That's the end of our rolling coverage of the report from the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel, and the reaction to it.

Mr Morgan was murdered in 1987 - but no one has ever been brought to justice for his killing, despite five separate inquiries.

Today's report - which was eight years in the making - accused the Metropolitan Police of a "form of institutional corruption" for how it handled its own failings.

The report also highlights repeated failings in the investigation, and says there were allegations that police officers were involved in the killing.

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Theresa May - who comissioned the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel when home secretary in 2013 - has given her reaction to today's report.

"This is a very hard hitting report, it's a damning report, it reveals, sadly, significant corruption in the Metropolitan Police," she tells Sky News.

"My thoughts are with Daniel Morgan's family today, because this has been a 34 year battle for them, to find some sense of understanding what happened around the killing of their brother."

Here's more from the Met's Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave - repeating his message that his boss, Commissioner Cressida Dick, should not resign.

"The commissioner is exactly the right person, given her own reputation for personal integrityand intellectual ability, to take this report, understand the implications and recommendations, and take this organisation and continue on its journey…

"But of course she will take this report absolutely seriously and will want to think very carefully about how we take the benefit from it and move forward productively to make a better service."

Here are some more lines from the BBC interview with Alastair Morgan:

On Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick's position: "She's definitely been - shall we say - less than helpful with this inquiry. I would certainly not be sorry to see her go."

On the future: "We need police reform...a whole change in ethos in our police. They're a public service, they're not there to mess us around, and ruin innocent people's lives, that's not their job, and they need to wise up to that quickly."

On Daniel's memory: "It's not like the wounds can heal in this type of envorionment when you've got lies, incompetence, corruption, secrecy, dishonesty, shiftiness, over the murder. It's always there...I don't feel comfortable in my own skin in this county after this experience."

Here's more from Alastair Morgan, who says today's report is a "kind of vindication".

"There's still a huge amount of anger inside me that I've had to go to these lengths to get this kind of honesty out of the police," he says.

In a new BBC interview, Daniel Morgan's brother Alastair says the effect of the police's failings have been "terribly destrutive" for him and his family.

"We knew it was corruption in this case," he tells our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds. "We knew we were being lied to again and again and again."

A clip of BBC News BBC from 3 April 1987.

Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave is asked if Commissioner Cressida Dick should consider her position at the Met.

"No," Ephgrave replies.

"The commissioner... oversaw that disclosure" and had to deal with "very difficult, sensitive material" and was done "to the best of her ability," he states.

"Any suffering that we have caused to the Morgan family I deeply regret," he says, "clearly we haven't got the balance right."

He says there needs to be a balance struck between protecting the identities of those in covert operations and policing tactics, with the need to be transparent with the Independent Panel.

"We've tried our best, as far as I'm aware," to provide the independent panel "with the information it needs" over the past "five or six" years, Nick Ephgrave continues in his BBC interview.

"I regret absolutely if" this "has not been balanced correctly," Ephgrave continues, "if the panel feel we haven't taken the right approach, it certainly has not been the intention of ours to do anything other than to support the panel in their work."

Analysis: Drinking sessions and selling storiespublished at 17:29 British Summer Time 15 June 2021

17:29 BST 15 June 2021

Tom Symonds
Home Affairs Correspondent

The early years of the Daniel Morgan saga experienced policing that was "poor or below accepted standards", while there was a "historical phenomenon" of regular drinking sessions in which officers mixed with local figures "operating on the fringes of legality".

More serious was evidence that stories were sold by the police to the press; misuse of the police national computer; and the planting of false evidence.

The inquiry also found links between "personnel at the highest levels of the Metropolitan Police and people working for a news organisation linked to criminality associated with the murder of Daniel Morgan". The evidence relates to dealings with the News of the World.

The panel strongly criticises the Met for impeding its investigation by failing to co-operate with elements of its work.

The Met has at times accepted failings in the Morgan case, and suggested corruption was to blame, but when asked to explain what this meant, the panel said often little detail was provided.

The force also placed barriers in the way of the inquiry when the panel asked for a computer terminal so that it could access the police Holmes investigation database.

A series of recommendations includes better vetting of police officers and a requirement for police officers to register their membership of any organisation, including the freemasons.

More from Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave's interview with the BBC:

"I need to understand exactly the evidence and the basis" for the independent panel saying that the Met Police "stopped" the panel from getting the information they needed, he says.

When asked why some documents weren't available to the panel until this year, Mr Ephgrave says "there's been an ongoing disclosure process with the panel, so they haven't asked for some documents until this year".

"We have provided unparalleled access to material to the panel over a number of years."

• From the beginning, there were allegations police officers were involved in the murder, and that corruption by police officers played a part in protecting the murderer(s) from being brought to justice
• The crime scene was not searched and was left unguarded; alibis were not sought for suspects
• Serving and retired officers told the panel some officers who tried to report wrongdoing by other officers were ostracised, transferred to a different unit, encouraged to resign, or faced disciplinary proceedings
• An investigation into the force by an external force, Hampshire Police, was compromised by the inclusion of a senior Met officer on the team
• Then-Assistant Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick initially refused to grant access to a police internal data system and the most sensitive information

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• Born in Singapore on 3 November 1949
• Grew up in Monmouthshire and after school attended agricultural college in Usk
• After college he travelled to Denmark to gain practical experience in farming
• Became sales representative for a British company in Scandinavia and later returned to the UK and worked as a travel guide
• In his late twenties he married Iris and they set up home in Norwood, South London and had two children, Sarah and Daniel
• He began working as a private investigator in London in January 1977 and in 1980 set up his own private investigation business
• He was murdered on the evening of 10 March 1987 in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham, south-east London

Source: Daniel Morgan Independent Panel, external

Here's more from Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave's interview with the BBC.

He says his "sense of institutional corruption" is that it's a term that hasn't been used "until now".

"My sense of the Metropolitan Police Service is that every single day its men and women go out to provide the best they can to provide service to Londoners," he states.

"I don't see that as a picture of a corrupt service."

Analysis: This is about as serious as it getspublished at 17:11 British Summer Time 15 June 2021

17:11 BST 15 June 2021

Mark Easton
Home editor

For an inquiry commissioned by the home secretary [Theresa May in 2013] to accuse a police force of a form of "institutional corruption" is about as serious a finding as it is possible to imagine.

Legitimacy is the vital ingredient in the British approach of policing by consent.

Today’s report, therefore, represents a major crisis for the Met in general and for its Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick in particular.

In simple terms, the force is accused of putting its corporate reputation ahead of the search for truth.

Dame Cressida has been personally criticised for obstructing the panel’s work, causing delays which added further and unnecessary distress to the family of a murder victim.

The commissioner has made it clear she is not resigning - and the prime minister has said she has his backing.

Scotland Yard is denying it sought to hamper the inquiry.

But unlike other institutional scandals affecting the Met this is not just about historical or operational failings.

This is about a culture which the panel says exists to this day - and evidence of which can be traced to the desk of the woman who currently heads the force.

The head of frontline policing at the Metropolitan Police, Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave, has also apologised to Daniel Morgan's family.

Speaking in an interview with the BBC, Mr Ephgrave said "I do want to again apologise for our repeated failure to bring those responsible for Daniel's murder to justice.

"I recognise that that failure has only added to the pain and anguish the family have felt for these nearly four decades, and for that, I sincerely apologise."

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The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Cressida Dick, has released the following statement in response to today's report into Daniel Morgan's 1987 murder.

"I would like to acknowledge, both personally and on behalf of the Met, the extraordinary resilience and determination of Daniel Morgan's family in their pursuit of the truth and for the conviction of those responsible for his murder.

"It is a matter of great regret that no one has been brought to justice and that our mistakes have compounded the pain suffered by Daniel's family. For that I apologise again now.

"I have been personally determined that the Met provided the [Independent] Panel with the fullest level of co-operation in an open and transparent manner, with complete integrity at all times.

"I recognise this is a powerful and wide-ranging report. We will take the necessary time to consider it and the associated recommendations in their entirety."

The Metropolitan Police is expected to give a full response this afternoon to the findings of the independent panel report into the unsolved murder of Daniel Morgan.

While we wait for that, we will pause our coverage for a short while.

You will be able to find the response on the BBC website later.

• The Metropolitan Police has been accused of "a form of institutional corruption" for concealing or denying failings over the unsolved murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan.
• The chair of the independent panel Baroness Nuala O'Loan said the force's first objective was to "protect itself" for failing to acknowledge its mistakes since his murder in 1987
• The family of Mr Morgan welcomed the report. They said the report recognised the family was "failed over the decades by a culture of corruption and cover up in the Metropolitan Police, an institutionalised corruption that has permeated successive regimes in the Metropolitan Police and beyond to this day."
• Home Secretary Priti Patel said it is "devastating" no-one has been brought to justice 34 years after Mr Morgan's murder
• She said ministers will "carefully review" the report's findings.
• In a statement the Metropolitan Police said: "We deeply regret our failure to bring those who murdered Daniel Morgan to justice."

Downing Street has said the prime minister still has confidence in the Metropolitan Police commissioner, following the publication of the Daniel Morgan report.

Daniel Morgan's family has said Dame Cressida Dick should "absolutely" be considering her position, in light of the report's conclusion that the force was "institutionally corrupt".

Asked if Boris Johnson still had full confidence in Dame Cressida, his official spokesman simply replied: "Yes."