I don't know who passed out but I
remember a gable I knew I was dyin I'd
the recurring nightmare for 12 years
every night oh what the 96th in their
graves who is accountable for 96 of
lovely gold I was born into Hills bruh
I've never known life without Hills bruh
I'm only 25 now this is all I've ever
known Hillsboro is Britain's worst ever
Sports disaster both in terms of the
numbers killed and injured and the long
and winding aftermath 30 years of
inquiries and investigations
police are trying desperately hard to
hold the back and at the moment it is
simple
mayhem I remember hearing about
Hillsborough when it happened seeing it
on the TV news I was growing up in
Manchester at the time it was only
really when I started working for the
BBC as a north of England correspondent
that I began to look in close detail at
it that was ten years ago also and I've
spent 10 years following every twist and
turn of it and they've been so many
twists and turns
to fully understand Hillsborough you
have to look at what happened in 1989
back then Hillsborough was one of the
most prestigious grounds in England
chosen to host one of the most important
football fixtures in the calendar the FA
Cup semi-final and for the second year
in a row Liverpool were drawn against
Nottingham Forest the nottingham fans
went north and the scousers went east
across the Pennine and they converged
here on the west side of the ground at
Leppings Lane it was a sunny day in
Liverpool had everything to play for the
fans arrived full of hope
but the problem soon began here outside
the ground with minutes to go before
kickoff there were still thousands of
people here waiting to get in it was at
this moment that a critical decision was
made by David duckenfield he ordered a
large exit gate to be opened and more
than 2,000 fans poured into the ground
your mana gates I need just let us walk
it didn't even say hit offals didn't you
come through a gate you go off at the
end of the game but the area they headed
to down the main tunnel was already full
back there like many football grounds
Hillsborough had a terrace section where
supporters would stand to watch the game
they were fenced in behind metal
railings which were installed to stop
pitch invasions
but effectively it meant the fans were
penned into cages
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no it's irons you want to get old
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today in Liverpool it feels as though
everyone has some connection to the
disaster it was a love I'll used to go
to school with here was actually on one
of the front pages with his arm across
horrible situation I was at university I
gel and we had people that have been at
the ground but came home obviously there
are a lot of people in
I was only young at the time and I did
have to UM cause there as well
it stopped them going to fall completely
send a child to a football match with
his dad
every time singing ever walk along you
always have a tear in your eye you think
back to them poor people
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the bereaved families and survivors have
campaigned for justice for three decades
recently a new group has been set up to
help those who were in the crush by an
Damien and Ian were all there and their
memories of what it was like have
haunted them for thirty years this is
the first time they've described their
experiences to each other a dear friend
who was just and still just behind me
she was shouting that she was dying and
needed to help her couldn't do anything
to help I was trying to breathe myself
back to town to her breath it was
stopped and I'm with Rose because I just
call them it's been a long haul the
student has at the time but my body just
didn't do anything and the guilt of not
helping is just unreal suicide attempts
self-harm I'm tattooed because that was
the more positive alternative to cut me
so I've lost family members because of
it I've lost a daughter because of it
because when the subject ah feels but
comes up in them easier it be geared to
take things you know it's a very
difficult place for us to integrate into
our lives we'll never get all the what
happens but we can we can learn to live
with it I know that you know if people
describe you or how you'll be remembered
in life till say ah you know mr. Darcy
was this and he mister and I know that
you know this was a violent movie
sometime the people say yes laughter
likely
it's marked all our life just name the
survivors have lived with the trauma of
the crush ever since but 96 people
didn't get out they were young and old a
10 year old boy 37 teenagers parents two
sisters a father and son a mother a
pensioner of 67 their families hold
their memories tight the love undimmed
through the generations
I lost my uncle before I even got the
chance to meet him I now have a gap that
I'll never be able to fill some of the
sister of Brian Matthews who was killed
at Hillsborough and I've spent over half
my life time trying to defend his good
name I'm only 25 now this is all I've
ever knew
for 30 years I don't think of experience
today where Hill's breath has never been
mentioned I've never actually been to
the hills were Stadium myself thought I
could draw you out with a plan of the
grounds I could show you the entry
routes I could detail or pétain style
she's at the moment studying to be a
barrister it's not a career that she's
chosen of her own free will it's the
career that she's chosen because of the
injustice that was suffered people often
ask me why is hills of us still going on
and in fairness if you told the families
and survivors back in 1989 that their
case would still be going through the
courts today they'd have been horrified
so why is it taken so long one I suppose
one of the answers is that whilst
they've been inquiries and
investigations over the years some of
them didn't hit the mark and that's
because they weren't looking then at the
full range of evidence which is
available now for years it always felt
to the families and the survivors that
it was them against the establishment
but then there was this moment I
remember being at Anfield for the 20th
anniversary memorial service it was a
really seminal moment because that's
when this single heckle started from the
Kop towards Andy Burnham there was
culture secretary at the time will never
be forgotten
and he asked us to think at this time
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and that one cry for justice that wave
it it started has carried on right
through to today that I think is what
sent the signal to Westminster but the
importance of releasing all of the
documents around Hillsborough that led
the way to the creation of the
Hillsborough independent panel its
report in 2012 was really important it
led the way towards new inquests with
the weight of the new evidence in this
room it is right for me today as Prime
Minister to make a proper apology to the
families of the ninety-six in 2015 David
duckenfield gave evidence and now four
years later the audio recording of it
has just been released do you agree with
the following the people died in a crush
in the central pens yes sir that if they
had not been permitted to flow down the
tunnel into those central pens that
would not have occurred yes sir the
closing the tunnel would have prevented
that and therefore would have prevented
the tragedy yes sir that you failed to
recognize that there was a need to close
that tunnel I did fail to recognize that
sir yes and therefore failed to take
steps to achieve that I did so that
fairly was the direct cause of the
deaths of 96 persons in the Hillsborough
tragedy yes sir David duckenfield was
also asked about the lie he told on the
afternoon of the disaster when he told
the FA that fans had broken their way
into the ground
I was probably deeply ashamed
embarrassed greatly distressed I
probably didn't want to admit to myself
or anyone else what the situation is
what I would like to say to the
Liverpool families is this
I regret that omission and I shall
regret it to my dying day but in 2016
the inquest jury found first of all that
the fans who who died and who went to
hills but weren't to blame in any way
and secondly really crucially that
though
who died were unlawfully killed I always
hoped I'd read that we get the decision
I'm only glad to do this I was one of
the few journalists allowed inside the
courtroom when the verdicts were handed
down and from the families were crying
the lawyers were crying they tested me I
felt that sense of history but I
remember at the same time wondering what
it would mean for the next step of the
legal journey this was unlawful killing
so someone's broke the law so who is it
the inquests found that David
duckenfield Zach shion's contributed to
the deaths but an inquest isn't a trial
the match commander was charged with the
manslaughter of 95 Liverpool fans the
96th victim Tony bland died nearly four
years after the disaster too late to be
included in the case being here at
Preston Crown Court today feels a bit
like deja vu because we were all here
back in the spring that jury couldn't
decide if he was guilty or innocent
so a retrial was ordered and here we are
now with the prosecution starting again
it's like Groundhog Day just history
repeating itself all over again
we are quite scared and I'm fiercely
filled with a little bit of dreads right
honest
breaking news the trial of the Hillsboro
match commander David duckenfield let's
get a fiona trot that's what the jury
have just turned returned a verdict of
not guilty they say that 75 year old
David duckenfield the man who is match
commander on the day of the Hillsborough
disaster is not guilty of gross
negligence manslaughter
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96 people have found to have been
unlawfully killed to a criminal standard
by an inquest jewelry and somebody has
got to be held responsible for 96 deaths
it's the biggest sporting disaster in
British legal history no one will ever
take away the fact that our loved ones
we're unlawfully killed we know the
truth of what happened and I just hope
that everybody else can sleep easy
tonight knowing that they've taken away
our chance to grieve and the chance for
truth to be known to this country we
should all care about Hillsborough
because it's a disaster which says so
much about so many different aspects of
British life and society from going to
football games but all seater stadia
what it says about our judicial system
our police forces the way victims were
cared for then in the late 80s and the
way they are now the way we respond to
large-scale disasters and then at the
heart of it of course are the 96 people
who went to a football match thinking
they were just going for a great
families day out and they never came
home and I never forget that that could
have been me could have been you it
could have been any of us if any
positive aspect is to come from Hills
is that we have to care about them and
we have to care about that and the
lessons that can be learned so that
nothing on that sort of scale ever
happens again
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