Hillsborough families await release of confidential papers
Monday 10 September 2012
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EmailFamilies of the Hillsborough disaster victims may get nearer to the truth surrounding the deaths of their loved ones this week.
Official papers, some of which had been covered by the 30-year rule, will be released from the files of 80 organisations including the government, South Yorkshire Police, Sheffield City Council, the South Yorkshire coroner and the fire and ambulance services.
Ninety-six Liverpool supporters died in a crush at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium on April 15 1989, where their team were to meet Nottingham Forest in an FA Cup semi-final. A 1990 report into the disaster by Lord Justice Taylor found that the main reason for the disaster was a failure of "police control."
But families of the victims say it is an injustice that no individual or organisation has been held fully accountable.
Hillsborough Families Support Group chairwoman Margaret Aspinall, who lost her 18-year-old son James in the disaster, said: "They did all not die in an accident and it's absolutely ludicrous to suggest that."
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