Hillsborough

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19569749


Kelvin MacKenzie, former editor of the Sun: 

"Today I offer my profuse apologies to the people of Liverpool for that headline. I too was totally misled. Twenty-three ago I was handed a piece of copy from a reputable news agency in Sheffield, in which a senior police officer and a senior local MP were making serious allegations against fans in the stadium. I had absolutely no reason to believe that these authority figures would lie and deceive over such a disaster. As the prime minister has made clear, these allegations were wholly untrue and were part of a concerted plot by police officers to discredit the supporters thereby shifting the blame for the tragedy from themselves. It has taken more than two decades, 400,000 documents and a two-year inquiry to discover to my horror that it would have been far more accurate had I written the headline The Lies rather than The Truth. I published in good faith and I am sorry that it was so wrong."



Amazing how newspapers can rally a campaign so utterly wrong and damaging.

I feel so much for the Hillsborough Families Support Group, and all of the family and friends of those who died. 

It's been 23 very very long years.    

To the 96 football fans:

YNWA