The real truth of Hillsborough is out
ON SECONDMENT from my day job, I have worked with the Hillsborough families’ legal teams throughout, preparing in-depth background papers drawn from the catalogue of documents I researched.
Ninety-six football fans were unlawfully killed
How could criminal investigations, the original inquests, a judicial scrutiny of all evidence and successive governments all have been so wrong?
In 2012, as I stood before families and survivors in Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral to deliver the 153 findings of the Hillsborough Independent Panel, the cloud began to lift.
Our two-year, in-depth examination of two million documents was unambiguous.
For 27 years I have known the truth of Hillsborough.
On the night of the disaster I met fans returning to Liverpool.
In-depth examination of two million documents was unambiguous
Young, old, men, women, all in shock recounting the same story.
Hillsborough had been a death trap.
Herded into already full pens like cattle, trapped and helpless, rescue and evacuation coming too late.
The truth has now been recognised by a jury in a court of law
Yet a counter narrative was already under way.
And the truth, first revealed in my book and then in the Panel’s report, has now been recognised by a jury in a court of law.