It's the late 1980's....15th April 1989 to be precise. 96 Liverpool FC supporters are crushed to death purely because senior police officers cocked it all up.
For 23 years we've all KNOWN that. With the exception of a few Manchester United supporters chanting "You should have all died at Hillsborough' to the sickeningly jaunty tune of 'Guantanamera' mainly in revenge for Liverpool fans chanting 'Always look on rhe runway for ice' to 'Always Look On The Brightside Of Life' referring to the 1950's Munich air disaster.....The Hillsborough disaster transcended football rivalries.
We all knew it was a police cock up.
Smearing the supporters in order to blame them was unforgiveable as was the 'cover up'.
Statements systematically altered included "Sergeants and Inspectors appeared to be aimlessly milling about.....There did not appear to be any leadership" from a PC Hood. This statement was hidden.
I know it was 23 years ago and, supposedly, time heals, but how can time heal for the families of the dead when their names have been smeared consistantly by the police?
It wasn't the poor 'plods' it was the officers in charge.
They cocked up - a human error. A terrible one perhaps, but to err is to be human.
96 innocent people died as a result.
Then the officers systematically set about to smear the dead and the survivors to cover their own incompetence.
The error was awful but there go I or any of us if we make a bad call.....
The lies told are the unforgiveable bits.....It's for those the appropriate people should pay.
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