The next several days will witness the busiest and most important time in the six years since Goggzilla began to cover the Daniel Morgan murder cover up and the six years prior to that concerning massive police corruption. The long awaited appeal of Jonathan Rees and the Vian Brothers is to be heard. Non disclosure of evidence forms part of it, as does perjury, perverting the course of justice (take a bow, DCS Dave Cook) and malfeasance in public office.
Thus far, £140 million has been squandered from the tax payer, in attempts by New Scotland Yard to fit up Garry and Glenn Vian and Jonathan Rees. I have heard optimistic and pessimistic assessments of what will occur in London shortly, The Met would be wise to pay up and walk away, with some damage limitation. Carrot has never been their favourite method, only stick, a “worse case scenario” will see much dirty laundry aired.
This article from the Grauniad popped up, it may be relevant at some stage. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/05/ex-trump-aide-paul-manafort-approved-black-ops-to-help-ukraine-president
It will in interesting to see who is going to give the verdict in Rees and Vians v The Metropolitan Police.
The problem is the Met isn’t the only corrupt entity. The judiciary very often serve the state rather than justice. So judges can keep their hands clean, the Establishment starts off with one judge and then changes him for another. The second judge is the ‘executioner’.
We shall see how much of a strangle hold plod have over the judiciary. The trouble with throwing us a minnow is that far bigger fish are implicated.