Investigator denies asset probe was manipulated in deal with grass

  A financial investigator today (Weds) denied an inquiry into a drug baron’s assets was manipulated in exchange for his evidence against suspects accused of an axe murder. Private eye Daniel Morgan, a partner in Southern Investigations, was found an axe buried in his head in the carpark of the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham, southeast London, in 1987. No one has ever been successfully prosecuted for the crime, despite five separate inquiries costing the taxpayer £50 million. In 2011,…