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Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder

Carrying the Burden

Season 1, Ep. 10

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?

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

    24:20
    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?
  • 10. Fearless

    25:30
    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.
  • 9. Spyware

    31:14
    Murdoch's News UK empire has now admitted computer hacking in alliance with Southern Investigations. But just who was targeted? And why did the police not intervene?
  • 8. Labyrinth of Lies

    27:59
    The Ghost Squad arrests in the 90s around Southern Investigations reveal three overlapping Empires of Crime, according to Untouchables co-author Laurie Flynn
  • 7. Hotline to Crime

    31:50
    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
  • 6. The Stephen Lawrence Murder

    29:29
    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.
  • 5. Masters of the Dark Arts

    32:30
    As Rees and Fillery make Southern Investigations a one stop shop for the press in the 90s, using blagging, bugging, and police bribes, they also pioneer the modern arts of cybercrime, fake news, kompromat and the tabloid sting for the News of the World and its most famous journalist - the Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood.
  • 4. The Wire

    34:20
    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
  • 3. The Wider Web

    26:15
    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? What is the hard evidence those two violent deaths in the summer of 1987 were connected?