A momentous week....

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.