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Exclusive: Met supergrass scandal - corrupt private investigators infiltrate witness-protection programme
Police officers knew for years about the crucial security breach - but did nothing about it...............
Days after the Metropolitan Police was rocked by incendiary claims that officers took part in a smear
campaign against the family of the murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence,The Independent
can disclose that private investigators (PIs) were employed by organised crime gangs to try to
intimidate witnesses who had agreed to give evidence in high-profile trials.
Scotland Yard uncovered the shocking intelligence up to 15 years ago but, incredibly, did next to
nothing to stop the private detectives, who also worked for the News Of The World.
A registered police informant codenamed "Michael Green", who spent years undercover working
with a corrupt firm of PIs, warned his handlers at the Met that his colleagues were trying to locate
"supergrasses" under police protection and "actively worked on them to withdraw their damaging allegations
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