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HILLSBOROUGH - THE TRUTH PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Phil Scraton | 496 pages | 16 Jun 2016 | Mainstream Publishing | 9781910948019 | English | Edinburgh, United Kingdom Hillsborough - The Truth PDF Book Taylor concluded his criticism of South Yorkshire Police by describing senior officers in command as "defensive and evasive witnesses" who refused to accept any responsibility for error: "In all some 65 police officers gave oral evidence at the Inquiry. At one point it was so bad that I developed a stock response. Cancel Delete comment. The Spectator. It has since fuelled persistent and unsustainable assertions about drunken fan behaviour". Retrieved 12 March The Stationery Office, London. One supporter wrote to the Football Association and Minister for Sport complaining, "The whole area was packed solid to the point where it was impossible to move and where I, and others around me, felt considerable concern for personal safety". Retrieved 30 April On 11 April , Liverpool fans sang "You'll Never Walk Alone" as a tribute to the upcoming anniversary of the disaster before the home game against Blackburn Rovers which ended in Liverpool winning 4—0 and was followed by former Liverpool player, Stephen Warnock presenting a memorial wreath to the Kop showing the figure 96 in red flowers. Was hooked on the extent to which the authorities buried the truth. Mackrell pleaded not guilty to the two charges against him. The extreme reaction to Mr Bigley's murder is fed by the fact that he was a Liverpudlian. Leeds United have arguably experienced the most dramatic upheaval in fortunes of any club in A book that should be read by everybody who seeks the truth from its society A disturbing account of what can happen when society's trusted institutions decide to distort the facts and lie to save their own skins regardless of the hurt they will cause the bereaved. After what we had seen in Sheffield, many of us imagined we were now unshockable. The Hillsborough disaster touched not only Liverpool, but clubs in England and around the world. Lord Taylor regarded spectator allocation as irrelevant to the disaster. Kelvin MacKenzie , the editor, considered a different headline. London Evening Standard : 1. Scarily detailed, horrible to think of what the families have been through. Fans of rival football clubs such as Manchester United [] have been known to mention the Hillsborough disaster at fixtures [b] to upset Liverpool fans. The nine members of the jury panel also declared that fans played no role in the events that caused the crush on the terraces. These families and their supporters never gave up in the face of police lies and cover-ups, and newspaper lies and smears of the worst kind. M by the Manic Street Preachers. By 22 October , the names of at least 1, serving and former police officers had been referred to the IPCC investigation. In , on the 20th anniversary of the disaster, Liverpool's request that their Champions League quarter-finals return leg , scheduled for 15 April, be played the day before was granted. James Murdoch made a full apology for The Sun 's coverage when he appeared at a hearing of the House of Commons Select committee dealing with the News International phone hacking scandal in The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal human crush during a football match at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield , South Yorkshire , England, on 15 April Liverpool and Nottingham Forest met in the semi-final at Hillsborough in , and fans reported crushing at the Leppings Lane end. Hillsborough - The Truth Writer The programme can be heard here. Kuala Lumpur. As a result of the disaster, Liverpool's scheduled fixture [b] against Arsenal was delayed from 23 April until the end of the season and eventually decided the league title. Transcripts of the proceedings and evidence that was produced during the hearings were published at the Hillsborough Inquests official website. Community Reviews. In , the FA decided all FA Cup, Premier League, Football League and Football Conference matches played between 11—14 April, would kick-off seven minutes later than originally scheduled with a six-minute delay and a one-minute silence tribute. Retrieved 13 September Retrieved 2 April It emphasised the general situation at Hillsborough was satisfactory compared with most grounds. In December , Home Secretary Alan Johnson said the Hillsborough Independent Panel's remit would be to oversee "full public disclosure of relevant government and local information within the limited constraints set out in the disclosure protocol" and "consult with the Hillsborough families to ensure that the views of those most affected by the disaster are taken into account". On 30 April , a match organised by Celtic F. Jan 17, RON W. The Telegraph. In Crompton sent an email in which he said the families' "version of certain events has become 'the truth' even though it isn't". It was a fundamental mistake. Popper had excluded the witness evidence of two qualified Merseyside doctors Drs Ashton and Phillips who had been inside the stadium on the day and who had been critical of the chaotic emergency response. Nobody really had any comment on it—they just took one look and went away shaking their heads in wonder at the enormity of it. It was the day that Kelvin MacKenzie's Sun newspaper splashed its headline "The Truth" over lies fed to it, via Whites Press agency, by, the panel found, four senior South Yorkshire police officers. The injustice these poor fans and families had to endure for 23 years before it was put right can never be forgiven. Finally, 7 turnstiles lettered A to G provided access to 10, standing places in the lower tier of the West Stand. A must read, thorough account of the events during that tragic day. I remain pessimistic on that score. As is common at domestic matches in England, opposing supporters were segregated. Skip to the beginning of the images gallery. Retrieved 15 December In October , Sir Oliver Popplewell , who chaired the public inquiry into the Bradford City stadium fire at Valley Parade that killed 56 people, called on the families of the Hillsborough victims to look at the "quiet dignity and great courage relatives in the West Yorkshire city had shown in the years following the tragedy". Well worth reading but hard going at times. Archived from the original PDF on 5 May The second inquests were a hard won battle following the multiple flaws of the first inquests and a variety of inquiries and reviews. These families and their supporters never gave up in the face of police lies and cover-ups, and newspaper lies Finished reading Archived from the original on 27 September This revealed so much more to me though, the institutional cover-up, the lies, the horrendous way that the familes and survivors have been treated from literally moments after the disaster genuinely beggars belief. A provisional trial date of 14 January was set. Please be respectful when making a comment and adhere to our Community Guidelines. The police became a convenient scapegoat, and the Sun newspaper a whipping-boy for daring, albeit in a tasteless fashion, to hint at the wider causes of the incident. Hillsborough - The Truth Reviews I remain pessimistic on that score. Main article: Hillsborough film. Comments Share your thoughts and debate the big issues. It has little to do with truth and justice. London Evening Standard : 1. Scarily detailed, horrible to think of what the families have been through. The request to delay the start of the match by 20 minutes was declined. Using verbatim accounts, the book's detailed analysis demonstrates the inadequacy of the law and the inappropriate breadth of judicial discretion, which undermines and inhibits such cases. I have come to the clear conclusion that there is no basis upon which there should be a further Judicial Inquiry or a reopening of Lord Taylor's Inquiry. Not an angry person by nature but I hope that everyone involved in this sickening cover up spins in their graves. The words should have been reassuring but they set the stage for the most egregious lies. Wright said: "The request has been submitted by a firm of solicitors in Liverpool acting on behalf of a number of individuals affected by the event. Well worth reading but hard going at times. Retrieved 12 April Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. Liverpool lodged a complaint before the match in The evidence it released online, included altered police reports. In December , it was announced that a police officer and a farrier would not be prosecuted over allegations that they fabricated a story about a police horse being burned with cigarettes at Hillsborough. Ofcom also received complaints. The extreme reaction to Mr Bigley's murder is fed by the fact that he was a Liverpudlian. Archived from the original on 22 August In , Anfield was packed with a crowd of around 10, people ten years after the disaster. David Conn. Firefighters did not let down the dead of Grenfell. Welcome back. It has taken more than two decades, , documents and a two-year inquiry to discover to my horror that it would have been far more accurate had I written the headline The Lies rather than The Truth. Retrieved 15 April These institutions are part of the lives of every single person in the country, making this an incredibly important book. MacKenzie not only disregarded that duty but created the environment where people in power could escape the consequences of their catastrophic failures, failures that led to 96 deaths and decades of misery for thousands of people.