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Jonathan Rees
Jonathan Rees is a British private investigator, and former partner of murdered private investigator Daniel Morgan.
Born in September 1954 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, Rees left school and joined the Merchant Navy, then became an investigator. In 1984, with partner Daniel Morgan, he set up a detective agency, Southern Investigations, in Thornton Heath, Surrey.
In April 1987, Rees was arrested on suspicion of the murder of Daniel Morgan but was released without charge.
Between Morgan's death in 1987 and 2008, five police inquiries were conducted, at a cost to date[when?] of £140 million. There were allegations of police corruption, drug trafficking and robbery.
After an inquiry by Hampshire police in 1988, Rees and another man were charged with murder, but the case did not reach trial when charges were dropped because of a lack of evidence, and the Hampshire inquiry's 1989 report to the Police Complaints Authority found "no evidence whatsoever of police involvement in the murder".
In 1998, Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Roy Clark conducted a third, secret, inquiry into the murder during which Southern Investigations' office was bugged by a known paid police informer. In December 2000, Rees was found guilty of conspiring to plant cocaine on an innocent woman in order to discredit her in a child custody battle and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for attempting to pervert the course of justice.
After the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair declared that the first police inquiry—that had included Detective Sergeant Sid Fillery, stationed at Catford police station—was "compromised", a secret fifth inquiry began. Later, police arrested Jonathan Rees and several others on suspicion of murder, along with a serving police officer suspected of leaking information.
In 2009 the trial began at the Old Bailey. In March 2011 the Director of Public Prosecutions abandoned the case and the three accused were acquitted, including Rees.
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Jonathan Rees
Jonathan Rees is a British private investigator, and former partner of murdered private investigator Daniel Morgan.
Born in September 1954 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, Rees left school and joined the Merchant Navy, then became an investigator. In 1984, with partner Daniel Morgan, he set up a detective agency, Southern Investigations, in Thornton Heath, Surrey.
In April 1987, Rees was arrested on suspicion of the murder of Daniel Morgan but was released without charge.
Between Morgan's death in 1987 and 2008, five police inquiries were conducted, at a cost to date[when?] of £140 million. There were allegations of police corruption, drug trafficking and robbery.
After an inquiry by Hampshire police in 1988, Rees and another man were charged with murder, but the case did not reach trial when charges were dropped because of a lack of evidence, and the Hampshire inquiry's 1989 report to the Police Complaints Authority found "no evidence whatsoever of police involvement in the murder".
In 1998, Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Roy Clark conducted a third, secret, inquiry into the murder during which Southern Investigations' office was bugged by a known paid police informer. In December 2000, Rees was found guilty of conspiring to plant cocaine on an innocent woman in order to discredit her in a child custody battle and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for attempting to pervert the course of justice.
After the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair declared that the first police inquiry—that had included Detective Sergeant Sid Fillery, stationed at Catford police station—was "compromised", a secret fifth inquiry began. Later, police arrested Jonathan Rees and several others on suspicion of murder, along with a serving police officer suspected of leaking information.
In 2009 the trial began at the Old Bailey. In March 2011 the Director of Public Prosecutions abandoned the case and the three accused were acquitted, including Rees.