Detective denies misleading CPS over axe death

A senior detective has denied misleading the Crown Prosecution Service over the reliability of witnesses in a bid to solve the notorious axe murder of a 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, a case against…