In this bumper December into January round up of The Usual Suspects you’ll find developments in the on-going Soho police corruption case that raise questions about the competency or willingness of the Met to locate a cop said to have done wrong with a security boss, both of whom are in the wind.
Elsewhere, but staying with the Met’s ’s professional standards department, The Upsetter examines efforts to identify the police officer(s) behind a serious assault on one of their own.
Meanwhile, almost every day there is some press release about a WhatsApp group of coppers sharing bad shit. Having exposed one of the first groups, who were sentenced in December, this newsletter asks if freedom of speech is a casualty of the new Met commissioner’s desperation to appear tough?
Over in TV land, a drama about The Guardian’s phone hacking investigation will touch on the Daniel Morgan murder for a bit of spice. But a leaked letter from the producers suggests corrupt cop Dave Cook, the newspaper’s source, is heading for a make over as a hero not villain in a propaganda piece.
Staying with Morganology, The Upsetter untangles two very different villains called Jimmy Holmes. There’s the one who features in the Morgan case and the much more colourful other who is the nemesis of Long Fella, David Hunt.
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