Hillsborough

[Red_Polo]

Always on our minds. YNWA

[Exiled_red]

R.I.P. 96

Thoughts with their families and friends as well as the other fans injured or affected by what happened that day.

YNWA

[Red_Polo]

Watching the recent documentaries about Stephen Lawrence, I was struck by how there are so many similarities with Hillsborough in terms of institutional prejudice, corruption, cover up by police, political expedience. Just as with Orgreave.

[Liverpool]

Watching the recent documentaries about Stephen Lawrence, I was struck by how there are so many similarities with Hillsborough in terms of institutional prejudice, corruption, cover up by police, political expedience. Just as with Orgreave.

exactly what I thought, and you just wonder how much other stuff gone on
that wasn't given the exposure

[Shaggy]

[ame]https://twitter.com/JudithMoritz/status/1012630134678081536[/ame]

[Yozza]

[MrMichael]

Not just him either. Hopefully they charge Bettison too...

Former Sheffield Wednesday club secretary Graham Mackrell is charged with health and safety, and safety at sports grounds offences.

The trial of Mr Duckenfield and Mr Mackrell is currently listed to start on 10 September.

Former solicitor Peter Metcalf and former police officers Donald Denton and Alan Foster are scheduled to go on trial in January 2019 charged with perverting the course of justice.

A hearing to determine whether former Chief Constable Sir Norman Bettison will be tried has been adjourned until August.

[Angryred]

Not just him either. Hopefully they charge Bettison too...

Bettison should have that knighthood removed too as he knowingly lied to the authorities & cheated the public while having the gall to accept the award from royalty.

[Vermilion]

Bettison not going to be tried on charges of misconduct in public office. meh.

Charges dropped against Hillsborough disaster police chief Sir Norman Bettison .


Sir Norman Bettison will not be prosecuted for charges of misconduct in a public office following the Hillsborough disaster after the Crown Prosecution Service said the case would be discontinued at Preston Crown Court.

The 62-year-old was charged with four counts of misconduct in a public office, relating to alleged lies he told about his role in the aftermath of the tragedy in which 96 Liverpool fans died.

Submissions on an application to stay the proceedings against the former Merseyside and West Yorkshire chief constable were heard by judge Sir Peter Openshaw at Preston Crown Court as around a dozen relatives of some of the 96 victims of the disaster sat in the public gallery.

Bettison, who was a chief inspector at the time of the FA Cup semi-final on April 15, 1989, was accused of untruthfully describing his role in the South Yorkshire Police response as "peripheral".

He was alleged to have made the comment to then chief inspector of constabulary Sir David O'Dowd, in 1998, when he applied for the job of chief constable in Merseyside.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/21/charges-dropped-against-hillsborough-disaster-police-chief-sir/

[Shaggy]

**** off

[Red_Polo]

Obviously disappointing but will go for review. Don't know enough about the basis of the case against him, can it really have been so dependent on eyewitness accounts?

[Big-Red-Ed]

Predictable outcome. The establishment protects it's own as usual. C*nts.

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[Shaggy]

[ame]https://twitter.com/david_conn/status/1031847757349351424[/ame]

[Chris]

That is ****ing sickening but not in the slightest bit surprising, I hate this country sometimes.

[Leyton388]

Its a Corrupt nonce protecting establishment so this isn't surprising.