THE chairman of The Metropolitan Police Authority has written to the Home Secretary calling for a judicial probe into the murder of Cwmbran private detective Daniel Morgan.

Kit Malthouse, who is also deputy to London mayor Boris Johnson, has written to Home Secretary Theresa May calling for a judicial inquiry into the death of Daniel Morgan in 1987, it was reported.

Mr Morgan was found with an axe in his head in a pub car park on March 10, 1987.

Nobody has been brought to justice despite five police inquiries and three years of legal hearings, estimated to have cost around £30 million.

The case against three menaccused of his murder was abandoned in March, prompting his family to call for a judicial inquiry.

The family were quoted at the time as saying the criminal justice system was not “fit for purpose.”

In his letter the deputy mayor said the MPA unanimously supported a full inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr Morgan, and the investigations that followed and the collapse of the trial on March 11, 2011.

It was reported that it was his second letter to the minister, having written to her earlier in the year.