Concerns had been expressed over Hillsborough since 1981 when similar instances , but with no fatalities, had occurred.
It is now believed that up to 41 of the 96 who perished might have survived if the response to the disaster had been different.
164 witness statements had been altered and 116 statements unfavourable to South Yorkshire Police had been removed.
It was identified by the independent enquiry that the then Conservative MP for Sheffield Hallam, the late Irvine Patnick, passed inaccurate and untrue information from the police to the press thereby influencing one of the most infamous headlines in history
It is now understood that South Yorkshire Police had performed blood alcohol tests on the victims, some of them children, and ran computer checks to impugn their reputation. They were of course Liverpool fans and had caused the Heysel Stadium disaster, they must be in the wrong.
How wrong they were.
http://hillsborough.independent.gov.uk/
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