>Scotland Yard detectives who were uncovering links between organised crime and the flagship London borough preparing to host the Olympic Games had their investigation and careers wrecked by a ‘political’ and ‘fatally flawed’ corruption probe, a dossier of secret police intelligence reveals.
>McKelvey’s team had been making significant headway investigating organised crime activity in the Olympic borough linked to notorious local crime boss, David Hunt.
>The Newham detectives had also uncovered a corruption scandal involving murder, freemasonry and crooked deals which the Met and council were trying to suppress.
>McKelvey faced immediate pressure to ‘drop’ his investigation into a council contractor who was threatening to reveal far-reaching corruption in Newham council if his trial went ahead.
>The Untouchables (Met’s anti-corruption squad) undermined the prosecution by tainting McKelvey’s team with allegations that had been already investigated and dismissed as unfounded.
>Officers involved in Operation Kayu were afraid to voice their concerns that the targeting of McKelvey was ‘political’, the briefings given by senior Untouchables to prosecutors ‘over-hyped’ and the two trials therefore did not need to be abandoned
It's not that far fetched, apart from the masons bit. I once got a friendly warning about asking certain comments in relation to local government corruption in relation to road building.