As Tributes Paid To Relatives Of The 96 Hillsborough Victims South Yorkshire CC Suspended

Wednesday, 27 April 2016 13:39

Tributes have been paid in the House Of Commons today to the relatives of the 96 victims of the Hillsborough Disaster who after 27 years yesterday secured the long awaited verdict of unlawful killing.

Prime Minister David Cameron said: “the bereaved families and survivors of the Hillsborough Disaster have had to wait 27 long years for the full facts of what happened. And it is only due to their tireless bravery in pursuing the truth that we arrived at this momentous verdict.

All families and survivors now have official confirmation of what they always knew was the case, that the Liverpool fans were utterly blameless in the disaster that unfolded at Hillsborough.”

Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham said that "real justice" had been delivered, but that "those responsible must be held to account".

A statement was issued by South Yorkshire Police’s current Chief Constable David Crompton (pictured), the force has and continues to face accusations of an “establishment cover up” following the disaster.

The statement reads: "I want to make it absolutely clear that we unequivocally accept the verdict of unlawful killing and the wider findings reached by the jury in the Hillsborough Inquests.

On 15^th April 1989, South Yorkshire Police got the policing of the FA cup semi-final at Hillsborough catastrophically wrong. It was and still is the biggest disaster in British sporting history. That day 96 people died and the lives of many others were changed forever. The force failed the victims and failed their families.

Today, as I have said before, I want to apologise unreservedly to the families and all those affected.

However in developments this afternoon CC David Crompton was suspended, the move comes after comments in the House of Commons from Mr Burnham who claimed there had been a "27 year cover up".

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