What a **** he is.
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So that email was in his personal capacity, but he threatens to move to remove any public funding.
Clearly a massive ****.
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Worse. He's clearly bigoted..
Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
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Sean O'Neill @TimesCrime
Breaking: West Yorkshire chief constable Sir Norman Bettison to retire in wake of Hillsborough report - sources say he has bn 'forced out'Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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Forced out as he'll be on trial soon?Hello mert.Comment
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Forced out but keeps his pension?Comment
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Yeah, no criminal conviction over conduct so keeps his pension. For now.Football without Origi is nothingComment
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Hull City fans where ejected from Hillsborough today for singing justice for the 96The times they are a changin'.Comment
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Good old Sheffield Wednesday and SYP.Comment
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Pressure grows on insurer over Hillsborough
Critics say RSA should be compelled to hand over documents relating to stadium disaster
One of Britain's biggest insurance companies is being urged to reveal Hillsborough's "final secrets", after it refused to hand over evidence to the inquiry into the disaster.
RSA, which acted as Sheffield Wednesday's insurer at the time of the tragedy, rejected the Hillsborough Independent Panel's repeated requests to open files relating to events before, during and after the fatal crush on 15 April 1989.
The panel report last month laid bare police attempts to push the blame for the disaster, which claimed 96 lives, on to Liverpool fans. The devastating exposure was assisted by almost half a million documents provided by parties including public bodies and bereaved families.
But the report revealed that one organisation had refused to co-operate fully – RSA, which, as Sun Alliance, insured the owner of the stadium. It stated: "The Royal Sun Alliance Insurance Company refused to waive its entitlement to privilege, thus denying the panel access to its material …. Strenuous efforts were made to persuade the company to allow the panel confidential access to the relevant material, but it maintained its refusal. This is a matter of considerable regret to the panel."
Critics have said that the refusal will prevent disclosure of discussions between authorities, including the police, the Football Association and the club, over the causes of the disaster and the extent of the club's liability. It has emerged that Sheffield Wednesday did not have a safety certificate for the stadium in 1989.
RSA, which has more than 1,000 employees in Liverpool, is facing mounting pressure, including demands for a boycott of its products. The company said it provided some information, but insisted it does not release "legally privileged" materials.
Andy Burnham, the Labour MP who was deeply involved in the campaign to get to the truth, last night claimed that RSA should be forced to disclose all its information if new inquests are ordered for the victims. "There is a moral obligation on RSA to provide that information, and they need to answer the question of why a ground with no safety certificate was insured. It is essential that this company is forced to reveal everything that it knows at any inquest."
Another Labour MP, Maria Eagle, said the RSA decision was "ill-advised". She added: "It just raises the suspicion that they have something to hide."
Kenny Derbyshire, who chairs the Hillsborough Justice Campaign, said the group would push for full disclosure. "It makes you wonder how many other documents might be out there that have been withheld," he said.
Sun Alliance was among a group of insurers who insured the organisations involved in Hillsborough, including the police, the club and the local council.
In 1996, insurers paid £1.2m in compensation to 14 police officers who claimed they had suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after witnessing the disaster. RSA was a party to Sheffield Wednesday's decision to contribute £1.5m to compensation payments for the injured and bereaved families.
A spokeswoman for RSA said last night: "We willingly co-operated with the panel, disclosing all relevant materials. It is not our practice to release legally privileged materials. None of the documents would have impacted the outcome of the report or any subsequent investigation."Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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It's nice how they decide for us what is relevant. Still the same linever they were using on the company facebook page.Football without Origi is nothingComment
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Police ‘baton-charged fans’ after taunts over Hillsborough tragedy
Tributes placed on the Shankly Gates next to the Hillsborough Memorial at Liverpool's Anfield Stadium.
Published on Monday 8 October 2012 09:03
SOUTH Yorkshire Police officers baton-charged Hull City fans during the Yorkshire derby at Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday after being taunted with chants about the Hillsborough disaster, supporters have claimed.
Trouble flared on the concourse at half-time when City supporters chanted “murderers” and “Justice for the 96” at officers policing the match, fans said.
This led to clashes with police and a number of arrests and several fans were ejected from the ground.
According to postings on Twitter and unofficial fans’ websites, Hull fans also let off smoke bombs and a food stall was closed after pies were thrown at officers.
One tweet describing the violence said: “Chaos on the concourse, fans and police in genuine fighting, missiles thrown, charging the police back, batons drawn, utter mayhem.”
Some Hull fans criticised the policing, with one writing: “My lad asked me if Sheffield police ‘always act like this’.”
The game, which was won by Hull, attracted the Championship’s highest attendance of the day, 23,441.
A spokeswoman for South Yorkshire Police said: “Police can confirm that a couple of arrests were made and a number of fans were given dispersal notices under Section 27 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act.
“The majority of fans were well behaved with the exception of a few supporters. At the end of the game police had to escort a number of Hull City fans on foot to the railway station and not the tram network.”
The force suffered a terrible blow to its reputation after the shocking scale of the Hillsborough disaster cover-up was revealed last month.
The Hillsborough Independent Panel revealed it had attempted to cover up its failings by changing statements and seeking to blame fans, who were exonerated in the report. A total of 96 Liverpool fans died at the stadium in 1989.Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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Sir Norman Bettison is unlikely to face any disciplinary action as a police officer - even if the IPCC chooses to investigate claims made about his conduct in the light of the Hillsborough disaster.
The watchdog confirmed that, as Sir Norman has agreed to step down as chief constable of West Yorkshire Police on March 31 next year, any potential investigation would have to be concluded beforehand with recommendations made.
This appears extremely unlikely.
The IPCC is currently conducting a review into two referrals concerning his conduct over the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. One relates to his involvement with a group of South Yorkshire Police officers following the tragedy that allegedly put out “misleading information” about the behaviour of fans.
The second relates to his own statement following the publication of the Hillsborough Independent Panel report in September when he said fans’ behaviour “made the job of the police harder than it needed to be”.
The IPCC is currently conducting a review into the entire Hillsborough case and will decide “in the next couple of weeks” whether it will proceed with any investigation.
If criminal conduct was to be found, it would be referred to the CPS – in which case action against former officers would still be possible.
An IPCC spokesman said: “Clearly if the (potential) investigation wasn’t finished by March 31 (Sir Norman) will no longer be a police officer.
“All we can do is publish our findings. We cannot force misconduct if (those involved) are outside the police misconduct system.
“Within the next couple of weeks we will be in a position to say what we are doing but clearly we appreciate it is a complex issue.”
As previously reported, Sir Norman had been part of a team of five senior officers who were tasked with gathering “evidence of the events of the day” in order to brief chief officers at the time about the tragedy.
Their findings became know in the “Wain Report” – named after the Superintendent who led it – which largely blamed “ticketless fans, alcohol and crowd behaviour” for the resulting problems.
Sir Norman has already denied being part of a separate South Yorkshire Police team that allegedly altered officers’ statements to make the force look more favourable.
West Yorkshire Police Authority, which agreed to bring forward Sir Norman’s retirement following the Hillsborough allegations, chose not to comment over his potential avoidance of any disciplinary.
But in a statement to PoliceOracle.com, the authority said: “We have referred any complaint and alleged conduct made to the IPCC and what happens next is a matter for them – we will await their response.”
The IPCC added that some of the named officers in the Hillsborough Independent Panel’s report were dead – and it would have to decide whether it was appropriate to still investigate their conduct. In any case, it would only be able to publish its findings.Oh I say his vision there was lovelyComment
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