They are bewildered by the fact that the case never reached a jury and that it collapsed after 18 months of legal argument during which the police were in effect on trial, accused by defence lawyers of failing to disclose potentially relevant material.
No one has been brought to justice despite five police inquiries and three years of legal hearings, unofficially estimated to have cost around £30m.
The first investigation into Morgan's murder, immediately after his killing, is feared to have seen the real killers shielded from justice by police corruption.
The Met has privately admitted that corruption in the late 1980s aided the killers in avoiding justice.'