A FORMER Liss man who was left devastated when a high-profile case linked to his brother's brutal death collapsed two years ago has won the right to an independent review into the circumstances surrounding his unsolved murder.

Daniel Morgan was found with an axe embedded in his skull in the car park of a south London pub in 1987.

Now, nearly a quarter of a century later, Alastair, his brother, who lived for a number of years in Liss where he ran a window and carpet cleaning business and worked as a reporter on the Petersfield Herald, has welcomed the decision by Home Secretary Theresa May to appoint an independent panel, despite five investigations to examine claims that police corruption was behind a failed conviction.

"What we have been required to endure has been nothing less than mental torture," Mr Morgan said this week.

"Through almost three decades of public protests, meetings with police officers at the highest ranks, lobbying of politicians and pleas to the media, we have found ourselves lied to, fobbed off, bullied, degraded and let down time and time again," he claimed.

Included in the process will be an examiniation of the results of an outside inquiry carried out by Hampshire Police from 1988 to 1990 which cleared the Metropolitan Police of corruption.

For full story, see this week's Petersfield Herald.