Hillsborough 96...

Yesterday the Hillsborough Report finally proved the police cover up and stupidity that caused all those deaths 23 years ago at the Liverpool match. Took 23 years for the police to own up...and Norman Bettison just can't give it up

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hillsborough-police-chief-continues-to-blame-1323347 

Documents published by the Hillsborough independent panel relating to the Sun's April 1989 "The Truth" front page splash, which falsely alleged that drunken Liverpool fans had urinated on police and pickpocketed the dead:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/sep/12/documents-hillsborough-panel-sun-story?intcmp=239

I remember in 1990, someone reading The Sun in a railway station -  a guy flew up to him and ripped the paper out of his hand and stamped on it...seemed fair enough. Liverpool fans could be a scary mob alright, but pickpocketing the dying? Don't think so.

Alexi Sayle did a TV programme a couple of years ago where he filmed people's response to being offered a free copy of The Sun in Liverpool. Excellent. They all refused it; said Hillsborough was why.

So let's honour the dead and respect the living. And think especially of the 43 who would have lived if the cops hadn't decided to call off the rescue at 3.15.