Senior officer denies using false evidence to frame murder suspects

  A senior Met Police officer today (Mon) denied knowingly using false evidence from a paid supergrass to frame four suspects in 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,…