Mock up of what The Sun should publish.
The result of the Hillsborough Independent Panel’s enquiry into the disaster in which 96 soccer fans lost their lives is welcome but is a damning indictment of the police and government at the time. The families have always known the scale of the cover up and it’s a scandal that it has taken 23 years to get to this point.
Kelvin MacKenzie’s apology to the people of Liverpool and today’s headline story in the Sun are in the words of one the victim’s parents too little, too late. Trevor Hicks, who lost two daughters, rightly branded MacKenzie as ‘low life’.
The former editor’s claim that he was misled by the information he was given by a senior police officer and a senior local MP is no defence. Continue reading
