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The Hack: Who Was Daniel Morgan and Why Was His Killer Not Found?

In March 1987, Daniel Morgan, a private investigator, was killed with an axe in a pub car park in Sydenham, London.
Press reports said Morgan's work involved unauthorised access to computer data and bank accounts, and that Jonathan Rees later supplied illegally obtained material to News of the World after his 2004 hire.
Rees, Detective Sergeant Sid Fillery and two brothers, Glenn and Garry Vian, were arrested in April 1987 but released without charge; a 2009 trial at the Old Bailey collapsed in 2011 after supergrass evidence was ruled inadmissible.
A June 2021 report found the Metropolitan Police `institutionally corrupt` in handling Morgan's murder, and in May 2023 the Metropolitan Police apologised after finding relevant documents in a locked cabinet.
The Hack, a series featuring David Tennant and Robert Carlyle as Detective Chief Superintendent Dave Cook, revisits the phone-hacking scandal and his 2002 investigation into Daniel Morgan's murder.

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