A MAN who campaigning for justice after his brother was murdered 28 years ago told MPs and peers of his fear the press was used to hush up any investigation.

Alastair Morgan’s private investigator brother Daniel, who had lived in Llanfrechfa, Cwmbran was found dead with an axe embedded in his head in Sydenham, South London in March 1987.

Four failed police investigations have never found who killed Mr Morgan.

His former business partner was charged with murder in 2008 but a trial collapsed in 2011 because of a problem with evidence.

And Alastair Morgan told a panel, which included shadow home secretary Andy Burnham, the national press was keen to join forces with the private investigator firm rather than attempt to expose them.

He said: “When the private investigator took over my brother’s company with the prime suspect you’d think the British press would be scratching their heads and saying: ‘Hey, what’s going on here?’ But not a bit of it.

“They saw it as a business opportunity and within weeks of my brother’s murder the News of the World was in business with them. There were commercial transactions that went on and which continued well over a decade. And not just the News of the World. There was also Mirror group newspapers and those are the ones that we know of.

“I knew there was corruption in the investigation within three weeks of my brother’s murder, I had seen it.”

Last year the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe admitted the investigation had been a “terrible state of affairs”.

Mr Burnham, along with Alastair Morgan, have called for the second strand of the Leveson Inquiry to get the go ahead by the Westminster Government.

But it has cast doubt on whether it thinks the investigation on the culture, practices and ethics of the British press is necessary.