Five charged over '87 private eye axe murder

By Andrew Hough

LONDON (Reuters) - Five men, including a former Scotland Yard officer, were due to appear in court on Thursday, in connection with the murder of a private detective in 1987.

Daniel Morgan, 37, was repeatedly attacked with an axe in a pub car park in Sydenham, south London, Scotland Yard said.

The father-of-two, from Monmouthshire, was found with the weapon still embedded in his head after he left a 90-minute meeting with his business partner.

Detectives said his 900-pound Rolex watch was missing but about 1,100 pounds in cash was still in his pocket.

Police charged four men with murder on Wednesday.

They were William John Rees -- Morgan's 53-year-old business partner -- of Weybridge, Surrey; unemployed Glenn Barry Vian, 49, of South Croydon, Surrey; Vian's brother, Garry, 47, who is also unemployed, of no fixed address and builder James Cook, 53, from Tadworth, Surrey.

Sidney Alexander Fillery, 61, a pub landlord from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, was charged with perverting the course of justice.

Fillery, a former Scotland Yard detective sergeant, was part of the original team which investigated Morgan's death.