We in Britain like to look at everyone, but we don’t like to look at ourselves and that is very true of the Government of today and the Metropolitan Police and the press. What did you think about the scrapping of Leveson Part Two? You’ve got an organisational agenda and then within an organisation the people and you’ve got so many different agendas. Do you think all of this is indicative of bungling incompetence or is there more to it than that? No further action was taken on that as well.
Then, in 2017, despite having previously cleared me and despite the fact there was no new intelligence information or evidence – other than the judgment of a judge who didn’t get to hear my side of the story (in Rees’ civil case) – they decided to conduct another criminal investigation into me. Though you never appeared as a witness, Rees won his case for malicious prosecution in 2016? They failed to tell the court in any regard that I was under criminal investigation for the very subject they wanted me to give evidence about. But, of course, all of these questions, if you’re under criminal investigation, should only ever be asked under police caution. They said they had a whole list of questions they wanted to ask me about it. The Met was investigating me for the very subject they wanted me to make the witness statement about. In 2016, I came up to Scotland and a letter got sent to my partner’s house, asking if I’d be a witness in the civil action of Jonathan Rees – I knew in the distance this was going on but I didn’t know any of the details about it. Daniel Morgan’s former business partner, Jonathan Rees, was arrested three times on suspicion of involvement in the murder and launched a case against the Met Police for malicious prosecution. They took my laptops and all that away and, two weeks after that, there was another investigation. I think they wanted an excuse to search my house. But in 2014, I had a visit again from the Met Police to my door and they told me I was under investigation for coercing Eaton as a witness – misconduct of public office. There was an allegation I coerced Gary Eaton (an informant in the Daniel Morgan case), but the Met clearly stated in 2012 there was no criminal misconduct, without any new information or evidence. Was that 2012 investigation into you the only one? Do I think there’s a conspiracy theory attached to it? I’m not a lover of conspiracy theories, but the day they came to my door is the day I was put forward as a core participant at Leveson. It’s funny because I had really wanted to give evidence at Leveson, but the fact that they had then started to put me under criminal investigation meant that, from the advice of my solicitors, I couldn’t. They started to investigate my relationship with Sun reporter Mike Sullivan. In an exclusive interview, he tells James Doleman what happened next… JD: What happened around the Leveson Inquiry in 2012?ĭC: In January 2012, I got a knock on the door from the Independent Office for Police Conduct.
Cook was then set to become a core participant in the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press at the beginning of 2012.
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Detective Chief Superintendent David Cook, who supervised the fifth and final investigation into the murder of Daniel Morgan, has been described by the Morgan family as the only Metropolitan Police detective they ever trusted.īut a trial of the murder suspects in 2011 collapsed because of claims around his handling of ‘supergrass’ witnesses and the weight of undisclosed evidence.
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