Ambiguous

BBC Radio 5 just tweeted this:

5 live's @adriangoldberg reveals MP's call for the murder of a private investigator to be examined in #hacking inquiry. http://t.co/LCIfDBm

One for Quote Unquote. 

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[pat]

is this it, bish:

18 Aug: Fresh links between murdered investigator and NOTW
Daniel Morgan was found with an axe in his head. His partner, used by NOTW executives, was a suspect in the killing
By Oliver Wright and Cahal Milmo
A murdered private investigator said he was taking a story exposing police corruption, for which he was promised a payment of £40,000, to the News of the World a week before he died, it was claimed last night.
The BBC said it had evidence that Daniel Morgan had said he was to be given the money by Alex Marunchak, the NOTW's former crime editor. Mr Marunchak said last night he had never met Mr Morgan, who was found with an axe in his head in the car park of a south London pub in March 1987...
In a statement in BBC Radio 4's Report programme, Mr Marunchak said: "I have never met Mr Daniel Morgan and, prior to his death, I had never heard of his business Southern Investigations, nor Mr Morgan's business partner, Jonathan Rees."
The development came as the Independent Police Complaints Commission announced it will open an independent inquiry into allegations that John Yates might have secured a job for the daughter of the former NOTW executive Neil Wallis.
But the IPCC cleared Mr Yates, Sir Paul Stephenson and former Met police officers Peter Clarke and Andy Hayman of carrying out any conduct that breached police disciplinary codes over their roles in the original phone-hacking inquiry...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/fresh-links-between-murdered-investigator-and-notw-2339694.html

[Bishop Hill]

Yes, the link is in the tweet. I was just amused by the ambiguity of the tweet.

[TerryS]

So MP's have called for the murder of a private investigator and this incitement to murder is to be investigated by the hacking inquiry.

[Owen Morgan]

Yes, the BBC continues to try to do a Dr Frankenstein on that dead horse. The presenter seemed scandalised that thirteen people had been arrested in connection with the case, but no-one had been charged. A murder investigation which pulls in thirteen different suspects over several years is, I suggest, pretty well a definition of an investigation without a clue. Tom Watson, MP, (West Bromwich E., Lab.) is currently vocal in his pursuit of the case. The programme omitted to mention when Watson's interest in the murder, perpetrated in 1987, first arose. This site,

http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/about-tom-watson/

is curiously coy about what Watson was up to during the long thirteen years in which his party was in power and exploited very close relations with News International:

"Tom’s biography page is in need of updating. One day he’ll do it. One day. It can’t be worse than his wikipedia page, after all. If you want to talk to him though, please get in touch using the contact page."

One thing which struck me about the BBC programme was the way the presenter quoted freely from copies of witness statements. Are those really that accessible?