NEWS Shopper has joined the family of murdered private eye Daniel Morgan in calling for a judicial inquiry into police corruption during the investigation of his death.

Five separate Met Police investigations have failed to lead to a conviction since Mr Morgan was found with an axe in his head in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham in 1987.

In March this year, Acting Met Commissioner Tim Godwin admitted police corruption had thwarted the investigations and apologised to Mr Morgan’s family.

This followed the collapse of the trial of three men accused of murdering Mr Morgan, including his partner in Thornton Heath based detective firm Southern Investigations, Jonathan Rees.

It is believed 37-year-old Mr Morgan was planning to expose corruption in the Met just before he died.

Now the family of Mr Morgan have sent Home Secretary Theresa May a submission for a judicial inquiry into the investigation of his murder.

Mr Morgan’s brother Alistair, 62, from Islington, said: “For almost a quarter of a century, my family has done everything possible to secure justice for Daniel and to expose police corruption.

“For much of this time, we have encountered stubborn obstruction and worse at the highest levels of the Metropolitan Police.

“We have found an impotent police complaints system and met with inertia or worse on the part of successive governments.

“We have been failed utterly by all of the institutions designed to protect us.”

Mr Morgan added: “We’re delighted News Shopper is supporting our call for a judicial inquiry and we thank all of the editorial staff for having the courage to stand up and be counted.”

Mr Morgan’s family also want the inquiry to look into claims the Met failed to act in 2003 when it discovered News of the World (NotW) staff were allegedly harassing a detective investigating the murder.

NotW staff were allegedly doing this as a favour to 56-year-old Mr Rees, who was a suspect in the case at the time and had worked for the tabloid.