Daniel Morgan’s family said they had been “lied to, fobbed off, bullied and degraded” by Met officers Scotland Yard has apologised to the family of a private detective killed in south-east London in 1987 for a corrupt investigation into his death.
Daniel Morgan, 37, was found with an axe in his head in Sydenham but nobody has ever been convicted of murder.
Metropolitan Police (Met) acting commissioner Tim Godwin has admitted there were “failings” by officers. The entire legal case collapsed last month.
Mr Morgan’s family has called for a full judicial inquiry.
This was “urgently required”, his relatives said in a statement.
“Through two decades and more of public protests, meetings with police officers at the highest ranks, lobbying of politicians and pleas to the media, we have found ourselves lied to, fobbed off, bullied, degraded and let down time and time again.
“What we have been required to endure has been nothing short of torture.”
Mr Morgan, a father-of-two from Monmouthshire, was found with an axe in his skull in the car park outside the Golden Lion pub.
Five people were arrested in 2008 but two, including a former detective accused of perverting the course of justice, were discharged when several supergrasses were discredited.
This month the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the case against the other three people – Mr Morgan’s former business partner, Jonathan Rees, and brothers Garry and Glenn Vian.
The cost of the five police inquiries and subsequent legal hearings has been estimated at about £30m.
The case has become one of Britain’s longest unsolved murders.
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