It has taken 27 years to rupture down official lies and establish that 96 Liverpool fans were unlawfully killed. Celebrate a victory for justice – and make sure it never happens again“You’ll never walk alone” sang the families of the 96 who had died at Hillsborough on a sunny afternoon 27 years ago. It was a spontaneous and deeply emotional outburst on the steps of the coroner’s court in Warrington,only moments after the jury had at final vindicated their long struggle to uncover the truth of what happened to their sons and daughters, their husbands, and wives and parents at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989. They were unlawfully killed,the jury decided, mainly but not only because of the rude negligence of the police, or one man in specific,the match commander, Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield.
The emergency services, or Sheffield Wednesday,whose ground it was, and safety engineers all contributed to the scale of the disaster, and the jury decided. But the fans,who for so long were unjustly branded as drunken louts whose behaviour was the real cause of the disaster, were entirely exonerated.
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Source: theguardian.com