Hillsborough Independent Panel findings and release of documents.

[Sprocket.]

Strangely enough the ex-Lord Justice of Appeal, the Rt Hon Sir Murray Stuart-Smith, doesn't include his particular bigoted contribution to the injustices of Hillsborough in his Debretts entry....but it is nice to know that he likes 'playing cello, shooting, building, playing bridge'.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

I wouldn't think it out of character if it included:
Torching orphanages.
Kicking homeless people.

 

[butchersapron]

Oh great, the IPCC

Police watchdog to investigate Hillsborough inquest spin claims

The Independent Police Complaints Commission has launched an investigation into allegations that South Yorkshire police tried to influence daily media coverage of the Hillsborough inquests and spin what the force considered to be evidence favourable to it.

Hayley Court, a communications specialist hired by South Yorkshire police in 2014 specifically to work on the inquests, told the Guardian last week that she believed she had been given “unethical” instructions to spin coverage for the force.

Court said that on her first day she was told by a superior officer: “Your job is to round up the media at the end of the day and tell them: ‘This is the line’.”

Court said the line considered favourable by the force included evidence that spread blame away from its own failings, including allegations of misbehaviour against Liverpool supporters

...
In August 2014 Court complained internally, but she said that in response, rather than discuss or revise the approach to the inquests, her superior officer made complaints about her and she fell ill with depression and was signed off work.

 

[Buckaroo]

Oh great, the IPCC

Police watchdog to investigate Hillsborough inquest spin claims

The Independent Police Complaints Commission has launched an investigation into allegations that South Yorkshire police tried to influence daily media coverage of the Hillsborough inquests and spin what the force considered to be evidence favourable to it.

Hayley Court, a communications specialist hired by South Yorkshire police in 2014 specifically to work on the inquests, told the Guardian last week that she believed she had been given “unethical” instructions to spin coverage for the force.

Court said that on her first day she was told by a superior officer: “Your job is to round up the media at the end of the day and tell them: ‘This is the line’.”

Court said the line considered favourable by the force included evidence that spread blame away from its own failings, including allegations of misbehaviour against Liverpool supporters

...
In August 2014 Court complained internally, but she said that in response, rather than discuss or revise the approach to the inquests, her superior officer made complaints about her and she fell ill with depression and was signed off work.

Lie down with dogs etc

 

[Sprocket.]

Dismissal proceedings start for South Yorkshire Police chief after Hillsborough - BBC News

Long overdue in my opinion.

 

[spartacus mills]

The BBC 'doorstepped' Duckenfield at San Francisco airport today. The fucker looked like he hadn't a care in the world.
Wasn't he 'on holiday' in Portugal on the day the inquest verdict?

 

[DaveCinzano]

South Yorkshire Police spend £2.1m on chief's Hillsborough costs - BBC News

 

[teqniq]

So that's essentially £2.1m of public money. Great.

 

[butchersapron]

Meant to post this earlier in the week:

Hillsborough - The Truth: the cowardly threat made against Prof Phil Scraton and his family

I remembered a more sinister call to my ex-directory number. This was a quite different, well-spoken male voice, which calmly and accurately listed the projects I had researched, ending with the comment “apologist for football hooligans”. Without pausing he named my children, their schools and what time they left home in the morning. Before putting down the phone he told me none of us were safe.

Note where he has chosen to place this in the book and who/what he is discussing immediately before.

 

[teqniq]

Freemason link to Hillsborough cover-up investigated by police watchdog

 

[butchersapron]

South Yorkshire Police chief David Crompton in legal bid over resignation

The Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police will take legal action over the decision to ask him to resign.

David Crompton was suspended by Dr Alan Billings, the region's Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), after the Hillsborough inquest verdicts in April.
He said Mr Crompton had led a force that put "its own reputation first before considering victims".

Mr Crompton said the PCC's resignation call was "fundamentally wrong" and he would take legal action. He said: "I will shortly be commencing judicial review proceedings in the High Court in order to challenge him."

After the inquests, Mr Crompton appeared to justify the questioning of the fans' conduct.

It was reported Mr Crompton said "he would not consider this as he had nothing to resign for".

 

[Teaboy]

So Bettison is writing a book about how ultimately he was the real victim in all this. Don't worry though, all proceeds are going to charity. Yeah, right.

 

[chandlerp]

Is the charity for blind police officers?

 

[ViolentPanda]

Is the charity for blind police officers?

For coppers with Repetitive Strain Injury.
All that clubbing people and chucking them down stairs wreaks havoc on your joints, you know!

 

[William of Walworth]

Not sure how relevant this really is to this thread, but some interesting Guardian coverage here on ideas for a safe standing area at Anfield. To be fair to LSU/Spirit of Shankly, they seem to want to make sure that Hillsborough campaign groups are properly (?) consulted and that they have their wishes/views respected. Or am I missing anything?

 

[butchersapron]

‘Police lawyers blaming fans delayed Hillsborough inquests by a year’

The Hillsborough inquests took twice as long as they should have because of the way barristers representing match commander David Duckenfield and South Yorkshire Police’s legal team behaved, lawyers for the victims’ families have suggested.

Speaking at a public lecture at the University of Sheffield, Mark George QC said South Yorkshire Police’s legal representatives had ‘piggybacked on aggressive questioning’ on behalf of the match commanders including Mr Duckenfield that had relied on repeating discredited claims that the fans had responsibility for the disaster occurring.

I do hope Duty of Candour is changed for something better - even though it's already an established thing.

 

[butchersapron]

Football chief under fire for ‘smear’ on Hillsborough supporters

In his statement, Richards said that they also attended to a woman who died and that some Liverpool supporters made an obscene remark about her. “There were some lads behind the perimeter fence who shouted to us to throw her to them,” his statement said. “They made comments like: ‘Throw her in here, we’ll fucking fix her up.’ There were 10 or 12 of them. I was shocked by this and stood there.”

Analysis of his statement has now revealed discrepancies in the detail with known facts about the disaster. Rigby himself did not say he had attended to any women on the pitch, but Richards gave a detailed description – that the woman was aged between 27 and 30, wearing a short-sleeved blouse and a multicoloured skirt, and that Rigby had told him she was dead.

Seven female victims were among the 96 people who died at Hillsborough and none was wearing a skirt. All were wearing jeans or trousers.

Note, even the referee is claiming that the police changed his written statement. Not SYP but the WM brought in to clear it all up.

 

[DaveCinzano]

For coppers with Repetitive Strain Injury.
All that clubbing people and chucking them down stairs wreaks havoc on your joints, you know!

That and rewriting the same fabricated statement over and over and over again

 

[butchersapron]

So that's 10-40 tonight. ITV.

 

[brogdale]

Football chief under fire for ‘smear’ on Hillsborough supporters





Note, even the referee is claiming that the police changed his written statement. Not SYP but the WM brought in to clear it all up.

Oh yeah, pre "post-truth"/"fake" news.

 

[butchersapron]

It never ends. You think you've reached the bottom, but you never have.

 

[Nivag]

One of my friends was on last nights programme and having heard his account first hand, the relief felt from him that some of the lies are now coming out was amazing.
Still more to come from this too.

 

[Voley]

Only watched half of this latest programme so far as it was getting to me a bit. I don't know why I'm still surprised by all this stuff tbh. You'd think you'd become inured to it at some point. God it's vile.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Only watched half of this latest programme so far as it was getting to me a bit. I don't know why I'm still surprised by all this stuff tbh. You'd think you'd become inured to it at some point. God it's vile.

It's just so fucking much though, corruption from top to bottom. And they're still at it, holding back on Orgreave papers, refusing to release all the Guildford Four papers etc.

FFS where there's blates bullshit, get it out on the open, deal with it and every one (who's still alive) can move on.

 

[tommers]

Details of 23 passed to CPS

Hillsborough suspect files passed to Crown Prosecution Service - BBC News

 

[butchersapron]

Friday night buried release:

No police officers can be disciplined over Hillsborough complaints, says IPCC

None of the former police officers under investigation for more than 170 allegations of misconduct relating to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster will face disciplinary proceedings because all have retired, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has said.

So short of criminal charges - and we've seen the tiny figures passed to the CPS - they're all off the hook.

The dragging it out, the extended pain and anguish of the families, these are the victories of these officers.

 

[dessiato]

The police share so much shame over their behaviour across so many of their actions. I, therefore, think they'll be so busy burying their heads and hiding from the truth that they will never admit to anything.

 

[Athos]

The dragging it out, the extended pain and anguish of the families , these are the victories of these officers.

Yes, it seems doubly cruel that the very thing that compounded the families' pain - the slow playing - is what should have enabled so many to escape justice altogether.

 

[friedaweed]

Friday night buried release:

No police officers can be disciplined over Hillsborough complaints, says IPCC



So short of criminal charges - and we've seen the tiny figures passed to the CPS, they're all off the hook.

The dragging it out, the extended pain and anguish of the families, these are the victories of these officers.

Protected to the end

 

[friedaweed]

Yes, it seems doubly cruel that the very thing that compounded the families' pain - the slow playing - is what should have enabled so many to escape justice altogether.

Soz mate. Quoted you by mistake then.

 

[Nivag]

They should be charged with perverting the course of justice, which shouldn't matter if they have retired or not. Absolute scum.