So much has changed since the tragedy that cost 96 lives. But how would police officers respond if asked to take part in a cover-up today?
Political Correspondent Michael Crick considers why the police may have been slow to react as Liverpool fans were crushed to death and why it is not only The Sun which is guilty of mis-reporting.
A police officer who was at Hillsborough on the day when 96 Liverpool fans were fatally injured describes how she was forced to change her statement.
At the heart of the Hillsborough scandal were the attempts by South Yorkshire Police and other institutions to absolve themselves from blame – now available in an online library of 450,000 documents.
As victims’ families call for prosecutions, South Yorkshire police say they are reviewing the Hillsborough report with a view to making a referral to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
Alex Thomson
Alex Thomson talks to a Liverpool football fan caught up in the events at Hillsborough in 1989: he survived the crush that led to the deaths of 96 people, thanks to a man who helped him scale a wall.
As official documents about the Hillsborough disaster, in which 96 people died, are disclosed, Channel 4 News Correspondent Ciaran Jenkins asks five key unanswered questions about the tragedy.
Doctored police statements, lives that could have been saved. Channel 4 News looks at the key findings of the report into the 1989 Hillsborough disaster in which 96 Liverpool fans died.
Forty-one of the 96 people who died in the Hillsborough football stadium tragedy 23 years ago had the “potential to survive”, the panel investigating the deaths said today.
Wednesday’s publication of documents relating to the 1989 Hillsborough tragedy poses a dilemma for David Cameron: should he apologise and risk being seen as trying to hog the limelight?
The Hillsborough Independent Panel has come up with a date, and today announced that it will relase all the documentation relating to the 1989 football disaster in Liverpool on 12 September. Someone who has been following the panel’s work very closely tells me that the revelations which come out of the documents will be “immense” and “very significant”. As to why, my source wouldn’t be drawn.
Leaked government documents reveal Mrs Thatcher was told by an unnamed Merseyside police officer that ‘drunk Liverpool fans’ caused the Hillsborough football disaster.
MPs are set to debate releasing all the government documents relating to the Hillsborough disaster in response to an online petition.
Jon Snow
I was fortunate to attend Liverpool University in the late 1960s. It wasn’t just the experience of living in a Northern industrial city, it was the insight into scouse culture that it provided. Hence the event remembering the 96 victims of the Hillsborough stadium disaster of 20 years ago had a poignancy for me.
Jon Snow
Amazing scenes from Anfield, the home of Liverpool FC today, on the 20th anniversary of the disaster at Hillsborough. A total of 96 people died as the match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest was getting under in Sheffield way back in April 1989.
