, employing a compromised detective, Sid Fillery, in Southern Investigations (Rees and Morgan's Private Detective/Security company); secondly, employing a police officer suspected of drug-dealing in Southern Investigations; thirdly, marrying the woman both Rees and Morgan were having an affair with.
Never before have I heard of a case where there were 5 police investigations, totalling millions, and at least 3 places bugged but no convictions for the suspects on the main charges they were investigated for (Rees was sent down for perverting the course of justice and Fillery for possession of indecent images of children though).
Possible police corruption includes not only moonlighting for a private security company, theft, drug dealing and planning and covering up the murder of Daniel Morgan but also planting drugs in a woman's car and falsely arresting her, selling stories to private detectives for them to sell on to the press and tipping off a criminal of a raid so he can dispose of the firearm.
Suspicious activity of the main suspect, Jonathan Rees (Morgan's business partner), include: firstly, employing a compromised detective, Sid Fillery, in Southern Investigations (Rees and Morgan's Private Detective/Security company); secondly, employing a police officer suspected of drug-dealing in Southern Investigations; thirdly, marrying the woman both Rees and Morgan were having an affair with.
Never before have I heard of a case where there were 5 police investigations, totalling millions, and at least 3 places bugged but no convictions for the suspects on the main charges they were investigated for (Rees was sent down for perverting the course of justice and Fillery for possession of indecent images of children though).
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