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15th April 1989 Justice for the 96

Fedayn

Fedayn

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Hillsborough Justice Campaign

The aftermath

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RIP

John Alfred Anderson (62)
Colin Mark Ashcroft (19)
James Gary Aspinall (18)
Kester Roger Marcus Ball (16)
Gerard Bernard Patrick Baron (67)
Simon Bell (17)
Barry Sidney Bennett (26)
David John Benson (22)
David William Birtle (22)
Tony Bland (22)
Paul David Brady (21)
Andrew Mark Brookes (26)
Carl Brown (18)
David Steven Brown (25)
Henry Thomas Burke (47)
Peter Andrew Burkett (24)
Paul William Carlile (19)
Raymond Thomas Chapman (50)
Gary Christopher Church (19)
Joseph Clark (29)
Paul Clark (18)
Gary Collins (22)
Stephen Paul Copoc (20)
Tracey Elizabeth Cox (23)
James Philip Delaney (19)
Christopher Barry Devonside (18)
Christopher Edwards (29)
Vincent Michael Fitzsimmons (34)
Thomas Steven Fox (21)
Jon-Paul Gilhooley (10)
Barry Glover (27)
Ian Thomas Glover (20)
Derrick George Godwin (24)
Roy Harry Hamilton (34)
Philip Hammond (14)
Eric Hankin (33)
Gary Harrison (27)
Stephen Francis Harrison (31)
Peter Andrew Harrison (15)
David Hawley (39)
James Robert Hennessy (29)
Paul Anthony Hewitson (26)
Carl Darren Hewitt (17)
Nicholas Michael Hewitt (16)
Sarah Louise Hicks (19)
Victoria Jane Hicks (15)
Gordon Rodney Horn (20)
Arthur Horrocks (41)
Thomas Howard (39)
Thomas Anthony Howard (14)
Eric George Hughes (42)
Alan Johnston (29)
Christine Anne Jones (27)
Gary Philip Jones (18)
Richard Jones (25)
Nicholas Peter Joynes (27)
Anthony Peter Kelly (29)
Michael David Kelly (38)
Carl David Lewis (18)
David William Mather (19)
Brian Christopher Mathews (38)
Francis Joseph McAllister (27)
John McBrien (18)
Marion Hazel McCabe (21)
Joseph Daniel McCarthy (21)
Peter McDonnell (21)
Alan McGlone (28)
Keith McGrath (17)
Paul Brian Murray (14)
Lee Nicol (14)
Stephen Francis O'Neill (17)
Jonathon Owens (18)
William Roy Pemberton (23)
Carl William Rimmer (21)
David George Rimmer (38)
Graham John Roberts (24)
Steven Joseph Robinson (17)
Henry Charles Rogers (17)
Colin Andrew Hugh William Sefton (23)
Inger Shah (38)
Paula Ann Smith (26)
Adam Edward Spearritt (14)
Philip John Steele (15)
David Leonard Thomas (23)
Patrik John Thompson (35)
Peter Reuben Thompson (30)
Stuart Paul William Thompson (17)
Peter Francis Tootle (21)
Christopher James Traynor (26)
Martin Kevin Traynor (16)
Kevin Tyrrell (15)
Colin Wafer (19)
Ian David Whelan (19)
Martin Kenneth Wild (29)
Kevin Daniel Williams (15)
Graham John Wright (17)
 
Victims of lessons unlearned from Burnden Park, from Ibrox, from Bradford. Victims of a mentality that saw normal people who love football as turnstile fodder who'd pay to watch their team in intolerably unsafe conditions. Victims of a police culture which saw football fans as a problem to be contained rather than human beings who deserved to be kept safe at the match. They just wanted to support their team with their families and their mates and trusted the host club and the authorities to know what they were doing.

The police, clubs and football authorities were warned. 25 people died at Ibrox in 1902 when terracing collapsed, 33 crushed to death at Burnden Park in 1946, 66 crushed on the stairway at Ibrox in 1971, 56 burned alive at Valley Parade in 1985. Countless other smaller incidents and near misses, including a similar incident at the same end of Hillsborough in 1981 when the only reason there weren't fatalities was that fans could escape onto the pitch as the crush developed. Yet still football clubs opened decrepit and unsafe grounds to fans week by week, local authorities allowed safety certificates to go unrenewed (Hillsborough's was ten years out of date in1989), the FA awarded big fixtures to places which were little more than death traps and the police treated fans like animals, part of Thatcher's 'enemy within' rather than human beings to be respected.

Chief Superintendent Duckenfield retired on a full police pension, never to be called to account for his criminally negligent handling of the match. Following Duckenfield's retirement on medical grounds, Superintendent Bernard Murray avoided charges as it was thought unfair to call him to account if Duckenfield had avoided it.The collective exercise in arse covering by the South Yorkshire Police started not long after 3:15pm, as fans were still lay dying on the pitch, when Duckenfield told the FA's Graham Kelly that Liverpool fans had forced the gates open to enter the ground - gates he had ordered to be opened himself just half an hour earlier. The smears, which went on to include questioning grieving relatives about their dead's drinking habits and off the record briefings to the press about the alleged behaviour of Liverpool fans before and during the tragedy - rebutted by every independent witness to the events - began even as the bodies were still piled up on the terraces. By contrast, the Major Incident Plan was never put into action and hospital staff were left to come in as they heard about what had happened on the news rather than being called in immediately.

The Taylor inquiry into the disaster named the primary cause of the tragedy as the failure of police control, yet even to this day people will still swear blind that the fans must have been responsible for their own deaths. Even in the face of practically all the available evidence of police lies, incompetence and the co-ordination of statements to tone down the chaos amongst those supposed to be keeping people safe and talk up the alleged out of control mob which seemingly only the South Yorkshire Police saw, the dead, injured and traumatised are slandered and libeled as hooligans who caused their own demise.

May they all rest in peace and may their memories forever shame those who failed them so dismally.

Justice for the 96. Don't buy the Sun.
 
Nice one, Fedayn.

Still fills me with anger and sadness, all this, even 20 years on. I'll be watching the memorial service and having a quiet moment or two today.
 
R.I.P. to all .... :(

As I posted on the other Hillsborough thrread, I'll be watching Jimmy McGovern's 'Hillsborough' on ITV3 this evening, 9 pm, it's been recommended by many here, Fedayn included.
 
William of Walworth said:
As I posted on the other Hillsborough thrread, I'll be watching Jimmy McGovern's 'Hillsborough' on ITV3 this evening, 9 pm, it's been recommended by many here, Fedayn included.
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It's excellent. A difficult, chilling watch undoubtedly but necessarily so. I don't think I'll be able to watch it again, tbh.
 
rikwakefield said:
A real tragedy.

I hope what happened that day is brought into the public domain, once and for all.
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The FA,The Media and the Police all need to shoulder the blame. The Taylor report bought in all seater stadiums it was convenient to blame most of it on terracing. But the contempt football fans were treated with that day by the police was nothing that unusual. What was unusual is what happened as a result. Even 20 years later the story still seems shocking.
 
Maggot said:
What does Justice for the 96 actually mean?

How can it be achieved?
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Very simple, that someone is held to account for thosd killed and injured, for the lies, the smears, the mistakes and deliberate cover ups that happened on that day and in the aftermath.
 
There was never a proper inquiry into the disaster and those responsible retired blameless with their full pensions. No responsibility for what happened that day has been taken by anyone.
 
And thanks also to the Everton fans who did a banner at last weeks Villa game and have a few more lined up for the game at the weekend, hopefully it will rub off on some of the idiots.
 
Maggot said:
What does Justice for the 96 actually mean?

How can it be achieved?
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Prosecution of police officers, the public recogniton that they destroyed evidence and hindered the truth coming out and generally acted like arseholes.

Compensation for those who've had to give up so much of their time and money in the fight to establish the truth.

An new enquiry based on the acceptance of the first point that establishes true narrative of what happened and why.

Proper funding for medical and psychological counselling - as well as legal support for the claims against the negligence of soliciters who (mis)represented the victims and their familes.

kelvin mackenzie hanging from a lampost and the sun banished from the land.

For starters.
 
Been in a few hairy situations over the years (in the bad old days) don't really like thinking about what those fans went through on that tragic day.

R.I.P

Fuck The Sun.
 
I've had a truelly shocking copule of days but things like this always put things into perspective.


YNWA
 
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