Truth. Justice to follow?

When and where...

...would you think this had happened?

• 96 innocent people killed
• 41 of the 96 could have been saved if the police and ambulance crews had done their jobs
• All the deaths were caused by police action
• After a 23 year cover up, politicians of the time are even now blustering patent rubbish
• A chief officer involved in the cover up thinks he has nothing to hide or apologise for
• The police cover up started before the dead were cold
• The dead were all tested for blood alcohol levels, even a ten year old
• Those that had no trace of alcohol were checked for criminal records
• The police claimed the events were due to: drunkeness, ticketlessness, and violence
• There was no evidence of those claims standing up
• As the news broke to the families, the chief officer called a meeting of his top boys to agree a 'rock-solid story'
• As families were weeping in empty bedrooms, the police started feeding false information to the press and media
• 116 of 164 reports (71%) were altered to suit the 'rock-solid story'
• The dead had been exposed to the risk of attending an event in an unlicenced, uncertified arena – there has still been no apology for this
• The coroners were involved in the cover up, not considering the emergency service response minutes into the event
• Huge sums of taxpayers' money have been spent on defending the police in general and some officers in particular, employing top barristers at massive hourly rates

Russia under Stalin? Sheffield, under Thatcher.

Take a line through all events between Hillsborough and Ian Tomlinson's autopsy by the most inept pathologist in the country, specially called in for the job when off-duty at the time, and who do you trust? Corrupt police forces, corrupt from the very top down? The politicians that backed them?

If those families had not fought like dogs for twenty three years, the cover up would have remained just that. The attitude of Thatcher and her cabinet was that “some football fans had died, you know what they're like”. None of them has had the decency or humanity to apologise.