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The Daniel Morgan Murder: An Unsolved Mystery of the Murdoch Hacking Scandal

Foul Play

On Friday, Britain’s home secretary opened a judge-led public inquiry into the brutal and mysterious 1987 slaying of Daniel Morgan. Peter Jukes talks to Alastair Morgan, who hopes the decades-long cover-up of his brother’s death may finally be revealed.

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It is Britain’s biggest unsolved murder, and described by a senior police officer as “the pivotal crime of the times.”

It plunges into the heart of what former prime minister Gordon Brown called the “criminal-media nexus” exposed by the hacking and bribes scandal that engulfed Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloid titles....

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