Arresting News of (Dis)organised Crime and Corruption

CASH INJECTION

The £30m ‘Gigantic Fraud’ on Multiple Sclerosis Sufferers A government-backed drug company claiming to have a ‘Holy Grail’ treatment for Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s and Covid-19 has collapsed and now faces an official probe amid allegations that thousands of vulnerable patients and shareholders are victims of a “gigantic fraud.” Daval International used political connections, celebrity friends and tame journalists to push an unproven serum called Aimspro as ‘a miracle drug [that] gets people out of wheelchairs’ and makes the blind see.  But after raising £30m over the past two decades, mainly from sufferers and their families, the company is being put

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TOO MANY COOKS

A Lost Chance To Solve The Daniel Morgan Murder Police and prosecutors investigating the axe murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan forfeited a chance to solve the notorious case, when one of the five prime suspects offered to confess and implicate others. The Upsetter can reveal that Jimmy Cook was willing to enter into a plea deal and admit to being the getaway driver and eyewitness to the gruesome murder that took place in a south London pub car park in 1987. While in prison awaiting trial for the murder, Cook offered to plead to the serious but lesser offence of

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THE LOVERS’ LANE MURDERS

Historic Gangland Execution Re-examined After Ex-Cop’s Corruption Claims The crime scene photos were unsettling even to the most weathered detective with a ready shield of flippancy. Two distorted torsos could be made out through a windscreen impacted by blood and human tissue. The man in the driving seat of the Mercedes was probably the first to be shot in the head at close range from the back seat. The 12-bore shotgun then turned on his girlfriend next to him. “It was one of the most vicious things I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen some ‘orrible things,” one veteran homicide detective

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PANEL BEATING

The Inside Story of Priti Patel’s Battle for the Daniel Morgan Report The family of Daniel Morgan are right to be “suspicious” of Priti Patel’s last minute block on publication of the long-awaited report into the private investigator’s notorious unsolved murder in 1987. Ludicrous reliance on the old chestnut of “national security” to justify stopping yesterday’s planned publication, after an 8-year inquiry costing £15m, has proved a spectacular own goal. It has left the Home Secretary looking even more shifty and dismissive of a family failed for 34 years by no less than five flawed police investigations and the entire criminal

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BLACK DEATH: AN UPDATE

Met police to examine corruption in 1959 racist murder   The Metropolitan police will examine corruption concerns surrounding the unsolved murder of a black man in Notting Hill after his family petitioned for an apology on the 62nd anniversary of his violent death at the hands of racists. It follows an exclusive article published by The Upsetter with journalist Mark Olden, whose investigation into the murder of Kelso Cochrane in 1959 has raised questions about the police handling of the case. Asked if the Met would apologise and support the Cochrane family’s call for release of National Archives files, that are

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