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Too Close for Comfort: New Evidence Connecting Daniel Morgan to another Violent Death

A year on from season two, and a year before the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel is due to report, an important update about one of the abiding mysteries around the murder of Daniel Morgan - was it connected with the other violent death of DC Alan 'Taffy' Holmes, a few months later?

EPISODE 1: THE PERFECT MURDER, ALMOST

Peter and Deeivya go back over the 30 year timeline with new evidence. What happened in those days leading up to the murder?   What was the conspiracy? And what else happened in around the murder in the car park?

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EPISODE 4:  THE WIRE

The stunning revelations from the Inquest that Jonathan Rees had planned Daniel Morgan's murder a year before it happened are backed up in dramatic transcripts

EPISODE 7: HOTLINE TO CRIME

As a young actor conducts his own defence against entrapment by the Fake Sheikh, he reveals several direct links between the criminal underworld around Southern Investigations and Rupert Murdoch's senior executives

Clarification re Episode 7

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EPISODE 10: FEARLESS

At the funeral and wake for Daniel Morgan's mother Isobel, friends and family discuss her 30 year campaign for justice for her son, and Alastair reveals his plans for the future - and one final startling revelation from the 2011 trial.

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EPISODE 2: ANATOMY OF A COVERUP  

More revelations from the first murder inquiry, Morgan 1, as the shadow boxing between Alastair Morgan and Detective Sergeant Sid Fillery is laid bare. Alastair's probing leads to suspicion falling on the Catford detective. 

EPISODE 5: MASTERS OF THE DARK ARTS

As Rees and Fillery make Southern Investigations a one stop shop for the press in the 90s, they also pioneer the modern arts of cybercrime, fake news, kompromat and the tabloid sting for the News of the World.

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EPISODE 8: LABYRINTH OF LIES

The Ghost Squad arrests in the 90s around Southern Investigations reveal three overlapping Empires of Crime, according to Untouchables co-author Laurie Flynn

EPISODE 3: THE WIDER WEB


Three weeks after Daniel Morgan was murdered, a major investigation into police corruption in South London, and the death of DC Alan Holmes. But were he and Daniel working together? 

EPISODE 6: THE STEPHEN LAWRENCE MURDER

Six years later, seven miles away, Six years later, seven miles away, the most notorious racist killing in British history has disturbing connections to the Daniel Morgan murder and police corruption in South East London.

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EPISODE 9: SPYWARE

Murdoch's News UK has now admitted computer hacking in alliance with Southern Investigations. But who did they target? And why did the police let them get away with it. 


 

Season One

EPisode 1: luckiest mugging in the world

Exploring Daniel Morgan's background & the murky world of private detectives and police in South London in the 1980s.

EPISODE 4: UNLAWFUL KILLING

In one of the most explosive inquests in British history, the Morgan family are told the details of Daniel's murder and the conspiracy behind it.

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EPISODE 2: ONE TRUE DETECTIVE

In the immediate aftermath of  Daniel's death,  Alastair becomes the one true detective into his brother's brutal axe killing. But who else can he trust?  

EPISODE 5: STATIONARY

A round table discussion about the evidence available to the second Morgan inquiry.  While the investigation is on hold, Alastair makes an important connection. 

episode 3: the broken harp

Another violent death of a police officer associated with Daniel, while the suspects use TV and press  contacts to derail the first Morgan Murder inquiry. 

EPISODE 6: SERPICO HASLAM

Are the violent deaths of DC Alan Holmes and Daniel Morgan connected? The senior police officers briefing Derek Haslam to go undercover thought they were...

 

EPISODE 7:  COVER STORIES

Going undercover into the Number One Corrupt Detective Agency during its heyday as the centre of the dark arts. 

EPISODE 10: CARRYING THE BURDEN

The longest pre trial hearings in British history are soon followed by one of the biggest scandals. But how are Daniel Morgan and phone hacking connected? 

EPISODE 8: WATCHING THE DETECTIVES

The Guardian newspaper is targeted by senior officers, while the lead detective in the fourth murder inquiry finds his family is in the firing line.

Episode 9: THE GOLDEN THREAD

While News of the World try to derail the fifth murder inquiry, a series of protected witnesses provide a detailed picture of the conspiracy to kill Daniel. 


A NEW SPIN OFF SERIES OF Untold will follow the extraordinary story of a new Wapping Whistleblower.  

In the mid 1990s, an out of work actor, writer and comedian was approached to work for a private investigations firm in South London.It was during the era that Southern Investigations and the suspects in the Daniel Morgan murder were pioneering the dark arts of press intrusion. Over the next 15 years, John Ford had an extraordinary career working for the Insight team and news desk at the Sunday Times. 

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