A LIVERPOOL MP who survived the Hillsborough football stadium disaster as a teenager is calling on ministers to include the tragedy and subsequent fight for justice in the school curriculum.

Ian Byrne, Labour MP for Liverpool West Derby, was 17 when he attended the Liverpool v Nottingham Forest FA cup match at Sheffield’s Hillsborough stadium on April 15 1989.

He escaped, but 97 Liverpool fans were killed and his father was seriously injured as police caused fans to surge onto terraces, causing a deadly crush.

Mr Byrne has placed an early day motion before the House of Commons, calling for the event and the campaign for justice to be taught in schools.

The motion “recognises the important role of education in learning the lessons from the disaster, and calls on the government to include the Hillsborough disaster in the national curriculum.”

It also calls for “a programme of education which should cover the events of the past 32 years, the continuing campaign for justice and how we ensure the events of that fateful day are not forgotten and that the ensuing miscarriage of justice is never repeated.”

After the tragedy police and media blamed fans for the deaths and earlier this year Mr Byrne recalled being left “questioning my own eyes” after “smears and lies” were published.

Survivors and families of those killed campaigned for almost 30 years to establish an inquiry into the disaster which eventually exposed the truth — but nobody was held accountable for what happened.