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jake fury on 23 Jun 12A major Scotland Yard investigation has ended in failure after three men were acquitted of charges over the 1987 murder of a private investigator who was found with an axe embedded in his head in a pub car park. The family of Daniel Morgan immediately called for a judicial inquiry, saying: "The criminal justice system is not fit for purpose." They are bewildered by the fact that the case never reached a jury and that it collapsed after 18 months of legal argument during which the police were in effect on trial, accused by defence lawyers of failing to disclose potentially relevant material. No one has been brought to justice despite five police inquiries and three years of legal hearings, unofficially estimated to have cost around £30m. The first investigation into Morgan's murder, immediately after his killing, is feared to have seen the real killers shielded from justice by police corruption. The Met has privately admitted that corruption in the late 1980s aided the killers in avoiding justice. Senior officers vowed to right the wrongs of the past, but it is unlikely that Morgan's family will see the police, courts or judges deliver justice. At the Old Bailey on Friday - a day after the 24th anniversary of his killing - the Crown Prosecution Service formally dropped the case against Morgan's former business partner Jonathan Rees and brothers Garry and Glenn Vian, who had all been charged with murder. A fourth man, Jimmy Cook, was cleared of murder at an earlier hearing. Sid Fillery, a former police detective from Catford, was cleared of attempting to pervert the course of justice at an earlier hearing. Fillery had moonlighted at Southern Investigations, the private detective firm in which Morgan was a partner. The CPS is believed to have concluded that it could not provide sufficient guarantees to the court that every document held by police over the course of 24 years of investigations which the defence might want to study had been ha