It’s been a momentous week where a lot of
us have learned things a lot of new things:
We now know that the police coordinated a
corrupt attempt to pervert the course of justice. They and their Tory friend, Irvine Patnick, lied to the
press and media about the causes of the disaster.
On top of lying about the causes of the
disaster, we now know that the Police and their unofficial mouthpiece Patnick, were
also the source of defamatory lies about the conduct of fans e.g. Pick pocketing dead bodies.
You’ve seen him on Youtube, here he is in
press too.
http://hillsborough.independent.gov.uk/repository/docs/PRE000000560001.pdf
We know that the very Tory MP who fed some
of these vile lies to the press, was then knighted in 1994 by then Prime
Minister John Major. He remains a
Tory lord to this day.
We know Mrs Thatcher refused the
resignation of Peter Wright, the Head of SYP and now exposed as the most likely
source of instigating the cover up.
We don’t know 100% because the name is redacted from the statement of
the brave copper who exposed this 15 years ago. So we know that the cover up is still going on, they have withheld the name in the disclosures, though Wright is odds on.
We know that 15 years ago, this brave
copper resigned in disgust after finding out his own evidence had been altered
without his permission and his signature forged on a cut down version that he
refused to sign at the time.
We know that Bernad Ingham continued to
pedal his warped version of the truth well after Hillsborough. He is yet to issue an apology for
his outburst on question time.
We know that the coroner imposed a 15
minute rule meaning that no evidence after that time was admissible in
determining a cause of death. We
also know that various courts have supported this, despite clear evidence this
was false.
We know that 41 victims could have been
saved had they had proper medical attention.
We know that 40 of 42 ambulances were
turned away from Hillsborough.
Ironically that would be very nearly one per possible survivor.
We know that the lies fed to press were not
just about a ticketless mob, they also briefed that fans were attacking and urinating
on the police as they gave medical aid, that fans pick pocketed dead fans and
(a new one) sexually assaulted one dead fan.
We know that after 23 years to consider
their role in this cover up, both Irvine Patnick and Mckenzie only apologized this
week for their vile and false allegations. They didn’t do so after the Taylor report.
We know that Bernard Ingham and Mckenzie continued
to peddle the “it was the fans” lie years after the Taylor report. Ingham is still to apologise.
We know that the police altered 116
statements by removing comments that did not meet their version of events.
But you know what, we knew most of that
anyway….90% of that was in the public domain and the Police / IPCC /
Politicians all chose to do nothing about the cover up. They didn’t give a shit.
And the public? To be brutally honest, most of the public chose to not really
give a shit…Why don’t these scoucers move on, they are serial victims, why do
they want another minutes silence….yep, a lot of people sort to make cheap
jibes and ignore the fact that there was a huge injustice.
There are a few exceptions, people who
refused to be silenced or who kept the issues in the public domain, including MPs
Steve Rotherham and Andy Burnham.
So take your hats off to the brave families
who carried on despite everything, despite a seemingly hopeless fight and
despite the lack of hope.
They will not ever move on, not until they get
justice. Too right.
As one of mates just said to me “Keep up
the rage over Hillsborough”. I intend to. Damn right I am angry, as I now know that whilst a line of
policeman stood two deep across the centre circle, whilst other SYP police were
refusing ambulances entry to the stadium, all that time 41 of our fallen were
dying. Some of the 41 who died, could
possibly hear those sirens for themselves.
I heard them, I heard them loud and clear,
they were constant, the sound of sirens as frustrated ambulance with paramedics
sitting idle whilst young kids died all around. me I also know what happened on the terrace. How the Police were slow to react and
worse, initially pushed fans back over the fence as they tried to escape. Keeping the gate closed on the cage
designed to contain the “animals’.
One other thing we knew all along, is about
the conduct of the most senior policeman on duty that day. We know that at 3.50pm, less than 1
hour after he had personally given the order to open Gate C, whilst Kevin
Williams lay not yet dead, needing just a simple tube to save his life, 40
ambulances stood idle a matter of yards away, we know that was the time David
Duckenfield told the first lie to Graham Kelly, that the fans has broken down a
gate.
The cover up started within an hour of the
gate opening, and before the last of the 96 has even died. Shame on everyone of them
involved.
