Hillsborough Independent Panel findings and release of documents.

[butchersapron]

Significant IPCC update (pdf). They've discovered another 55 amended police statements that were covered up in the revelation of the cover up. That now means 219 amended statements in total so far.

 

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Anne Williams has just died. A true fighter and someone more deserving of a great send off than you know who.

Indonesian reds today:

 

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It never fucking ends:

David Conn@david_conn
New DPP Alison Saunders will decide on any Hillsborough prosecutions. In 1996 she advised against granting Anne Williams a new inquest.

 

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Really worrying stuff today. The police have just effectively been told no charges.

 

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The legal testing of 3.15 - she threw it out. This is never going to end. At least it can help show the strings over 20 years from i do this and i get this in return. Rotten, rotten, rotten.

 

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Missed this on sunday (Jonathan Corke deserves a proletarian medal of honour btw) :

Police boss ‘held back files on 96’

But we can reveal Mervyn Jones, below, who led the external police investigation at the time, failed to hand over files in his possession.

Despite being approached about the documents by the panel (HIP), Mr Jones did not pass on the 16 books known as “policy files”.

But after a criminal probe was launched into the panel’s findings Mr Jones, who is now under investigation, “voluntarily handed them over”.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is currently assessing their significance.

 

[ddraig]

Sheila Coleman Hillsborough Justice Campaign interview

by artist taxi driver
not had a chance to watch it myself yet

 

[laptop]

FFS:

Revealed: Hillsborough police tried to raid £12m victims’ fund
Senior officers attempted to use money from a fund created for victims of tragedy to buy microwaves, gym equipment and even a holiday home

 

[butchersapron]

How surprising to see Norman 'want to buy some platinum' Bettison sniffing around for 2000 quid. The utter contempt they held the victims and their families in is staggering.

(And when i see this and the OTT stuff on the greenwald thread about the noble art of journalism being under threat i think, what world are you living in? One where the newspapers turned their backs on the Hillsborough campaigners for decades.)

 

[teqniq]

What the fuck? Scumbags.

 

[Sprocket.]

They have no shame and there are no depths to which they will sink.
This is tantamount to pissing on the graves of the victims.
We shouldn't be surprised, we know what they are like.
How many of us here on these boards went to school with someone who joined the police?
How many of us remember those folk as complete and utter dickheads?

 

[butchersapron]

Just a reminder:

Chief Constable Graham Moore

Graham Moore (pictured top centre) is a police officer who has been on uPSD’s radar since shortly after the publication of the Hillsborough Independent Panel’s report. It is now the right time to shine a light on some of the misconduct/criminality that he has been a party to over a long number of years.

 

[butchersapron]

FFS:

Revealed: Hillsborough police tried to raid £12m victims’ fund
Senior officers attempted to use money from a fund created for victims of tragedy to buy microwaves, gym equipment and even a holiday home

This, remember, was money that Thatcher insisted anyone on benefits who had a share of, had that same amount they'd received docked from their benefits despite this being waived in all other similar circumstances.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Meanwhile, SYPolFed recommends South Yorks officers "stop working for free outside of their duty hours as part of the ongoing Police Regulations 'Do it Right' campaign".

http://sypfcopperconnection.co.uk/?p=382

No space or time for anything Hillsborough-related, mind:

 

[butchersapron]

The need a platinum connection. Stuff appears and dissappears at will.

 

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Middup on getting disaster fund money.

 

[Fedayn]

And on it goes......

Hillsborough police paid money found among the dead into force’s coffers

 

[sleaterkinney]

Picked the pockets of the dead, indeed.

 

[butchersapron]

Let's just repeat that - they took the money from the victims bodies and paid it into their own SYP fund.

 

[DotCommunist]

it just gets grimmer and grimmer, how the fuck do they sleep?

 

[ddraig]

on their big fluffy righteous pillows bought through overtime and dodgy 'injury' claims

 

[nino_savatte]

The Daily Mail claims that it's unmasked that vile shitcunt, Old Holborn.

This is the face of one of Britain’s most notorious internet trolls.

As his alter ego Old Holborn, Robert Ambridge is responsible for a series of vile and offensive Twitter posts that have brought him death threats.

Thousands were outraged when Ambridge, who appears on his Twitter page with his identity disguised by a plastic pig mask, tweeted about the Hillsborough Stadium disaster. He posted a picture of two overweight women and claimed ‘this is what crushed the 96’.

Ambridge, 51, a recruitment consultant and father of six from Braintree, Essex, also made disgusting comments about the murder of James Bulger which deeply upset his mother. But an unrepentant Ambridge claims people who are offended by his comments have only themselves to blame.

‘It is not my responsibility what other people find upsetting. I didn’t target anyone. I didn’t send an email. They chose to read what I wrote. If they don’t like it, they should turn it off. I don’t care what people find offensive.’

Justifying his tweet about Hillsborough, he added: ‘This is dark humour. People might not like my humour but I think it is funny and it gets a chuckle.’

This week, the self-proclaimed ‘satirical terrorist’ will seek to justify his vitriolic internet posts in an ITV documentary called Fear And Loathing Online.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...posting-sick-jokes-Hillsborough-disaster.html

I think many Scousers have known who Old Hobo was for some time.

 

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Missed this in the week - guess who:

Hillsborough probe police chief secretly received perks worth £70,000

the former police chief constable under investigation over the Hillsborough and Stephen Lawrence scandals, secretly received perks worth over £70,000 a year on top of his £170,000 salary.

And the Independent has this today:

A year after the Hillsborough report – nothing

Grieving families desperate for justice over the Hillsborough stadium disaster are set for an angry showdown this week with the country's most senior prosecutor and the head of the police watchdog.

Tensions are so high that the former bishop of Liverpool, who chaired the Hillsborough Panel, has stepped in to mediate between families and the authorities, in an effort to keep the investigations on track.

 

[butchersapron]

Another day another Bettison series of lies:

Families of Hillsborough disaster victims today called for answers after new evidence emerged over the conduct of former police chief Sir Norman Bettison.

The ECHO can reveal a freedom of information request has uncovered phone records which appear to contradict the version of events Mr Bettison gave to the IPCC’s investigation into his actions after the publication of last year’s Hillsborough Independent Panel (HIP) report.

Mr Bettison, then leading West Yorkshire Police, claimed to be unable to respond to messages from his police authority two days after the report, as he had no mobile phone signal.

But now the ECHO can reveal the former Merseyside Police chief constable had been issued with a police phone, on which dozens of calls and texts were made that day.

 

[laptop]

So not just a lie, but a really stupid lie...

(Betting that he claims his assistant had the phone?)

 

[elbows]

So not just a lie, but a really stupid lie...

(Betting that he claims his assistant had the phone?)

And a lie made under caution.

 

[The Pale King]

No mobile signal? That's sub dog-ate-my-homework stuff. How the fuck did he think that would stand up? Does he think he's invincible?

 

[ViolentPanda]

No mobile signal? That's sub dog-ate-my-homework stuff. How the fuck did he think that would stand up? Does he think he's invincible?

Of course he did, or a calculating liar, thief and cheat of his ilk would never have done any of those things.

And to be fair, the heads of our police services/police forces have historically been "untouchable"/fireproof, even when they've been obviously corrupt, inept, mad or any combination thereof.

 

[The Pale King]

Of course he did, or a calculating liar, thief and cheat of his ilk would never have done any of those things.

And to be fair, the heads of our police services/police forces have historically been "untouchable"/fireproof, even when they've been obviously corrupt, inept, mad or any combination thereof.

That's right. It's he cynicism that gets me - rob the dead and then smear the survivors. I can't get my head around how the hell you could do that, but then I'm not a sociopath. That no-one had the decency to blow the whistle while it was going on says a lot.

 

[ViolentPanda]

That's right. It's he cynicism that gets me - rob the dead and then smear the survivors. I can't get my head around how the hell you could do that, but then I'm not a sociopath. That no-one had the decency to blow the whistle while it was going on says a lot.

One of the things I've said on Urban (probably at tedious length!) is that the culture and the power structures within "closed" institutions like police forces make whistleblowing (or even self-regulation) unlikely, so corrupt coppers can not only be fairly sure that they won't be "grassed" by a fellow copper, but they can use that impunity utterly to their own advantage, knowing that their less-dishonest colleagues will just fall in behind them, "them against us", if anything goes wrong.