jonathan rees was convicted in 2000 of arranging with a police officer to plant drugs to discredit anquiry has been hearing evidence from the father of two former pupils at a boarding school for disabled children, who contracted hiv. john peach's sons were among scores of pupils at treloar�*s college in hampshire to be given contaminated blood products in the 1970s and �*80s to treat their haemophilia. our health correspondentjim reed is following the inquiry. what is following the inquiry. more did we hear today? t public what more did we hear today? this public inquiry. _ what more did we hear today? try 3 public inquiry, it looks into what happened in the 70s and 80s, when large numbers of haemophiliacs in the uk lost their lives after being given a form of treatment for haemophilia that was later found to be contaminated with hepatitis and hiv. this week, the focus is purely on a school in hampshire called treloar�*s college which cared for large numbers, more than a hundred of young haemophiliacs in the late 70s and early 80s. we heard this morning from a man called john peach.

jonathan rees was a key suspect, daniel morgan's business partner.he had wanted friends in the police to arrange the murder so that another officer, sid fillery, could leave the force and take daniel'sjob, which actually happened. the accusation was undermined because the accuser had a fraud conviction. both men have strongly denied being involved and they were acquitted of related charges, but the panel says lines of inquiry weren't properly followed up. this report is enormous and damning. it details forms of corruption at all levels, from the tolerance of poor investigations to police officers drinking with people on the limits of legality. but most of all, it says that the metropolitan police concealed or denied its failings. in short, that it was dishonest. today's report finds that in 2005, during a review of the case, the met failed to identify deficiencies in its own police work. in 2011, the force made a statement on possible corruption, but failed to make it clear that police officers might have been involved in the murder itself. and when

in 2008, five people were charged including daniel morgan's former business partner jonathan rees.t duncan campbell has followed this case. he is looking forward to the report which will examine corruption and links between police, private detectives and the press. i think it's extremely important because i hope that it will be the culmination of a lot of research and investigation into what went wrong. something went very, very badly wrong. and i think there will be some very uncomfortable people within both the police and in private detection services with what the panel come up with, but we will have to wait and see. the independent panel, commissioned by the home office, has had a mammoth task. it's combed through 100,000 documents, interviewed scores of witnesses, taken eight years, cost £16 million. unsurprisingly perhaps, its final report is 1200 pages long. thanks to the latest line of duty and popular podcasts, millions more people know of the family's campaign. she'd seen the success of a podcast about police corruption surrounding the murder of a private detective, danie

jonathan rees was convicted in 2000 of arranging with a police officer to plant drugs to discredit athdrawing its forces from afghanistan by september. the headlines on bbc news: two of the england football team, mason mount and ben chilwell, will miss tonight�*s euro 2020 match with the czech republic because they�*re self—isolating, after being in close contact with scotland s billy gilmour. the government says it�*s committed to levelling up educational opportunity after a report from a group of mps accused the education system of letting down white working—class pupils. official figures have shown the lowest number of covid related deaths in a week in the uk since the august bank holiday of last year. the spanish government has pardoned nine catalan separatist leaders who were jailed over the failed bid for independence in 2017. they were serving sentences of nine to thirteen years. earlier, spain�*s prime minister, pedro sanchez addressed the nation. i want to stand in front - of the spanish people to explain that the cabinet has agreed - to pardon the nine catalan leaders who r

in 2008, five people were charged including daniel morgan's former business partner jonathan rees.it should never have happened in the first place. the prosecution should have never even been started. jonathan rees and other defendants later sued the metropolitan police for malicious prosecution and won substantial damages. for decades, the journalist duncan campbell has followed this case. he is looking forward to the report which will examine corruption and links between police, private detectives and the press. i think it's extremely important because i hope that it will be the culmination of a lot of research and investigation into what went wrong. something went very, very badly wrong. and i think there will be some very uncomfortable people within both the police and in private detection services with what the panel come up with, but we will have to wait and see. the independent panel, commissioned by the home office, has had a mammoth task. it's combed through 100,000 documents, interviewed scores of witnesses, taken eight years, cost £16 million. unsurprisingly perhaps, its

white house reporter jonathan lami ree is here, charlie sykes and donna edwards is here. donna edwards, both parties tend to extrapolate too much from a win or a loss but this size of her win seems to be a sure sign as if we needed another that the republican attacks just aren't landing. >> i think that's true and also i think if you look at special elections it is particularly hard to get voters to turn out in a special election. i ran in one in a summer and it is like pulling teeth to get voters to the polls so i think democrats are heartened not only did they have the right message, they had momentum and able to raise resources that it took to turn voters out and then a candidate in stansbury who ran closely woven to the biden agenda which as it turns out is popular with the american people. and republicans just had nothing really to throw up against it except a tired old worn-out defund the police strategy that just didn't work in this special election so i think that bodes well for the way that democrats need to run in the fall and the president demonstrated not only

daniel morgan, jonathan rees�* business partner, was found killed with an axe wound in a pub car parkt the end of the year. and it worked well. so him dying caused me a massive amount of grief, financially and business—wise, because the partnership ceased to exist. but it wasn�*t a great idea, was it, to put sid fillery, your friend from the police, into daniel�*s job after his death? it�*s not stepping into dead man�*s shoes. that wasn�*t the phrase i used, that�*s a phrase you used. i�*m telling you, that�*s what�*s in the report and that�*s what people have said in their statements. daniel died in march. it was 18 months, in fact, nearly two years later before i invited sid to come and join us. i�*d been arrested by hampshire, this was in �*89. so i was banished on bail up to south yorkshire and had no one to run the office. in terms of the report, it finds that the met were, in ways, corrupt. institutionally corrupt. i don�*t accept that. you don�*t accept that? but that was the key finding of the report. well, i think that a relationship between a journalist or private investigat