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Hillsborough Independent Panel findings and release of documents.

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Fozzie Bear said:
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Adding them numbers up that suggest single officers amended multiple statements. Bear in mind this is not the criminal investigation so they cannot be compelled to so anything yet. And they are all retired.

10 minutes of police footage has now disappeared the pre-inquest was told a while ago. Can be followed here.
 
I will hazard a guess that some/all of the retired officers will shift into the "unift" category before they are compelled to give testimony. Or will die of course.
 
QC for Duckenfield, Greenwood and Marshall (all nicely retired now of course) tried to argue today that anyone sympathetic to LFC should be exluded from the jury.
 
butchersapron said:
Someone put a thought into my head earlier - given the police infiltration etc of the Lawrence, Alder and other campaigns, when are we going to hear about the first similar hillsborough related activity?
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Calls for Met to "come clean" about spying on Hillsborough campaigners

The Metropolitan Police are today under pressure to come clean on whether Special Branch spied on Hillsborough families.

An article in the latest issue of Private Eye reported the Met refused to "confirm or deny" whether Hillsborough justice campaigners were put under surveillance.

Sheila Coleman from the Hillsborough Justice Campaign (HJC) said: "We were promised transparency and if the Government is trying to make amends for the cover up it needs to wipe the slate clean."

She said campaigners had expressed suspicions in the past that they were under surveillance.

She said: "If individuals were under investigation at any level it needs to be in the public domain."

Sheila added: "If they can't deny it, it will be assumed that they were investigating people involved in the campaign and that shows how those most affected by Hillsborough were effectively criminalised."
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Not read the PE story yet.
 
Paul Salt
@paulsaltysalt
Speaking to Sheila Coleman from @HJC_Official on @bbcmerseyside at 430 on Private Eye claim the Met spied on Hillsborough victims families
 
Quick pic of the Private Eye story:

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Note that supposed Augean stable cleaner Mick Creedon's Operation Herne investigation into the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), NPOIU and other undercover police units explicitly endorses the ‘neither confirm nor deny’ (NCND) policy employed here (eg see p3 of the initial Op Herne report).
 
I'm not a big fan of the Eye's journalism these days but there's more than a a hint of nail on head with that one. I hope they stick with it.
 
The Daily Star Sunday journalist Jonathan Corke is proper going for it at the moment.

Jonathan Corke ‏@JonathanCorke Have pointed out to @metpoliceuk that if it holds information on #Hillsborough this should have been handed to independent panel..

10:54 AM - 11 Jan 14
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Jonathan Corke ‏@JonathanCorke 16m
The @metpoliceuk seems to have a problem providing a straight yes or no #Hillsborough

10:55 AM - 11 Jan 14
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Jonathan Corke ‏@JonathanCorke
The unit may be charged with "national security" but how does that relate to #Hillsborough families seeking answers?

11:01 AM - 11 Jan 14
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Jonathan Corke ‏@JonathanCorke 7m
It's abundantly clear that both SYP and WMP failed to hand over all #Hillsborough material held to the independent panel

11:06 AM - 11 Jan 14
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Jonathan Corke ‏@JonathanCorke
So why wouldn't those seeking to provide the "definitive account" not ask all forces for any #Hillsborough material they may hold?

11:07 AM - 11 Jan 14
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The actor, who was training in a Los Angeles gym with Liverpool boxer Paul Smith ahead of Smith’s fight at the ECHO Arena on March 15, held up a red T-shirt emblazoned with ‘HILLSBOROUGH 96. JUSTICE’ on it [in red].
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Piece tonight on Newsnight about west mids police - the force who investigated the SYP role in hillsborough and who decided what evidence went to the CPS and the coroners court and who have thus far escaped relatively unscathed - and their treatment of witnesses. BBC newsnight journo says: "Shocking accounts from Hillsborough survivors @BBCNewsnight tonight of "interrogations" by WMids police.Vulnerable,traumatised yet rejected."

(ta to @TheWrongKennedy+@PMarshallNews)
 
And there's more (ties in with butchers post above)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25947994

Survivors of Hillsborough have said they were intimidated and threatened by police from the independent force asked to investigate the football disaster.
BBC Newsnight has heard that witness criticisms of police who had been at the scene were not properly recorded.
This is the first time fans have come forward to question how West Midlands police took their statements.
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This was in the Mirror yesterday:

Hillsborough tragedy survivors were branded ''criminals and left-wing agitators'' by police for pointing out their failings

Nick Braley, 53, says his statement doesn’t reflect the truth either. Notes referring to his case say, “came across as totally anti-police”. And then there’s his Nelson Mandela T-shirt – “was wearing a ‘left-wing’ type T-shirt, actual motif not known”.
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Johnathon Corke notes elsewhere:

"(Police asked) Was I a student agitator? Was I a member of the Socialist Workers Party?"
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