What do you think ?
So. After 28 years of waiting, the CPS are finally going to charge the police Commander in charge of policing the Liverpool v Nottingham Forest F.A cup semi-Final in 1989 with manslaughter.
An event that saw 96 Liverpool supporters die. Fans having been forcefully pushed and subsequently crushed in an area of the ground that was already at capacity, because the police didn't want to run the risk of the excess supporters possibly making trouble on the streets away from the ground.
For those of you who don't know. As a result of this event. ALL football grounds were radically altered to all-seater stadia shortly afterwards. A move that has been replicated around the world ever since.
I am curious as to how these things go.
Why the delay ? Were they waiting for senior officers to discreetly retire and emigrate or even DIE before the government and the Crown prosecution Service were actively seeking to hold someone accountable ?
Or are they doing it now because it's NOW politically expedient to do so ?
ALL those folk who gave statements. Thousands of them ! All willfully ignored !
And WORSE. The deliberate forging of accounts of what happened by investigating officers ! This is one of the charges levelled at the man in charge at the time.
Two generations on, are those who have screamed and shouted so long and so hard (Having had to attend their children's funerals ! yet still obeyed the law ! Paid their taxes ! Tried to get on with their lives !)finally going to see some sort of justice ?
An event that saw 96 Liverpool supporters die. Fans having been forcefully pushed and subsequently crushed in an area of the ground that was already at capacity, because the police didn't want to run the risk of the excess supporters possibly making trouble on the streets away from the ground.
For those of you who don't know. As a result of this event. ALL football grounds were radically altered to all-seater stadia shortly afterwards. A move that has been replicated around the world ever since.
I am curious as to how these things go.
Why the delay ? Were they waiting for senior officers to discreetly retire and emigrate or even DIE before the government and the Crown prosecution Service were actively seeking to hold someone accountable ?
Or are they doing it now because it's NOW politically expedient to do so ?
ALL those folk who gave statements. Thousands of them ! All willfully ignored !
And WORSE. The deliberate forging of accounts of what happened by investigating officers ! This is one of the charges levelled at the man in charge at the time.
Two generations on, are those who have screamed and shouted so long and so hard (Having had to attend their children's funerals ! yet still obeyed the law ! Paid their taxes ! Tried to get on with their lives !)finally going to see some sort of justice ?
56-60, M
