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House of Commons
London
Dear Sir
20 April 1998
I wrote to you recently regarding the Hillsborough tragedy. I
asked for a personal reply but - as expected - someone else
replied on your behalf. I understand that you are a busy man but
when voters - the people who elect you - receive replies from
assistants they get the impression that the person they have voted
for is no longer interested in their problems.
One of the main attributes of a politician is to avoid an issue
he/she cannot answer directly, so - in plain english - please
answer yes or no to the following questions. All I am asking for
is YOUR opinion, Mr Straw, from all that you know about
Hillsborough.
1. Do you think Hillsborough should have been used for this
match?
2. Do you think that police crowd control at that end of the
ground was badly organised?
3. Do you think that a person trained in crowd control should
have noticed a dangerous situation building up long before
3.00pm (I was there at 2.30pm and it was desperate then)?
4. Do you think that it was (I can't find a word strong enough)
idiotic to allow thousands of anxious fans to surge into
an already packed area, with no escape?
5. Do you believe that the man in charge is ultimately
responsible when things go wrong? After all that's what
he's there for.

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Mr Jack Straw MP
House of Commons
20 April 1998
6. Do you think that JUSTICE has been done?
Remember Yes or No and signed by yourself or a reply will mean
nothing.
Yours sincerely

Tony Blair MP
Prime Minister,
House of Commons,
Westminster,
London.
Dear Sir,
HiUsborouah Decision
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18th February, 1998.
I grew up just inside N. Wales with an adopted family from Liverpool. From this background I
developed a keen interest in supporting Liverpool FC and became very active within the Labour
Party. I campaigned for the Labour Party throughout the 1970's and 1980's and became a
Constituency Party Secretary and later a Clwyd County Councillor.
Above all I supported Labour since, without reading any great political thesis, I believed simply
that the Labour Party was the Party most keenly interested in fairness and social justice.
Although my activism in politics declined as my business demands increased my sense of
frustration with the previous government, and my desire to see it replaced by a Labour
Government, always remained strong. Above all I hoped that a new government, a Labour
Government, would set about righting the injustices that had been inflicted upon so many groups
and individuals by the Tory regime over so many years.
Fortunately, for myself, I missed the tragic game at Hillsborough. I have nevertheless remained
touched by the tragedy and have felt very concerned about the original inquiry. The arbitrary
decision of the Coroner in disregarding events after a set time, the discrepancies within police
evidence not to mention their absolute failure to admit liability and their decision not to raise any
disciplinary action is beyond my comprehension. For goodness sake Ninety-six people died!
As a manager of a chemical company safety is of paramount importance to employees and me.
Regrettably, I have had cause on occasion to discipline a few employees when they have failed
in their duty or have acted negligently and risked a breach of safety standards. I have even had
to dismiss one chap. However, their actions have never got close to injuring anyone let alone
result in multiple deaths. The potential to cause injury was sufficient to justify action. What on
earth can be said to justify such an absolute abdication of responsibility by the Police and
Emergency Services in the case of Hillsborough?
Surely, after such a tragic event of this magnitude we have a right to get to the real truth and
ensure that every possible aspect surrounding the events are thoroughly dealt with to everyone's
satisfaction. Justice cannot be served, and will not be seen to be served, whilst there are so
many unanswered questions. I am absolutely ashamed o f the decision announced by the
Home Secretary today.
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It is only a token gesture on my part, but for what it is worth I absolutely promise that I shall
never ever again vote or support your party. You have today so clearly failed to act On this
miscarriage of justice. There appears to be little or nothing between you and your predecessors.
I'm sure you will, with the arrogance of power and given the size of your majority, be tempted to
dismiss such letters as mine. You would do well to remember that such contempt would
ultimately and absolutely end your Government's term of office just as surely as it did with that
personification of intolerance and arrogance herself, Margaret Thatcher.
As one who spent a significant part of my life supporting Labour and encouraging others to do
the same - 1 can only say I feel utterly and totally betrayed.
Yours sincerely, a

Copy to: Jack Straj
19th February, 1998
Mr. T. Blair,
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or disciplined for their lack o f actions'and unprofessional conduct leads one to support
the change which is obviously needed in Police Complaints procedure, so that the situation
no longer prevails where the police investigate themselves. Legislation is urgently required
for independent police judicial enquiries so that justice can be seen to be done,
I would Mke to guess that a© Sealer Police Officer has ever been prosecuted, resulting in a
custodial sentence, for misconduct in these kind of circumstances.
As motorists we are often reminded that ignorance is no defence, however, this does not
seem to apply to the police!
What is criminal is that Jack Straw and the Government had the opportunity to right this
terrible injustice-but has chose not to and it seems this investigation was merely a token
gesture, a sham and nothing more.
What was that about a fair and just society?
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The Rt Hon. J. Straw Esq., MP
Secretary of State
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HILLSBOROUGH SCRUTINY
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Like a!! other Merseyside Districts, there were families in W est Lancashire who were tragically
bereaved as a result of this disaster. W hilst you may be satisfied that Lord Justice Stuart-
Smith may consider that he received sufficient information from South Yorkshire Police, the
Hillsborough families remain convinced that documentation which may have assisted the
presentation of their submissions has been withheld from them by the police.
of the previous judicial proceedings has been more than "adequately demonstrated, "as a
result, the Council has now instructed me to write to you to call upon you to reconsider your
decision not to reopen the Hillsborough inquiry and no doubt you will consider this request by
this Council and the other Merseyside local authorities accordingly.
I look forward to hearing from you in due course.
Yours sincerely,
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There was a slogan I remember from the 1930's The Tories you cannot trust
the Independants you can never find when needed. Vote Labour the party of
the people" Is Labour now only the party of the privileged few?.
Remember "HILLSBOROUGH" 9 years ago 96 people lost their lives and to date
not one person has been brought to book. There have been many disasters
trains, planes, coaches, always persons or persom responsible have been
either disciplined or given a custodial sentence. But not Hillsborough.
I like many thousands of others sat and watched that TERRIBLE tragedy unfold
My first reaction utter anguish and helplessness at not being able to help
the victims. Then anger at how this was allowed to happen with so many
police and surveillance equipment available. Someone somewhere was ultimately
responsible for this awaful carange causing the deaths of 96 innocent people.
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The man at the head of security of this wiraja operation "Mr. Duckenfield"
"Retired on health grounds*' how very convenient, no reprimand not even a slap
on the wrist, just a nice fat pension and a happy retirement, very neat
and tidy. Others were given compension for their part in the tragedy.
Almost like a pat on the back for a "job well done". Now we have a Labour
Government "New Labour" great hopes, a promise that if elected a new enquiry
would be launched, with the new evidence that the grieving relatives had found.
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So what has happened "NOTHING" Oh yes you appointed a Judge to look at the new
evidence, which had been conviently gone missing during the first enquiry along
with witness's who were never called the first time around. The Judge methinks
had an opinion already formed when he made a so called "joke" on meeting some of
the relatives for the first time, about Liverpool fans turning up late.
That if you remember was one of the many slurs made against these unfortunate
people. Not a remark you would expect from a person approaching an enquiry
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with an open mind. Mr Strawifa the light of recent events the pre-election
talk of a new enquiry was to my mind very cruel and cynical. "HILLSBOROUGH"
will never go away, until a full and open enquiry is held, there are many
questions that must be answered, by the people who were involved. Then maybe these
people the bereaved familys' will be able to grieve and truly lay their loved
ones to rest.
I have been a strong Labour supporter for many years, having cast my firstimportant
vote in the General Election in the 1940's But I now feel that I cannot Support a
Party that has so cruely let down some of its staunches supporters.
One vote maybe not much in the overall electorate, but these things have a nasty
habit of snowballing. I was always told that every vote was important.
So come on Mr Straw get this enquiry underway, you have both the power
and authority to do so.
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I am currently a student at the Wigan & Leigh College
stjidying^coinguter course, I also happen to behfCudying the
Hillsborough disaster?^)
noticed that Mr Jack Straw has turned down the
chance for another inquest, when they were told that they are able
to have another inquest if Labour got into power. Now I find this
unfair and very unreasonable, does he have a specific reason on
why he is breaking this promise?.
I don’t mean to sound too blunt but there are people who
have voted for your party and all the promises that you have made
to them so far have been broken or nothing has been done about it.
My Father has been a Labour voter ever since he was able to vote,
and has told me that they are the best party that keep to their
word. Every demonstration that he has been on I’ve been with him
but now we are both appalled by the behaviour and the way that
the Labour Party have reacted in most cases. Even I’ve wanted to
vote for Labour ever since I was a little girl. I could not wait to vote
for the best party but now I’ve seen them in power, like others, I’ve
changed my mined.
My friends, family and myself are very disgusted by the
way yourself and Mr Straw are handling the Hillsborough case. I
found it very apparelling and very upsetting to see that A L L the
evidence is there and you are not allowing another inquest. Would
you please care to explain your reasons for this? I would also like to
know that if your children were killed in the disaster would you
feel different? what would you do then?. Why won’t you see that all
the parents of the deceased need is one more chance to prove what
really happened and that A L L the evidence needs to be brought
forward.

I may not have been there but I have studied closely and you are
able to see that it could have been prevented even with the old evidence
not just the new. Many people are disgusted at the way you have handled
many cases not just Hillsborough for example things like Benefits, the
D.S.S., Jobs, Schools E.T.C.
Yours Sincerely

The Rt Hon Tony Blair MP
Prime Minister
10 Downing Street
London
England
6 March 1998.
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I write as a disillusioned member o f society disheartened by the efforts o f this administration in
governing this great country. Like millions I was encouraged by the prospect o f a Labour
government, but am disappointed that it appears that this administration is compounding the
i government.
There are a number of questions that I, and I am sure the majority of the country, would like
answered.
Being Welsh, a main concern is the advent o f the Assembly. Now that the population o f Wales
have demonstrated their desire for a separate parliament for this principality, there comes the
issue as where to locate the Assembly. I am interested to learn why it is that the Secretary of
State for Wales and the Welsh Office appear to feel that Cardiff has the divine right to play
Would it not be more prudent to locate the Assembly in a city such as Swansea that is in
desperate need o f the Assembly than simply place it in Cardiff at the convenience o f the Welsh
Office ?. The City and County o f Swansea is in desperate need o f attracting investment in
order to improve the infrastructure. This has proven to be difficult with Swansea receiving
only a fraction o f the amount o f investment as Cardiff. The Assembly situated in Swansea
would facilitate an increase in investment and lead to an improvement in the infrastructure of
the City and surrounding areas and facilitate a badly needed facelift for the City itself.
As Cardiff have received so much more funding than Swansea it is no surprise that it is a much
bettor and nicer city than Swansea. However to redress this balance, Swansea would benefit
from the Assembly far more than Cardiff, and would be able to reduce the c h a s m in quality,
job opportunities and appearance that is apparent between the two cities. Surely it is more
logical to attract investment and develop those areas o f Wales in need o f improvement and not
just focus attention in the capital. After all this is an Assembly for Wales, and not all the Welsh
live in Cardiff.
Unemployment is another topic o f concern, particularly from my viewpoint as a graduate. I
graduated just under two years ago and spent 9 months on benefit until entering my current

post, which does not require nor utilise my degree level knowledge. This is a common state of
affairs amongst graduates in this countiy. I therefore ask why it is that this country pays tuition
fees and grants to students for 3-4 years in order for them to be trained and educated to such a
high standard in the achievement of a degree, only for these graduates upon leaving university
to enter a world that treats them with suspicion, envy and disdain. It is also a world in which
graduates commonly spend 1-2 years, if not more, on income support before getting a job
which requires them to possess nothing more than GCSE’s. It is frustrating for graduates to
work so hard and achieve an excellent qualification only for employers not to suitably
recognise their efforts, knowledge and skills.
It is also frustrating to see the “graduate slack” apparent in this countiy. It is a waste of this
country’s resources in paying for these people to reach degree level only for them to end up in
a job filing papers or answering phones. This is a waste of the graduates knowledge and an
under utilisation of a large segment of the available workforce. This is a loss to the country in
not making best use of those people whom the country has paid for to reach the degree level
standard. In not utilising these graduates, is it not a case of cost inefficiency in incurring the
costs of training these individuals to reach these standards only for these resources to remain
idle or under used ?.
Would it not be prudent therefore to address this problem of under utilisation of resources for
the prosperity of the countiy as well as for the good of the individual in ensuring that suitable
employment opportunities exist that fully utilise the huge pool of resources at the country’s
discretion. This, after all, is a more cost effective and efficient utilisation of these graduates
and would result in a more appropriate input back into the country of the knowledge that has
been passed on to these graduates.
If this were to be addressed, most graduates, if asked, would simply wish for there to be a job
available for them that would utilise their skills, abilities and knowledge, provide them with a
challenge, pay them a wage that reflects their intelligence and skills/abilities and most
importantly allows them to experience job enrichment and job fulfilment.
The increase in Prescription Charges is another concern. With all the publicity of the last few
years regarding the actual cost of these drugs and the profit made on them, I am dismayed that
this administration feels it necessary to make yet more money from the people whose
misfortune it is to be ill. Why should it be that the population of this country have to pay so
much in order to remain healthy ?. Is this not also discriminatory towards those on low
incomes ?. It is not fair that the amount of income a person has determines whether they can
afford to purchase drugs they need to remain healthy. Health should not be something that
only the better off members of this country can afford. Health should be widely available for all
regardless of their financial position. This increasing of prescription charges was a mistake
when the Conservatives were in power just as it is a mistake now. In fact when increases were
made when the Conservatives were in power, these were denounced by your party. Why is it
then that a move across the floor of the House has suddenly led to this drastic U-turn in the
policy of the Labour Party ?.
Finally, I was disappointed to hear of the decision of the Home Secretary re : Hillsborough.
Not only have the families of those killed on that tragic day lost loved ones and been deceived
by the Yorkshire Police regarding video evidence, but now that the video evidence has
surfaced it appears that the government is all the more determined to protect the Police. This

government, and any government for that matter, should be acting in a manner that has the
best interests of the citizens as its main priority, and has the duty to protect the people of this
country. The government should not be protecting the actions of an institution whose duty it
was in April 1989 to ensure the safety of those supporters at Hillsborough, a duty it failed to
perform. The priorities being demonstrated by this government are directed towards the wrong
camp. In refusing this new evidence and protecting the gross negligence of the Yorkshire
Police on that tragic day, this administration is not only insulting and causing upset to the
families of those who died, but also trampling on the graves of those supporters who never
returned from Hillsborough. For their sake, please reconsider this whole case. This cover up
and upset caused to the families of the supporters has gone on for too long.
I look forward to your reply.
Yours sincerely

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From: ____________________
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:47:57 -0800
Subject: Home Office handling of the enquiry into the Hillsborough
disaster.
To: gen.ho@gtnet.gov.uk
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am writng to you as a disillusioned British citizen who
voted for
your Government in the last general election.
I was always under the impression that after a full inquiry
into the
tragic events of April 15 1989, justice would finally be carried
out. I
beleived the Labour party when they promised the families of the
victims
of Hillsborough justice.
It now appears as though you have "laid the matter to rest"
following
last month’s press release. Is this the case? What are you actually
doing now, on behalf of the people who rely on your office solely
to put
right one of the greatest injustice’s of the century?
I personally ignored the people who, prior to May 1 1997,
dismissed
this Labour government, saying it would be the same as any
Conservative
one. However, your promises are just as empty as the previous
government’s always were.
Everybody who was at the ground that day, or who knows the
complete
facts of the disaster, appear to have been ignored from the
beginning.
Your Home Office appears to be quite content to continue to ignore
the
cries for justice.
The nightmare just continues. The families don’t want
sympathy. They
don’t want money. All they want is for someone to actually admit
that
they were wrong and that they didn’t do their jobs properly that
day.
They only want somebody to accept the conseqences of their
failings.
Until you yourselves insist that this is done, you will
continue to be
included on the long list of people who let these families down.
You
know that they are no different from any of your families. They are
normal people who had a relative go to a normal football match, at
a
normal football ground, to be treat so abnormally and so
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the people who controlled their safety that they lost their lives.
You wouldn't allow the injustice to continue for your own
family.
Please do not allow it continue any more for these families.
Thank you for your time,
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Mr Tony Blair
The Prime Minister
10 Downing Street
LONDON
Dear Tony and Prime Minister,
My son. on the
day of the tragedy.
Lite many other parents I waited on the platform at Lime Street Station not knowing
whether my son was alive or dead.lt was not until 10pm on that Saturday night that I saw
my son walking down the platform and I could breath a huge sigh of relieve.
There must be countless thousands of other families who experienced similar trauma
but have said nothing and trusted in Justice.
The Government has spoken and .regardless of politics,we feel humiliated and cheated
by the legal system.and I have written to Jack Spriggs,the Chair of Liverpool Council’s
Hillsborough Disaster Working Party .asking him to plead our case.
I ask you Id reconsider the case with Jack Straw
When will they ever learn?
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I am writing to you to express my grave concerns a
governments decision not to allow a fresh and open inquiry into the Hillsboroucih
disaster.
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disaster or the support group, but as a Labour voter who feels very strongiy that Lord
Smith's report must be set aside to allow for a new inquiry which involves fully all
parties.
Why is always the question,* for justice, for fairness, for equality,
for openess, all these values and perspectives are things that this government holds
dearly and was I believe elected on.
Why then did the recent interview and discussion on ITV
following the second showing of "Hillsborough * leave me knowing there is so much
more. Of ail the issues that were discussed that night, a significant fact to me was that
the chief constable of South Yorkshire had seen Lord Smith's report well before Mr.
Hicks and therefore had very detailed knowledge to argue with.
Yet what is important is that Mr. Hicks and the families have
already identified significant factors in the report that they believe to be untrue /
inaccurate, despite the fact that they had not been allowed as much time to prepare.
Why were the families not given copies of the report at same time as the chief
constable?
if matters are open and fully involve all parties this would not
have happened. It therefore appears to me that Lord Smith's report has to be set aside
as it clearly has not aiiowed for full involvement and leaves significant factors /
questions that are still to be highlighted by the Hillsborough Family Support Group.
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1 March 1998
Dear Mr Blair
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2 2 APR 1898
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I am writing to you in the sincere hope 3 that the in some small way I may add
weight to the campaign for an official %1fatement of accountability for the
tragic events that lead to the deaths of 96 people on the fateful 15th
A p r i l .
Despite the fact that your Home Secretary appears to have admitted in
private to members of the victims families that he knows there was gross
negligence on that day on the part of the police, he was still able to tell
the Commons and therefore the nation that the current verdict takes into
account all the evidence. Do you believe that gross negligence is
'accidental'? What reasons does your governmflfet have for maintaining the
agony of the victims families? Are you aware that they merely seek the
truth to enable them to put t h i s horrific tragedy and even more hideous
whitewash behind them?
As a lifelong Labour supporter, I am growing more disillusioned by the day.
It almost appears that the Tories have left their heartless and immoral
mentality behind to be assumed by those in office, and all the caring and
understanding words of your party in opposition have been tempered by the
fact that now you ARE the establishment.
Just because you have lost the need to fight those in po w e r , please I beg
you do not become the power the nation needs to fight for justice, for
truth and for decency.
Keep true to your hea r t , Tony. Don't allow your ministerial limousine and
trappings of office to lure you in the ivory tower from which the Tories
have so recently fallen to their political death.
I would appreciate your response.
Faithfully,

26th February 1998
PRIME MINISTER
Tony Blair
10 Downing Street
LONDON
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I wish to express my disapproval at the so called ‘New Labour Government’ and the
handljng_Qf_the appeal for a fresh inquest into the tragedy at Hillsborough nine years
ago. Everyone else can see freslfevidence. However, Jack Straw on the advice of
a High Court Judge has said “there is no fresh evidence”.
I feel, like most people, that Labour has let the victims and the families down. If my
memory serves me right, jeers of disapproval where shown at the original verdict
and we all know that the 96 victims did not die an accidental death that day.
Someone was accountable for the tragedy.
I find it so hard to believe that one man could say accidental death and it has got to
be accepted. He was employed for and on behalf of the Tory Government and
therefore in my opinion would obviously have been biased somewhat in their favour.
Having no direct involvement with the families of the victims or their support group. I
feel that more people like me should shout in support of what was a travesty of
justice. I feel that one of the following verdicts would have been more appropriate.
Involuntary Manslaughter or at least Misadventure though the latter would still be a
let off.
Below are examples of situations which would be of an equal comparison.
1. A driver sneezes violently and looses control of his car for a second. He
mounts the kerb and kills a pedestrian. He would be charged with one of the
following. Causing Death through Reckless Driving or Death through
Dangerous Driving.
2. A person is set upon in the street and defends himself. He knocks the
assailant to the floor, he cracks his head and later dies of a brain
haemorrhage. The person being assaulted would be charged with
Manslaughter.

3. A Hotel Manager is not aware that someone has blocked one of his fire exits
and a fire breaks out, people are trapped and killed. He would be charged
with Involuntary Manslaughter.
In all of these cases, though not directly or intentionally killing people, they would all
be accountable for the deaths and would appear in front of a Judge and Jury before
they could be admonished of responsibility. The Senior Police Officer in charge
of CROWD CONTROL that day did not intentionally or directly kill the 96 fans.
However, his actions led to their deaths and therefore in the eyes of the law he must
be accountable.
The ‘Herald of Free Enterprise’ was a recent tragedy in which people were held
accountable.
Ps I enclose a verse communicating my personal feelings towards the incident.
Yours sincerely
Enc.

Hillsborough
A Day To Remember
They went to watch their favourite team
another FA Cup Final, A Wembley Dream
No one could have predicted what was to happen
people in Authority must have been napping
The skies where blue as the teams came out
the Fans they roar, scream and shout
Penned into a closure at the Leppings Lane end
we hope and pray nothing like this happens again
The joyous shouts become a terrifying scream
some people would not see that Wembley dream
Sighs and gasps faces become numb
the people in Authority looked extremely dumb
Fans kept coming on a Senior Officers direction
a fatal mistake was his in indiscretion
96 innocent fans lost their lives that day
one things for sure they'll be remembered always
The plight of the families still goes on
until they get Justice, "Thy will be done"
The Tory enquiry was a cover up or so it seems
When Labour cried out, families saw a radiant beam
Labour came to power and Jack Straw led the way
no one could believe what he said today
He read out a statement, the guidance of a High Court Judge
another enquiry has been fudged
To the 96 who lost their lives that day
the fight for Justice will never be swept away
Justice for the suffering the hurt and pain
those 96 lives will not have been lost in vain
9 . 0 2 . 9 8

The Rt. Hon. Jack Straw MP,
Home Secretary,
c/o Houses of Commons,
Westminster,
London,
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Dear Sir,
/
19th February 1998
This letter is probably the most difficult one I have ever had the misfortune to put together.
I am writing with reference to the events yesterday, and your subsequent decision not to launch a new
inquiry into the Hillsborough Disaster in April 1989.
You will not be surprised to learn, that I am a Liverpool season ticket holder, and was present at the
Hillsborough disaster on that fateful day. By pure chance, I was able to exchange my standing ticket
for a seating ticket only hours before the game. However, this does not detract from the horror I bore
witness to.
To say I am apalled at your decision, would be an understatement. Before last years election, you
made it very clear to everyone, that you were fully behind a complete investigation. Now firmly sitting
in Government, its simply amazing to see both yours and Labour’s attitude “cool” completely.
I was proud to vote Labour at the last election, to finally be rid of the “corrupt-ridden” previous
Government, was a blessing in more ways than one. I firmly believed, wrongly as it now turns out, that
we had a Government committed to finding the truth about the Disaster.
Before the so called new inquiry began, I had serious misgivings about the new Judge taking over the
investigation. Judge Stuart-Smith's outrageous comments towards the family’ s: “being late, like the
Liverpool supporters” , hardly instilled confidence in anyone. Rightly, as it turned out.
However, I find it unbelievable, that no new inquiry is to be launched despite:
(a) Vital evidence & witnesses were withheld from the original inquest...So how on earth can the
original inquest be “accurate"?
(b) Everyone knowing the Police lied about events that happened.
(c) Video tapes being “stolen" by persons unknown...(Yet only the Police having anything to gain
by them going “missing”. )
(d) Missing tapes not being “significant”....how do you know, if you haven’t seen them?!
(e) The Police being held accountable for the disaster....But no one being prosecuted?!
(f ) The original Inquest having a cut off point of 3.15pm...even though people were still capable of
being saved after this point.

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(g) The Emergency Services being praised What for? their delay is weii documented, including
sitting outside the ground in lines of vehicles!
(h) Evidence provided of Police tampering with evidence....How can this NOT effect an inquest?!
These are just some of the points that need answers to, it cannot be brushed under the carpet.
The Police were guilty of gross negligence on a grand scale. You have a duty to the people of this
country, to find out the truth and in doing so, prosecute those responsible.
As you have failed to do this, 1 believe you should take the families advice and resign. However, I
doubt for one minute you will do so, but I hope you can live with your conscience.
As Trevor Hicks accurately said yesterday: “New Government, new whitewash.”
Yours faithfully

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Dear Mr Straw,
We were devastated at your recent decision
not to hold a public inquiry into the
Hillsborough Disaster.
To us, it was evident that the men, women
and children that suffocated on that day were
victims of police incompetence at its very
worst. They were also victims of an ambulance
service that failed to put an emergency
action plan into action, and that didn't seem
to know the meaning of the word
'triage'. That has been stated by an
ambulanceman that was present on the day, so
it's not a unjustified statement. Also, only
14 of the vicims made it to hospital; that is
unforgivable.
The families of those who died, have had 9
years of false accusations, with their loved
ones being accused of drunken behaviour,
robbing the dead, and to quote 'The Sun',

"urinating on the dead." Even today, there
are still those who seem to think it was all
the Liverpool fans' fault.
96 men, women, and, don't forget, children
died in horrific circumstances. 96 families
were destroyed, 96 families will never be
able to come to terms with what happened
unless the guilty parties are made to pay. 96
lives were wiped out, and no-one seems to
care.
We, as members of the public, feel we have
the right to demand an inquiry. We urge you,
Mr Straw to reconsider. Be courageous, make a
stand, and give not only the relatives and
friends of the victims, but the survivors who
have to live with the horror of Hillsborough
every day, the peace of mind they deserve.
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9th. March,1998.
Dear Mr.Howarth,
Thank you for your letter,in reply to mine,on the subject of the
Hillsborough disaster.
I am bound to say that,interesting though your long missive to your constituency party
might be,it does not satisfy me in any shape or form.
Everybody on Merseyside and the vast majority of the rest of the country knows that
the verdict of accidental death is a vile travesty and must be overturned.
The next step along the way to achieving this objective must be a full parliamentary
debate and the people of Merseyside are looking to their own MP’s to ensure that one
takes place.
Towards the end of your long communication to your constituency you say that you
don’t know how to help.
I would respectfully suggest that you simply throw your weight behind the campaign
for justice this is all that is being asked of you.
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Yours sincerely,

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NFortey, 19:05 23/03/98 ES, Hillsborough
From:
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 19:05:35 EST
To: gen.ho@gtnet.gov.uk
Subject: Hillsborough
As a life long labour voter and a working man I would like to
express my
disgust at Jack Straws recent decision on the Hillsborough tragedy.
I will
never with much regret never vote labour again. Could you please
pass on my
feelings.
many thanks
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n 18:04 19/03/98 +0, JUSTICE
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 18:04:10 +0100
From:
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Subject: JUSTICE
Justice for The Hillsbrough Families, if there is a rest of justice
in
Your country.
And remember: They'll never walk alone.
Sincerly ' , Norway
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The Rt. Hon J Straw MP
Houses of Parliament
LONDON
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Dear Sir ,
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I feel I must write this letter twb«wjl«Lq1 1 'faster. I myself went to this
game, aged sixteen, on a properly organised supporters’ coat|h. I will try to give you
my account of what happened that day.
I arrived at roughly 1.30pm in plenty of time for the 3.00pm kick-off. After buying
some sweets etc. my companion and I decided to enter the ground. On our approach
to the Leppings Lane end, a crowd was already gathered. As you will know from
reports etc. this end of the ground was like a funnel and you have to queue to enter - 1
still remember this being a bottle-neck prior to entering the main turnstile area to gain
entry to the terraces. This was some sixty minutes before kick-off and not what I
would call a sudden rush of people arriving late to gain entry. At this stage I was
already being pushed. I remember thinking, even at sixteen years of age, that one
Policemen on a horse wouldn’t be able to deal with this already growing magnitude of
people. My rather limited experience of football matches had told me that much.
I come from a good solid working/middle-class family in a nice area of rural Cheshire).
I mention classes because I still feel to this day I have to justify my being there, my
behaviour and that of my fellow supporters. To certain people, the truth could not be
simpler. I do not want revenge, but justice, hopefully in a moderate way to banish
people’s pre conceived views on what happened that day. As I feel the frustration of
the families who lost people that day, I can’t help but feel that the Government, past
and present, wish this would just go away - a drunken load of Liverpudlians arriving
late for a football match. I was neither of these. In fact, if it was not for one of these
pre-judged Liverpool fans, I would not be here today. It was him that pulled me out
from the front of the Lepping Lane End terracing, after being almost pushed back in by
a Policeman. To be fair, the look on that Police Constable’s face was one of sheer
shock. I don’t think he knew what to do - should he let us onto the pitch or not - that
could have been his dilemma. Somewhere along the line his actions must have been
orchestrated by a superior. Why the lack of communication , the endless melee of
confusion, the faulty camera, only one mounted Policeman? Why was kick-off not
delayed - questions we keep asking and asking. The list is endless.
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With all the recent T/v & News paper
coverage of the "Hillsborough disaster",! find that every one of my acquaintance ,to whom 1
have discussed it with are of the opinion that "Hicks" is only out to try and obtain as much
money as it is possible to get!
Has it been at all voiced ,o r, the matter
raised as to how many of that "MOB" that "Forced" the gates to be opened at Hillsborough
on that fatefull day had TICKETS..?!!, from what my knowledge is of that kind of mob that
attends those "Special Matches" they go with "Intent & with Malice afore thought" to get into
the Ground with or with out tickets.
Of all the the people that 1 have ever seen,
wheather in life or on T/v screens "Hicks" has shown the least remorse for the loss of Loved
ones, I for one can not talk about my family tragidy even after twenty four years with-out
showing remorse s till!. If he was so concerned about his girls ,...Why wasn't he with them at
the moment the Disaster started, what is his exuse..?!! But..giving him the benefit of some
loss , it does seem that he is taken more up with Revenge than with Remorse .
Should there be any reason or cause that
"Hillsborough" is brought again into Public notice ...USE MORE SHOTS OF THE MOB
OUTJ3IDE THE GATES. Jll.it’s GENERAL PUBLIC that will be the only way to CLOSE the
Issue of "Hillsborough" once and for all.
Sincerely,

-i
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The Rt Hon Jack Straw MP
House of Commons
Westminster
London 21st February 1998
Dear Home Secretary,
I am not a Labour supporter and have never voted Labour but, somewhat to my surprise, since 1st
May I find myself approving policy after policy, applauding decision after decision. The Government
seems to be getting most things right in these first months and I have been particularly impressed by
what the Home Office is achieving.
I write to mention two recent matters. Firstly your refusal to re-open the Hillsburgh enquiry into the
tragic deaths of the football fans. That is unquestionably the right decision and I hope you will not be
moved by the howls of dismay which have followed.
However, amidst the technicalities of video evidence, times of death, police action or inaction, etc,
there is one central fact which has been more or less lost sight of and which I think you do a disservice
not to point out to football fans everywhere. This is that in the last analysis it was not the police, nor
the people running Hillsburgh nor the Football Association nor the Government who killed the fans.
This was done by people behind pushing and pushing until other people were killed.
I go regularly to Murrayfield, which is somewhat bigger than Hillsburgh in capacity I think, and there
is never any sense of danger in the vast crowd of some sixty thousand. I was even there on the
infamous occasion when the SRU blocked off the two massive gates leading from the car park into the
stadium, usually kept wide open, and replaced them with four turnstiles. The resulting build up of
people trying to get in was incredible and after half an hour in this jam none of the people in it were
too happy to hear "Flower of Scotland" being sung and the game starting. But there was no undue
shoving - people realized that this would just be counter-productive.
And this is the real message of Hillsburgh which I think has become obscured by all the attempts to
blame the authorities. The fans must take responsibility for conducting themselves properly, otherwise
such accidents will happen whatever steps are taken to improve the organization of such events. This
message seems almost completely lost unfortunately in a welter of technicalities and blaming the
authorities.
f The second matter which I would like particularly to applaud is the new policy towards the freemasons.
There is no place in an open society for an organization which operates in such a secretive manner -
and here the problem may well be what they are suspected of doing or not doing because of their
secrecy and their perceived influence rather than what they are actually doing. You are on exactly the
right lines in encouraging anyone in a position of authority to expose membership of the freemasons,
only I would make it obligatory not voluntary as I understand you are recommending.
But well done New Labour on many, many initiatives which have my total, if surprised, support.
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Subject: FOR THE ATTN OF MR. JACK STRAW
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Dear Mr. Straw,
No doubt when you see the word Hillsborough you will probably
to simply stop reading this message (if you ever get it in the
first place). However I would urge you to read on just to
hear the
point of a normal football fan.
I understand that you in fact only carried out your job by
ruling
out a new inquiry into the TRAGEDY after the Lord Justice
Stuart-Smith's report you received. Well - I would like you to
do
"more than your job" and have the decency to investigate ALL
the
evidence (especially the evidence after the 3.15pm cut-off)
According to numerous eye witness reports there were people
"vomiting" and "having convulsions" on the pitch at 3.20pm. I
don't
want to bore you with old evidence but how can a court of law
in
any democratic country take evidence from policemen down the
far
end of a pitch and IGNORE evidence from family and friends who
held
their dying loved ones in their own arms???????
I am not going to go into detail about the obvious bad
policing
(I'm sure you'll personally/unofficially agree with this
statement)
but surely it should be made clear that it was this bad
policing
that definitely led to the deaths of 96 people and this
tragedy
could have been avoided. Yes there was fans traveling without
tickets and there was fans that were drunk - but is this a
crime???
I have been to hundreds of games where this IS ALWAYS THE CASE
but
there is always adequate policing to deal with this 'problem'.
The evidence goes on and on - please please please have the
decency
look into this matter further.
Before the election last year - Labour vowed to do
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"everything in their power"
to bring about justice. Well please see that everything in
their
power means everything in their power - and not everything in
their job.
One last thing if you get the chance read Dr. Ed Walker's
report in
the Telegraph dated 18/02/98.
I hope the voice of one normal person merits a reply.
Thank you for your time.
"We shall not forget"
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A FORMER ambulance driver in the front line
at the Hillsborough disaster has backed
bereaved relatives’ bid for a private prosecution.
Tony Edwards (38) was the
only ambulanceman of 84
called to the ground who
worked on the pitch, trying
to help the injured and dying.
Speaking exclusively to The Sunday
Post he said, “I’m disappointed, but not
surprised, that the Home Secretary has
decided against holding an inquiry.
“While his investigations were under way
I offered several times to give evidence but
was ignored. In the end I demanded
investigators should hear me, and they did.
“The official line is the ambulance service
could ~ot get vehicles on the pitch because
of a ramp for the disabled. This is nonsense.
“You can’t get an ambulance down a
railway embankment to a train crash but
that doesn’t stop paramedics going to help.
W e n t w ro n g
“The ambulance and emergency services
should hold up their hands and say, This is
where we went wrong’.
“It would have helped the families if they
had already done so, but now relatives are
angrier. There must be a full investigation.
“If the families raise a private prosecution,
I’m prepared to stand in court and say what
I know. I have lived with this every day
since the disaster.”
Ninety-six Liverpool fans died at the FA
Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest in
Sheffield in 1989.
The horror has haunted Tony ever since.
Shortly afterwards he resigned and moved
to Scotland to rebuild his life.
He said, “When I arrived at thp-pYnnnri
there were 84~ambulance_staff but l was_the-
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to help the casualties.
“The ambulances and crews were either
999 man backs
prosecution
outside the ground or at the gym. Who can
say how many people died because of the
way the emergency services responded?” - S
~ At one point, one of the casualties left on
the field was teenager Sarah Hicks, who
died with her sister.
Tony, who left Sarah in the care of a fan,
Says, “Some who died could have been i
saved. I have to live with the fact I left somebody
on the field who stood a chance of
being saved, who would have recovered.”
Tony now runs a bike hire business and is
rebuilding his life with his wife, Laura, and
20-month-old daughter, Rosa.
“When I came here I was in a state and
my GP suggested counselling,” says Tony.
“Since then my life has improved but Hillsborough
is always at the back of my mind.”
While Tony is angry about the incompetence
of the emergency services he has only
praise for the fans.
“They were organised, prioritised casualties.
gave first-aid, put them on billboards—
then ran to the other end of the field where _
the ambulance service was i ust waiting.
“But why wasn’t the ambulance service
doing wKatthe fans were? Sa31y the only
way forward now for thefamilies is to take
out a private prosecution.
• “The horror of Hillsborough is still with
me but I cannot ran away from this, I will
help them if I can.”
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SINN FEIN hinted
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abandon the Ulster
peace talks.
The suggestion came after
dissident ^republicans were
blamed for a 5001b bomb attack
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Co Down.
The p arty ’s president Gerry
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wais still intact and called for an end
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negotiating table until March, chief
negotiator M artin McGuinness
hinted they might not be back at all.
The party is to have a meeting
with the Republic’s Taoiseach,
Bertie Ahem soon and has asked to
see Tony Blair as well. Republican
sources in Belfast said a decision
would be made after that.
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have not decided to return to the
talks. . . we may not go back, yes,
that’s a possibility. . . because the
talks have lost credibility over the
events of recent weeks.”
Seven RUC men and four civilians
were slightly hurt in the Moira
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Northern Ireland political
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killed after examining one end of
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ever since the talks had started that
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Continuity IRA (CIRA) is opposed
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free their sons, former soldiers who’ve spent
2000 days behind bars for the murder of a
Belfast teenager.
Scots Guardsmen Jim Fisher (30) and Mark
Wright (25) received life sentences after they
shot and killed Peter McBride in Belfast in
1992, because they suspected he was carrying a
terrorist bomb.
Isobel Wright from Arbroath will join Sheila
Fisher from Ayr at the Copthorne Hotel, in
Glasgow’s George Square at 11am today, to
demand that the Government set them free
from prison in Northern Ireland.
The soldiers were charged with murder, tried
by a Northern Ireland “Diplock court” (which
has no jury) and given life sentences. They
have now served five years. V
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I am writing to you in the sincere hope that in some small way I may add
weight to the campaign for an official statement of accountability for the
tragic events that lead to the deaths of 96 people on the fateful 15th
A p r i l .
Despite the fact that you appear to have admitted in private to members of
the victims families that you feel there was gross negligence on that day
on the part of the police, you were still able to tell the Commons and
therefore the nation that the current verdict takes into account all the
evidence. Do you believe that gross negligence is 'accidental'? What
reasons do you have for maintaining the agony of the victims families? Are
you aware that they merely seek the truth to enable them to put this
horrific tragedy and even more hideous whitewash behind them?
As a lifelong Labour supporter, I am growing more disillusioned by the day.
It almost appears that the Tories have left their heartless and immoral
mentality behind to be assumed by those in office, and all the caring and
understanding words of your party in opposition have been tempered by the
fact that now you ARE the establishment.
Just because you have lost the need to fight those in p o w e r , please I beg
you do not become the power the nation needs to fight for justice, for
truth and for decency.
Keep true to your he a r t , Jack. Don't allow your ministerial limousine and
trappings of office to lure you in the ivory tower from which the Tories
have so recently fallen to their political death.
I would appreciate your response.
F a i t h f u l l y ,

DEAR'MI|V ‘STRAW,
I FEEL I HAVE TO WRITE TO YOU
CONCERNING YOUR DECISION NOT TO ALLOW A NEW
INQUIRY INTO THE HILLSBOROUGH DISASTER.
AS YOU HAVE PROBERBLY
GUESSED I THINK YOUR DECISION IS WRONG AND I
KNOW THIS LETTER WILL MAKE NO DIFFERENCE TO THIS
DECISION BUT I JUST CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY YOU
AND YOUR PARTY SEEM TO BE TURNING YOUR BACKS ON
THE VERY SAME PEOPLE WHO STUCK BY YOU IN THE
DARK DAYS OF THE EIGHTIES.THE FAMILIES OF THE
DEAD AT HILLSBOROUGH DESERVE TO BE TOLD THE
TRUTH ABOUT HOW THEIR LOVED ONES DIED,JUST AS
ANYBODY SHOULD,BUT IN THIS DECISION YOU HAVE
ONCE AGAIN DENIED THEM THIS,JUST AS THE LAST
GOVERMENT DID. IT DID NOT SURPRISE ME WHEN THE
TORIES TURNED DOWN A NEW INQUIRY BUT YOU HAVE
SURPRISED ME AND YOU HAVE DISSAPOINTED ME IN
THIS DECISION.
I URGE YOU TO RECONSIDER THIS
DECISION AS I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT YOU ARE THE
PARTY OF TRUTH AND HONESTY,THIS IS WHY YOU HAVE
HAD MY VOTE IN THE PAST. I ALWAYS BELIEVED YOU
WERE THE PARTY OF DECENCY AND FAIRNESS BUT
SURELY YOU WILL AGREE THAT IT DOES NOT SEEM FAIR
THAT THE PEOPLE WHO LOST LOVED ONES STILL DONT
KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW THEIR LOVED ONES DIED
WHILE THE MAN WHO WAS PUT IN CHARGE OF THE
SAFETY OF THESE PEOPLE NOT ONLY TOLD LIES TO TRY
AND PUT THE BLAME ON INNOCENT PEOPLE BUT IS ALSO
RETIRED ON A FULL PENSION.
IS THAT JUSTICE MR. STRAW ?

Westminster
London
SW1A 2PW 2 March 1998
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Hillsborough Disaster
I realise that, in all probability, you will not personally see this letter, but I would
really appreciate it if you would read it and, with that in mind, will keep it as
concise as possible.
May I start by saying that I am sorry that my letter is not more articulate - I'm
sure you have had much correspondence on this subject from people who are far
more eloquent and know much more about the subject.
However, having watched a BBC1 news report at approximately 5 .3 0 am on
Sunday 1 March 1998, I felt I just had to write to you (something I have never
felt moved to do before).
It was an interview with two relatives of victims of the Hillsborough Disaster.
I am not a football fan (nor a mother) but I can obviously remember the horrific
scenes all those years ago. I do watch the news and current affairs programmes
and have seen further coverage about the disaster over the years, including your
recent decision about not re-opening the enquiry (apologies if that terminology is
incorrect).
However, nothing has moved me as much as listening to these two ladies, who
were so dignified in their grief. (Unfortunately, I did not see the start of the
coverage but the older lady was talking about her son - I am not sure of the
relationship of the younger lady).
Watching the older lady really struck a chord with me as she reminded me so
much of my mother who was devastated by the sudden death, from a heroin
overdose, of my cousin about eighteen months ago. The similarity between
them was remarkable - their hands are never still, their faces etched with
incredible sadness and disbelief over what has happened.
From the coverage I have seen, there are so many anomalies surrounding so
many facts that I find it unbelievable that there is to be no further invs
The older lady said that you had admitted that there had been gross negligence. j
If that is an accurate quote, how can you not want to attribute that negligence
to someone? Are you not obliged to? 16 MAH 1998

The knock-on effect of the loss of her son is enormous and on-going. She is
scared to let her other son out of her sight in case anything happens to him. She
has recently found out that many of the victims suffered - having previously
been told that they had not. Imagine how this must torment her (and others)
who may previously have had some small comfort from believing that many of
the deaths had been very quick and that there had been little suffering.
She said that she does not trust the police. Whilst we all know that there are
some members of the police force (as in all walks of life) who indeed cannot be
trusted, thankfully most ordinary people believe that these are in the minority. If
the maintenance of law and order is as important to the Labour Party as you say
it is, it is vital that the public do trust the police. Incidents such as this, where
that trust is called into question, can do nothing but harm.
The loss of a child in such circumstances is the most traumatic thing a parent
could ever have to face. After the initial anguish, you would want answers and
reasons. The feeling that you have then been let down (indeed, some would say
betrayed) by the very people who have the power to help and support you and to
answer your questions must make the situation even more unbearable.
There are a great many injustices in the world and with the majority, it is not
possible for one person to make a difference. However, in this case, I believe
that it is possible for you to make a difference. I would ask you to ask the BBC
for a tape of this programme. I cannot believe that, having watched it, your
conscience, as a parent if not as an MP, would allow you not to reconsider your
recent decision.
The people who died deserve justice and their families and friends deserve
whatever peace of mind that justice can bring them.
With many thanks for taking the time to read my letter and in the certain
knowledge that I sadly cannot, but you certainly could, make a difference to the
lives of all the people affected by this tragedy.
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Mr Jack Straw M,P,
Home Secretary
House of Commons
LONDON OPPU REGISTRY
Dear Mr Straw
Re Hillsborough Inquiry.
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R E C E IV Id
I have seen and reseen the latest documentary on the above disaster. Whilst
the general public cannot be sure of being aware of all the relevant facts in
the matter I am sure you must be aware of the feeling of unease that an
injustice could be being done and, regrettably to myself and many others, our
own Government is now being seen as yet another group of people assisting
in providing a cover up for the apparently obvious failures of police on that
tragic day. We were not particularly surprised at the previous Government’s
apparent collusion but we are certainly surprised to see you seemingly
following their line.
I am very much aware that Public Inquiries are at times very expensive and
this one, presumably, would be no exception. However, bearing in mind the
scale of public opinion and the grave doubts expressed by a large cross
section of the public, I find it difficult to reconcile your decision to NOT hold
a Public Inquiry. I would certainly like to believe that the Inquiry costs and
potential damages costs depending on the Inquiry’s verdict played no part in
a decision to not hold the Inquiry.
I firmly believe that you owe the electorate in general and the relatives of the
Hillsborough victims in particular a detailed reasoning of your decision.
I think Labour supporters, apart from anyone else, have the right to see their
Party in Government being seen to be fair and honest. We had too many

years of the previous Government not being so but we believed, rightly or
wrongly, that our new Labour Government would be responsive to the
feelings of the public, honest, open and above board. The result may or may
not change after an inquiry but at least we would be aware that all evidence
had been considered and made available to everyone.
I have no connection with any Hillsborough victims but believe I am echoing
the views of very many reasonable people.
I sincerely hope that you are able to review and reconsider you previous
decision.
Yours Sincerely
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Mr J Straw MP
House of Commons
London
Dear Sir
27 February 1998
I attended the FA Cup meSCch between Liverpool and Notts Forest
nine years ago. I arrived at the ground half an hour before kick
off. I passed many police officers outside the ground and had to
queue for less than a minute to get through the turnstiles. I
walked unhindered to my chosen section of the terraces, where I
stood without being squashed. This was a football match organised
as it should have been.
Why, why, why then did Hillsborough happen? The above match was,
of course, the rearranged fixture at Old Trafford, not
Hillsborough, where I arrived half an hour before kick off to be
greeted by unbelievable scenes I have never witnessed before - I
was 39 at the time - in all my years of attending football
matches. TWO policemen on horseback trying to control thousands
of fans who had travelled many miles to watch their teams play an
important game and were - shall we say, anxious - to get into the
ground.
Did the people who organised the game not realise that you can't
get so many thousands of fans through so few turnstiles in so
little time? IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE. Could the trained police
officers not see how the situation was developing long before
3.00pm?
Why do pol ice attend football matches?
Continued

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Mr J Straw MP
House of Commons
27 February 1998
I thought their main reason for being there was crowd control,
that's their job. If I didn't do my job properly and it caused
such a disaster, I would expect to be punished and if the disaster
was caused by lack of organisation and bad judgement then those
responsible should be punished. How can anyone say it was no
one's fault? The people who decided to use Hillsborough. The
people who organised crowd control outside the ground and mainly
the person who allowed thousands of anxious fans to flood into an
already packed area - SHOULD BE PUNISHED. Accidents don't just
happen, they are caused.
I don't want a reply from some assistant or secretary. If you
can't reply yourself, in your own words then I'll know you haven't
got a mind of your own.
Yours faithfully
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I am w ritindl^^m cM ^ress my grave concerns about the
governments decision not to allow AfrfSsnand open inquiry into the Hillsborough
disaster.
I am writing as someone who has no connection with the
disaster or the support group, but as a Labour voter who teels very strongly that Lord
Smith's report must be set aside to allow for a new inquiry which involves fully all
parties.
Why is always the question,* for justice, for fairness, for equality,
for openess, all these values and perspectives are things that this government holds
dearly and was I believe elected on.
Why then did the recent interview and discussion on ITV
following the second showing of "Hillsborough" leave me knowing there is so much
more. Of all the issues that were discussed that night, a significant fact to me was that
the chief constable of South Yorkshire had seen Lord Smith's report well before Mr.
Hicks and therefore had very detailed knowledge to argue with.
Yet what is important is that Mr. Hicks and the families have
already identified significant factors in the report that they believe to be untrue /
inaccurate, despite the fact that they had not been allowed as much time to prepare.
Why were the families not given copies of the report at same time as the chief
constable?
If matters are open and fully involve all parties this would not
have happened. It therefore appears to me that Lord Smith's report has to be set aside
as it clearly has not allowed for full involvement and leaves significant factors /
questions that are still to be highlighted by the Hillsborough Family Support Group.
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Jack Straw MP
Home Secretary
House of Commons
Westminster SW1A OAA
Dear Mr Straw
’ 18th February 1998
With reference to the article about the Hillsborough disaster on Page 9 of today’s
Guardian2, will you be taking steps to identify the Woman Police Sergeant who signed as
having witnessed, on each page of the statement he wrote for West Midlands Police, the
signature of Dr Ed Walker, despite his never having seen her, and, if the circumstances are
as reported, will you institute proceedings against her for Peijury, or whatever other
offence she may have committed?
If you really intend to achieve the laudable aim of ensuring the highest standards of
behaviour in the Police as well as local government, it ought never be too late to follow up
allegations of misconduct, still less of criminal behaviour, especially where there is both
documentary evidence and verbal testimony.
Yours sincerely
Michael E Marmn - 1 Oakland Close - Livenpool 121 BPS - Tel:0151 922 117$
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DEAR MR STRAW,
I HOPE THAT YOU NEVER HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE ANGUISH OF SEEING
YOUR FAMILY DIE AS THE DIRECT CONSEQUENCES OF OTHER PEOPLES
NEGLIGENCE OR YOUR FRIENDS TRAPPED UNDER DEAD BODIES UNABLE TO FREE
THEMSELVES, LEFT TO DIE BY THOSE W H O ARE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT THEM.
PERHAPS IF YOU HAD YOU W OULD REALISE THE HORROR OF YOUR DECISION
NOT TO OPEN ANOTHER ENQUIRY INTO THE HILLSBOROUGH DISASTER.
THERE IS LITTLE POINT ME GOING OVER THE FACTS OR MY REASONS FOR
ANOTHER ENQUIRY, I AM SURE YOU ARE WELL AWARE OF ALL THE FACTS AN D
HAVE CHOSEN IN YOUR WISDOM TO IGNORE THEM.
THEREFORE I FEEL THE "BLOOD OF THOSE W H O DIED IS N O W ON YOUR
HANDS"
YOURS SINCERELY,

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Jack Straw
House O f Commons
LONDON
SW1A OAA.
Dear Mr Straw
I am writing to ask for Justice for those killed and for the families of those killed at
Hillsborough.
I was one o f the people who voted Labour in the belief that it would end what I
perceived to be the sleaze and corruption and underhand dealings of those in power
at the time of the last general election.
Please do the right thing.
Yours sincerely
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24 FEB 1998
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Dear Mr. Straw,
17th February, 1998.
I am writing in concern with your decision relating to the Hillsborough disaster of
April 15th, 1989.
The evidence that has been presented, proves beyond any reasonable doubt that the
incident was not an accident. It is time, now, for the negligence of the police force and
energency services to be publicly recognised.
The disaster destroyed not only the families of the ninety six fatalities, that day had a
much wider effect on many more people. I believe that since that fateful day, the city
of Liverpool, reknowned for its humour and friendly disposition, has carried a more
sombre air. April 15th, 1989, killed part of a city and a people, and what was lost
cannot be replaced.
So, I implore that when you make your decision, you see that :. These
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people have lost so much, please give them something back. Justice.
Yours sincerely,
OPPU REGISTRY

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I am writting to you with the regards to t l ^ ^ ^ l j l ^ b o r o ^ h situation.
I was horrified to learn through the press that'^^irwill pobably say that
no further action should be taken, I was amazed by this statement and I
hope that the press have got it wrong. There are so many things about this
whole situation which have since come to light that f feel should be looked into.
I believe that the Tory goverment brushed a lot under the carpet and I can
see how it would look bad for the Police to be found at least negligent but
surley justice must be done if not for the 96 dead at least for the living.
I look forward the hearing that you have made the correct decision and not
bowed to any pressure from the police.
Yours faithfully,

Jack Straw MP
The Home Office
50 Queen Annes Gate
London SW1 9AT.
20th February 1998.
Dear Mr Straw,
RE : HILLSBOROUGH.
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I am writing to you to express my bitter disappointment at the decision by Lord
Justice Stuart-Smith not to conduct a fresh inquiry into the avoidable tragedy at
Hillsborough in 1989.
I speak as a long standing fan of Liverpool F.C who spent much of his formative
years standing on the terraces at Anfield. As with most true football fans I built up a
tremendous empathy with the club over this time and this naturally extended to my
fellow supporters. Such feelings compounded my deep shock at what happened on
15th April 1989, and I have continually been haunted by what happened on that day.
You go to a football match with feelings of expectation, eagerness and above all fun.
Indeed for those who attended the match that day these feelings must have been
intensified by the importance of the match. It is utterly beyond my comprehension
how such a day could end in such horror. You don't go to a football match and be
killed through no fault of your own. That is not the way things happen, and it could
never be described as" accidental"
The anguish of the relatives of those who were killed at Hillsborough has not
lesened over the intervening years. The awfulness of losing a loved one in such
circumstances has been successively compounded first by the lies propagated by
the Police and Media immediately after the event, and then by the relentless cover
up to try and protect those ultimately responsible for the deaths of 96 people.
Despite many of the families expected the verdict recorded last Wednesday, it must
have stiii delivered a reeiing biow. The verdict came despite new implicit evidence
and the very real sense of injustice this case invokes.
I ask you to do all you can in support of the Hillsborough Families, so as they can
one day obtain JUSTICE.
Yours sincerely
c.c Keith Hill M.P

Jack Straw
House of C
London. I
I am writing to you after hearing the news that there is not going to be a new inquiry into
the Hillsborough Disaster. There are several points I would like to make:
1. The original Taylor Report (which I have personally read) put the majority of the
blame for the disaster on the South Yorkshire police and in particular Duckinfield. Yet
no action was taken against them.
2. You have stated today that the new report has also put the blame on the South
Yorkshire Police and have actually spoken of the "disgraceful lie” that Duckinfield told.
Yet no action has been taken.
3. Tonight, live on TV, Richard Wells also said that the South Yorkshire Police and
Duckinfield in particular had to bear (in his words) the lion’s share of the blame. Yet no
action has been taken.
4. It seems to me that when a member of the general public is to blame for
something, or when a member of the general public deliberately lies to protect his own
skin when some disaster occurs, then he or she is prosecuted yet it seems that a
member of the police force and indeed that force itself can do whatever they like and get
away with it.
5. The families of the victims of Hillsborough and Liverpool supporters in general
have had to endure years of being held responsible by the public at large. It took a
television play to give people the true facts.
6. If the same attitude had been taken after World War II then no war criminals would
have been brought to justice, as the line could have been taken of it’s in the past, they
did what they had to do, they made mistakes but they couldn’t help it.
In closing I just want to say that I feel totally let down by your party and you, I voted
Labour at the last election with the feeling that it would lead to a new society, a society
which held justice in the highest regard, - I am totally disillusioned. I have no faith in the
police force - they do not seem to be able to be held responsible for anything and I have
no faith in New Labour. I will certainly change my vote at the next election along with
thousands of others. I urge you to take heed of ordinary people and do not forget who put
you where you are.
Yours sincerely,

19.2.98
Rt. Hon. Jack Straw MR
House of Commons
LONDON.
Dear Mr. Straw,
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Your decision yesterday regarding the HILLSBOROUGH DISASTER nine years ago is one
with which I cannot agree with.
There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that the policing of the event on the day of the
tragedy was inadequate. I used to be a constable 40 years ago and thus have some
understanding of such events and their policing.
The video evidence overlooked or denied represents a blatant ignoring of evidence at the time
which requires correction through a further inquiry.
The cut-off time of 3.15pm by the Coroner when more could have been saved indicates a
blindness on his part which must be dereliction of duty.
I write as a private voter. I have no interest in football; in fact the last match I went to was on
26.12.43.1 have only been to Sheffield once in my life. I have no known relative or friend
connected in any way with those who died on that day.
In other words, my perception of the way the situation was dealt with on the day and
subsequent inquiry into the cause of the deaths leaves me with inadequate confidence in
truthfulness and abilities of the authorities in these matters. Confidence in Administration is
diminished, and, simply again reveals itself as inadequate.___

18 February 1998
Jade Straw
Home Secretary
House o f Commons
Westminster
London
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Dear M r. Straw,
You had the chance to ease the pain and suffering o f the Hillsborough families. You also had the
chance to ease the suffering o f every football fen in the country by proxy. Few people could imagine what Kegworth,
the Herald of Free Enterprise, the Locherbie bombing or Piper Alpha must have been like but most people in this
country have been in an overcrowding situation at some time or other. That's why this disaster touched a sensitive
nerve in the people of Britain. That’s why we have all taken an interest in this appalling tragedy. Yet you choose to
do nothing.
I can only speculate on your reasons Mr. Straw but you have emerged from this with zero credit. Worse, you have
undermined the faith British people have injustice. To spell it out for you Mr. Straw as you are blatantly unfamiliar
with the word. Just a. giving proper consideration to the claims of all concerned; right in amount etc., deserve.
Justice n. just treatment, fairness; legal proceedings; magistrate; judge. May I also point out, Mr. Straw, that Bloody
Sunday has been apologised for by the British Government. This after twenty five years. Ninety six people died as a
result o f Hillsborough, not thirteen as in Bloody Sunday, ninety six! We demand justice (see description above) Mr.
Straw. We will get it, with or without you. Unless we get it fro m you, I will spit every time I hear your name and
turn my back every time I see you.
On your death bed Mr. Straw, you will be called to account for all your actions. At that time, you w ill feel the pain of
those you choose to damn mid victimise further. Sleep well M r. Straw; and may your victims have mercy on you.
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Jack Straw
Subject: Hillsborough
Sir,
OPPU REGISTRY
2 4 FEB 1998
RECEIVED
I am writing to express my disgust at your decision yesterday to
accept the findings of the original inquest into the Hillsborough tragedy.
Like many other people, I find it unbelievable that the two reports
could blame the police, emergency services, the Sheffield club, the local
council and yet nothing has been done to bring the people responsible for
the death of 96 people to justice.
I was there that day and saw full well what happened. The collapse
of police control over the situation, police actually pushing supporters
back into the crowd initially, the authorities mostly standing in shock as
supporters ripped down advertising hoardings to ferry the bodies to the
emergency services outside, who did not even bother to come into the
stadium to help in ambulances or on foot, the coverup which started
immediately from all the authorities concerned hinting that the supporters
were to blame, leading to the disgraceful story in the Sun, none of which
has ever been apologised for or retracted, causing further harm and
distress to the people involved. No whitewash will ever hide the truth.
The police even lied, amended documents. This is over and above the
negligence by all parties, for which there have been no criminal
prosecutions. Why? If it were your son, how would you feel? Both reports
have condemned the authorities concerned, and yet it is apparently still
"accidental death" according to the inquest.
I realise this letter will have little impact on a man who puts
political expediency before family, but I feel so passionately about this
issue, I feel I have to do something. I will continue to support the
Hillsborough families, but can no longer support the current government or
Labour Party. I am sure there are many others who feel as I do.

Jack Straw MP
Home Secretary,
House of Commons,
Westminster,
London.
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18th February, 1998.
I grew up just inside N. Wales with an adoptechfTmily from Liverpool. From this background I
developed a keen interest in supporting Liverpool FC and became very active within the Labour
Party. I campaigned for the Labour Party throughout the 1970's and 1980's and became a
Constituency Party Secretary and later a Clwyd County Councillor.
Above all I supported Labour since, without reading any great political thesis, I believed simply
that the Labour Party was the Party most keenly interested in fairness and social justice.
Although my activism in politics declined as my business demands increased my sense of
frustration with the previous government, and my desire to see it replaced by a Labour
Government, always remained strong. Above all I hoped that a new government, a Labour
Government, would set about righting the injustices that had been inflicted upon so many groups
and individuals by the Tory regime over so many years.
Fortunately, for myself, I missed the tragic game at Hillsborough. I have nevertheless remained
touched by the tragedy and have felt very concerned about the original inquiry. The arbitrary
decision of the Coroner in disregarding events after a set time, the discrepancies within police
evidence not to mention their absolute failure to admit liability and their decision not to raise any
disciplinary action is beyond my comprehension. For goodness sake Ninety-six people died*
As a manager of a chemical company safety is of paramount importance to employees and me.
Regrettably, I have had cause on occasion to discipline a few employees when they have failed
in their duty or have acted negligently and risked a breach of safety standards. I have even had
to dismiss one chap. However, their actions have never got close to injuring anyone let alone
result in multiple deaths. The potential to cause injury was sufficient to justify action. What on
earth can be said to justify such an absolute abdication of responsibility by the Police and
Emergency Services in the case of Hillsborough?
Surely, after such a tragic event of this magnitude we have a right to get to the real truth and
ensure that every possible aspect surrounding the events are thoroughly dealt with to everyone's
satisfaction. Justice cannot be served, and will not be seen to be served, whilst there are so
many unanswered questions. I am absolutely ashamed of the decision announced by you
today.

It is only a token gesture on my part, but for what it is worth I absolutely promise that I shall
never ever again vote or support your party. You have today so clearly failed to act on this
miscarriage of justice. There appears to be little or nothing between you and your predecessors.
I'm sure you will, with the arrogance of power and given the size of your majority, be tempted to
dismiss such letters as mine. You would do well to remember that such contempt would
ultimately and absolutely end your Government's term of office just as surely as it did with that
personification of intolerance and arrogance herself, Margaret Thatcher.
As one who spent a significant part of my life supporting Labour and encouraging others to do
the same - 1 can only say I feel utterly and totally betrayed.
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19th February 1998
This letter is probably the most difficult one I have ever had L
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I am writing with reference to the events yesterday, and your subsequent decision not to launch a new
inquiry into the Hillsborough Disaster in April 1989.
You will not be surprised to learn, that I am a Liverpool season ticket holder, and was present at the
Hillsborough disaster on that fateful day. By pure chance, I was able to exchange my standing ticket
for a seating ticket only hours before the game. However, this does not detract from the horror I bore
witness to.
To say I am apalled at your decision, would be an understatement. Before last years election, you
made it very dear to everyone, that you were fully behind a complete investigation. Now firmly sitting
in Government, its simply amazing to see both yours and Labour’s attitude “cool” completely.
I was proud to vote Labour at the last election, to finally be rid of the “corrupt-ridden” previous
Government, was a blessing in more ways than one. I firmly believed, wrongly as it now turns out, that
we had a Government committed to finding the truth about the Disaster.
Before the so called new inquiry began, I had serious misgivings about the new Judge taking over the
investigation. Judge Stuart-Smith’s outrageous comments towards the family’ s: “being late, like the
Liverpool supporters” , hardly instilled confidence in anyone. Rightly, as it turned out.
However, I find it unbelievable, that no new inquiry is to be launched despite:
(a) Vital evidence & witnesses were withheld from the original inquest...So how on earth can the
original inquest be “accurate”?
(b) Everyone knowing the Police lied about events that happened.
(c) Video tapes being “stolen” by persons unknown...(Yet only the Police having anything to gain
by them going “missing”. )
(d) Missing tapes not being “significant”....how do you know, if you haven’t seen them?!
(e) The Police being held accountable for the disaster....But no one being prosecuted?!
( f ) The original Inquest having a cut off point of 3.15pm...even though people were still capable of
being saved after this point.

(g) The Emergency Services being praised What for? their delay is well documented, including
sitting outside the ground in lines of vehicles!
(h) Evidence provided of Police tampering with evidence....How can this NOT effect an inquest?!
These are just some of the points that need answers to, it cannot be brushed under the carpet.
The Police were guilty of gross negligence on a grand scale. You have a duty to the people of this
country, to find out the truth and in doing so, prosecute those responsible.
As you have failed to do this, I believe you should take the families advice and resign. However, I
doubt for one minute you will do so, but I hope you can live with your conscience.
As Trevor Hicks accurately said yesterday: “New Government, new whitewash.”
Yours faithfully

The Right Honorable J. Straw
The Home Secretary
The Home Office
Queen Ann Gate
London
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I was very disappointed to hear that there would be no new public inquiry into the Hillsborough
Disaster .While I did not have the opportunity to read a full list of your reasons the news that I heard
did not explain your actions.
I do not understand the reasons that the families wish to have the verdict overturned as this will not
bring the dead back . However it is now common belief that there was a concerted effort by figures
who are paid to uphold the Law to ensure that a distorted version of those sad events would be
presented to the cou rt. This theory must be proved or dashed or it will damage the rule of law in this
country.
The previous Conservative administration fell , in part , because of the perception that they were
unable and unwilling to protect the institutions of this country because of self interest . This is the
cancer that is eating at our belief that the police are there to protect us and that we can trust them to
do their job without b ias.
Yours sincerely,

Jack Straw,
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Home Offica
LONDON.
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On 19th February 1998, the Hillsborough issue was debated at a full meeting of Sefton Council,
1. Many
The Councillors expressed the unanimous view that a further Inquiry is required and resolved that
I should write to you, asking that further consideration be given to this issue.
The point was clearly made that the call for further consideration is not intended as a challenge to
the detailed findings of Lord Justice Stuart-Smith, nor as a criticism of your acceptance of his
Report. The Council’s view is that the need for a further Inquiry arises from the application of
democratic rather than judicial principles. Put simply, the communities of Merseyside are still
those communities. They know, and it has been acknowledged, that the initial Inquiry was
inadequate, and there is an awareness that a fuller explanation is available which could be secured
by a further Inquiry.
It is the Council’s view that, in such circumstances, government, be it local or central, has no
option but to use every endeavour to produce the fullest explanation available. We trust that you
people of Sefton, and Merseyside in general, believe they are entitled.
Yours faithfully,
Director of Legal and Administrative Services
Secretary of State for Home Affairs
The Home Office
50 Queen Anne’s Gate
LONDON
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Mr. J. Straw, Hon
House of Commons,
Westminster,
LONDON.
Dear Mr. Straw,
I write to register my disgust at your lack of courage in refusing to
re-open the Hillsborough inquiry.
When your son was charged with an offence recently you wanted him to be
treated fairly and justly, as he was, yet you have denied the same justice
or fairness to the families of the Hillsborough victims who are innocent
of any offence. How therefore can anyone have confidence in a Home
Secretary who clearly demonstrates such double standards. You are doing
the Labour Party no favours by clinging to your position and I call upon
you to do the honourable thing and resign.
This matter can be summed up in one word which is INJUSTICE and you, as
Home Secretary, ought to have put this dreadful wrong right. May I
remind you that you were elected to serve the people, not to protect the
Establishment.
When Lord Justice Stuart-Smith arrived in Liverpool he began by insulting
the families and clearly demonstrating that his mind was already made up
as to the cause of the tragedy. He should have been replaced immediately.
I am enclosing an article from last evening's Liverpool Echo which, if you
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This letter is in response to your decision yesterday not to order a fresh
enquiry into the Hillsborough disaster.
The decision, on the back of all the other whitewashes the families have
been subjected to, is, in my opinion, an abomination. It would appear that
people in authority, such as yourself, are the only people in the country that
believe the original accidental death verdict. Is it a case o f believing this Mr.
Straw or is it just the easy option?
Obviously the decision has been made, although the families have vowed
to fight on. I hope they win and receive the justice they deserve. In the light of
the latest cover up on this tragedy I would like answers to a number of
questions. Questions that I have not yet seen answered anywhere and I’m sure
I am not alone in wanting to know. I would appreciate your comments on 1)
why was the policing so different On this occasion from twelve months
previous when the same two teams played at the same ground at the same
stage of the same competition? I was at the game in 1988 and was asked by
police on numerous occasions to show my ticket as I approached the ground.
The purpose of this being, I presume, to prevent people without tickets getting
near the ground, 2} Why the ridiculous decision to open the gates at the
Lsppings Lane end of the ground when more suitable alternatives were
available? i) Why not put the kick off time back? An announcement to this
effect over the Public Address system would have been heard outside the
ground and the rush to gain admittance would have subsided, ii) As the
decision was made why was the tunnel into the central pen not closed off
before opening the main gates? 3) Why the 3.15 pm cut off time when
statements from witnesses and I believe, police officers prove people were still
alive well after this time? 4) Why was the fleet of ambulances not allowed
access to the ground? 5) Why have you admitted to the families that there had
been “gross negligence” and yet have failed to reach a decision consistent with
this statement? People need justice Mr Straw, not patronising with statements
such as “that does riot riieari we cannot learn lessons from Hillsborough" arid
“the entire country is united in sympathy for those who lost loved ones at

Hillsborough”. Comments such as-these serve little purpose only to prove that
you know the entire situation was avoidable and yet you are happy to go along
with a whitewash and effectively ‘fob off the bereaved families with an
accidental death verdict.
I was brought up in a home that was Labour through and through. I
have continued to vote Labour into my adult life and believed that New Labour
under Mr Blair was the only way forward for our country, a belief obviously
shared my millions o f other people at the last General Election. Decisions such
as this one do nothing to promote New Labour as a party for the people and
merely cause me and no doubt countless others to question our commitment to
the party. I must say I wholeheartedly agree, in this instance, with a statement
from & father who lost his son at Hillsborough ‘TSfew Labour, new cover up”
Yours sincerely,
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At ten years of age I was a fun loving young girl with not a
care in the world and only one passion, football. This changed on
the 15th of April 1989. On that day I travelled to Hillsborough
excited at the prospect of watching my first away match.
From the moment I reached Sheffield it was apparent that the
safety and security had not been well organised. The Police
officers could not even direct us to the right stand, sending us
to the other three stands first. The words "orderly queue" must
be unknown to the South Yorkshire Police force as we were pushed
and shoved into a cramped crowd.
I was lucky as I had a seat at the match, otherwise I may not
be here today writing this letter. It was apparent to me prior to
3:06pm that something was not right at the Leppings Lane end. It
was also apparent that many of the victims were still alive after
3:15pm. If a ten year old girl can notice this why can't the
police.
I stood there and watched the line of bodies grow longer and
longer. They were laid to rest on the touchline just infront of
m e . I can still see those people now, lying there on advertising
hoardings with their coats covering their faces. It is images
like these that haunt me to this day.
I cannot relate fully to the grief that the victim's families
feel, but I can relate to their anger today as their new inquiry
request is refused. You said on television today that you
"understand the disappointment of the families" and that you can
"understand their anger and frustration". If this is the case
then a new inquiry is the only sensible and logical solution, a
full inquiry showing all of the evidence.
This terrible disaster could have been prevented and should
never be allowed to happen again. The victim's families will
never be able to grieve properly until justice is seen to be
done. This did not happen today.

I was lucky I did not lose my life at Hillsborough, but I did
lose part of my childhood on that day. I'm now 19 years of age
but I can still remember every moment of that day, and I will
never forget. It does not get any easier, but justice may help
ease the pain.
If the Police believe that their actions were right then they
should not oppose another inquiry. New evidence has been exposed
proving gross negligence by the Police. Fresh evidence has been
presented to you in the form of a number of crucial video tapes
which the Police said did not exist and also in the statements
made by one of the doctor's who treated the dying victims.
Lord Justice Taylor concluded that failure of Police control
was the main reason for the disaster, yet disciplinary action
against two senior Police officers has been dropped.
The people of Liverpool will not give up until justice is done.
If there is any way that you can go back on today's decision then
I urge you to do so.
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DEAR MR. STRAW,
PLEASE NOTE MY ABSOLUTE DISGUST AT YOUR
DECISION NOT TO OPEN A NEW ENQUIRY INTO THE
HILLSBOROUGH DISASTER.
AS A LIFE LONG SUPPORTER OF THE LABOUR PARTY
I FINALLY HOPED FOR JUSTICE. I ASSUMED THAT OUR PARTY
WOULD DO WHATS RIGHT . NOT WHAT IS ABSOLUTLY LEGAL,
BUT RIGHT. ONE DAY THE TIME OF DEATH OF THOSE WHO DIED
WILL BE FINALLY CONFIRMED AND I WILL BE HERE TO REMIND
YOU THAT YOU MADE A MISTAKE.
THE PREVIOUS GOVERNMENT RUBBER STAMPED
THE SYSTEM NOW YOU ARE THE SYSTEM. MAKE A DICISION
WITH YOUR HEART NOT WHAT THE FACELESS BUREAUCRATS
TELL YOU IS LEGAL OR COST EFFECTIVE.
I WRITE TO YOU WITH NO AXE TO GRIND ,A
NOBODY IN FACT. HOWEVER MY CONSCIENCE WILL NOT
ALLOW ME TO DO NOTHING WHEN NINETY-SIX OF MY
NEIGHBOURS DIE AND I AM NOT ONE HUNDRED PERCENT SURE
THE RIGHT THING HAS BEEN DONE.
YOURS FAITHFULLY.

To Jack Straw
19/2/
Your statement to the House on the 18/2/98 leaves me, and the vast majority of this
country cold You have proved once more that this government elected by-the-populatioH has no
feelings for them or interest in their views. They, in particularly yourself, have again shown they can
not be trusted to defend their rights, or protect them in times of need.
Your election slogan “ Tough on crime, Tough on the causes of crime “ was misleading at the best, a
lie at the worst. You forgot to inform the Nation that this only stood if the perpetrators of the crime
were not the Police, and if the victims of the crime were not football supports.
You are allowing the cover up into the deaths of 96 football supports to continue, you are actively
ignoring the responsibilities that go with your post, WHY ? Would you be doing this if the supporters
had been from Blackburn, the sons and daughters of the people that vote for you ? I doubt it because
you have proved yourself a coward. Don’t misinterpret the above statement, I would not wish what we
went through on that day on anyone, but just think what action you would have taken if the outcomes
effected you more directly,
Jack, the Labour dream of the last 19 yeans is over, the Labour Party is dead, you belong to a
government that must leave people like Barbara Castle with total disgust. 18 years in the wilderness
has made you into a man unfit to govern, and unable to accept responsibility. You sit on a
Government that bullies it’s M.P.s to follow the party line, come what may, but you refuse to take
action against people that you accept were responsible for the deaths of % people, and you state had
shown gross negligence in their duties. I repeat you are a coward and unfit to hold any post that has
any responsibility attached to it.
You should, and must, resign immediately. There is no other line of action for you to take. The fight
to find justice will continue, the % will not be forgotten, the cover up will revealed, and those
responsible, which now includes you, brought in front of the courts.
RESIGN NOW. ^

Rt. Hon. Jack Straw MP.
House of Commons
London
SW1A0AA
Dear Mr Straw,
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I am writing to you with regard to your decision not t<
the events at the Hillsborough football ground
supporters were killed.
19th February 1998
quiry into
when 96 Liverpool
I cannot do or say much that would even make you consider changing your mind
as I am just an ordinary person, much like those who perished on that terrible day.
I would however like to let you know that my wife and I have both cancelled our
membership of the Labour party (we have both always voted for your party). If you
are happy to go along with this appalling travesty of justice we want nothing more
to do with you or the Labour party.
Yours sincerely,
G \S T W

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19th February, 1989
The Rt. Hon. Jack Straw, M.P.,
The House o: of Commons
Westminster.
Dear Home Secretary,
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Re: Your statement to the House of Commons on 18/2/98 concerning
Hillsborough
I wish to express my deep concern at your failure to instigate a new enquiry into the
Hillsborough tragedy. Your intransigence seems to fly in the face of new evidence
The new evidence, additional witnesses and the investigation carried out by the World
in Action programme, raise serious concerns about the conduct of senior police
Why is it acceptable form police officers to conveniently ’lose’ the videotape made
from the crucial camera (No.5, 1 think), on that day? Why is it that time and time
again, police officers are caught lying in court, under oath, and are never prosecuted?
cover up over
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I await your reply with interest.
Yours faith fiillv

c Mrs A udrey W ise, MP
The Rt Hon Jack Straw MP
Home Secretary
House of Commons
London SW1A OAA
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I feel I must write to you in the strongest possible way to register my
devastation and disgust about your decision not to grant a further
enquiry to the Hillsborough Families.
My son was at Hillsborough on 15 April 1989 and fortunately for him and
me he was one of the lucky ones who came home. My heart goes out to the
families who were not so fortunate.
I think you have taken a very narrow view indeed of the whole tragedy and
you owed it to the families to grant them another enquiry. As regards
the inquest verdict, how could there be a verdict of ‘accidental death’,
when Lord Justice Taylor himself blamed the police.
I voted Labour on 1 May last year, partly in the hope that something
positive would be done for these families and partly to do away with the
sickening spectacle of field sports. To say that I feel let down is to
put it mildly - at this moment in time I do not feel I could ever vote
for you again (and this from a family of formerly committed socialists)!
I wish the Hillsborough families the best of good fortune in their fight
for justice.
I have sent a copy of this letter to my MP, Audrey Wise.
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Dear Mr Straw
If my reasons for joining the labour party could be condensed into one word. That word would be
JUSTICE.
Eddisbury CLP
24th February 1998
I am very saddened by the fact that your definition of this word appears to be very different from my
own. I can not comprehend how you were able to stand before parliament last Wednesday and accept
that the South Yorkshire Police force was guilty of gross negligence on 15th April 1989 at Hillsborough
and yet in the eyes of the law what happened that day was an accident for which no one is to be
brought to account.
I believe you used the phrase ‘Duckenfields Disgraceful Lie.’ What type of JUSTICE permits a person
;fv* to retire on health grounds (with a pension and cash pay out) to avoid disciplinary action that would
embarrass the persons permitting the retirement? Would a member of any other profession be able to
retire on health grounds to avoid JUSTIC E.
I gave a statement to members of W est Midlands Police for the subsequent inquiry. These officers only
appeared to be interested in how much I had drunk that day (one pint) and did I have a ticket (Yes).
You acknowledge that statements were altered-yet you believe that this was not material enough to
affect the course of JUSTICE.
If you contend that the system has failed the 96 and that is the end of the matter then I believe it is
you who have failed the 96 and the party I thought believed in JUSTICE. Now the Labour Party is in
government you are the system.
If you believe in JUSTIC E I believe you should order a new Inquiry. Its remit should be to look at
what happened not just at events up to just after 3 o’clock but to include the whole of that day, the
subsequent behaviour of the South Yorkshire Police and the conduct of the West Midlands Police
during the first Inquiry.
Alternatively I have to consider do I want to remain a member of a party whose Home Secretaries
belief in JUSTIC E is so far apart from my own.
Your Sincerely

Mr Jack Straw MP
House of Commons
Westminster
London
19/2/98
Dear Mr Straw
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As Home Secretary I appreciate the difficult tasks you have on your plate, but I
cannot understand why you would not open a new enquiry for the victims of the
Hillsborough disaster It’s seems in this country that the guilty who hold authority
always get away it, weather it is the Police in charge of Guildford four or the Carl
Bridgewater case, they get away time after time scott free.
I have been attending football matches for the last twenty years, I know there has
been a history of trouble at our games but the attitude of the Police leading up to
Hillsborough was always a party to this. Now with the likes of Ken Bates robbing the
true football fans and giving his seat’s to city slickers with more money, it’s always
the innocent that get hurt.
The South Yorkshire Police mucked up badly that day and everyone knows that,
there are many ways they could have prevented this tragedy and the cover up by a
new Government is just as bad as the people who led these fans to their deaths.
Please don’t let football fans down, please re-open the file.
Yours Faithfully
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Dear Mr Straw,
19/2/98
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My name is I am aged
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what you could call part of the future generation. I am horrified at
your so called "decision" about the Hillsborough disaster. You
labelingit an "Accident", I feel it was most visible that it was not an
"Accident". New evidence showed this, With the Police and Ambulance's
at fault.
There seems to be a very big cover up. British justice is showing its
incompotence. Maybe you were trying to cover up some kind of
embarrassment? Well how ironic, you have accomplished in embarrasment to
yourself, British justice and the government only.
I hope you may sleep at night. You are not playing a game, this is real
life, real people. Your decision's affect peoples lifes. There future.
My vote, for the future of the Labour party counts. This big mistake is
just one reason why I will never vote for the labour party. That is
your future. To me, promises made have not happend,
I will be voteing in just over a year. Good luck. You will need it.
Yours Faithfully,
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Re: The Hillsborough Football Disaster
20 February 1998
I write to draw your attention to the Motion passed last night by the members of Ab-
ercromby Ward of Riverside Constituency (Liverpool - Louise Ellman MP):
This Ward regrets the decision of the Home Secretary in refusing to order a fresh inquiry
and/or inquest into the Hillsborough Disaster in the light of new evidence which clearly indicates
that the correct findings were not reached at the original enquiry and inquest and urges
him to reconsider that decision in view of his own admission that the procedure is faulty and
will be reformed.
Proposer: Christine Sabino
Seconded: Kevin McIntyre
Passed unanimously.
cc Tony Blair, no. 10 Downing Street.
Louise Ellman MP, Liverpool Riverside Constituency
Secretary of Liverpool Riverside Constituency
Frank Prendergast, Liverpool City Council
Hillsborough Famillies Association
Christine Sabino
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The Right Honourable Jack Straw
Home Secretary
The House of Commons
Westminster
London
Dear Mr Straw
Coventry University
Priory Street Coventry CVI 5FB
Telephone 01203 631313
School of The Built Environment
Direct Line 01203 838485
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Fe&ruary 20 1998
I am writing to express my disappointment at your recent decision not to order a
new public inquiry into the disaster at Hillsborough. As both a survivor from that
fateful tragedy and a sociologist specialising in the study of disasters and their
management, I know that mistakes were made on that day and since which have
not been fully investigated and accounted for. More worrying still, justice and
fairness have become additional victims of this disaster as a result of both the
inadequate systems of inquiry in this country and the determination and ability of
senior police officers to shield themselves behind the very institutions and
procedures expected to represent justice.
I understand that a working party was set up in 1990 to consider the role of
coroners’ inquests and public inquiries in recognition of the inadequacies that have
beset the process of dealing with disasters in this country. I would be interested to
know the outcome of the working party and would be grateful if you could send me
more information about the work that is subsequently being done to improve the
processes of investigation. This includes the status of the discussions about the
introduction of new legislation in the area of corporate manslaughter. As you
yourself have acknowledged, Hillsborough and other disasters have highlighted
serious inadequacies in the role and conduct of coroners’ courts
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‘training’ of their personnel. Could you tell me what research and action is being
undertaken in this area and what plans there are to improve this service?
As you will appreciate, we are approaching the tenth anniversaries of a number of
disasters that have occurred in Britain, all of which are likely to be marked by public
interest and questions about the lessons that have been learned. While there have
been many positive changes, the record highlights other similarities with
Hillsborough in terms of the continuing sense of injustice and unaccountability of
those individuals and companies chiefly responsible for disasters. I am presenting
papers on this theme at various international conferences this year and would very
much like to be able to say that this government is actively working on improving
the processes of investigation, accountablity and action in response to disasters
While my disappointment about Hillsborough remains, therefore, I hope I m ay be
able to be more hopeful about the procedures you are putting in place for dealing
with future disasters.
I look forward to hearing from you.
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Westminster,
London. 23 February, 1998.
Dear Mr Straw,
As the present Home Secretary you have the power to order a new inquest into
the deaths of the 96 Hillsborough victims. I am deeply disappointed that you did not
see fit to exercise that power and instead chose to hide behind the comments made by
Lord Justice Stewart-Smith.
By taking the action that you have, you have given every police officer in the
land the impression that they can commit perjury and you will support them. While I
recognise that you have some responsibility to the police, may I remind you that you
are responsible for Justice for all the people of this country and not just 'The
Establishment'. Justice needs to be seen to be done and a fresh Inquest is the only way
to do that. Lord Justice Taylor in his report clearly indicated that the chaos following
the tragedy was badly orchestrated by the police present and that many lives could
have been saved. A fresh look is needed, not to pinpoint blame, but for the whole
truth to be recognised and accepted.
Lord Justice Stewart-Smith openly showed prejudice against the dead and their
families five minutes after arriving in Liverpool, he should have been asked to stand
down at that time. His comments were an insult to all of the people of Merseyside.
By not ordering a new Inquest many people have lost confidence in the Justice
for which this Country was once proud. You are OUR Home Secretary, you are
supposed to see that WE THE PEOPLE can expect and get Justice in our own
Country.
I have no connection with any of the victims or their families, but I can only put
myself in their position and imagine what horrors they must go through not knowing
exactly what happened to their loved ones and what exactly caused their deaths. That
you should be party to a cover-up leaves me in despair. Your actions concerning your
own son's brush with the Law made me think that you were a man of character and
integrity with the courage to stand by your convictions that Justice must be done.
However, I now feel that you are not the man I thought and this is the root of my
deeply felt disappointment.
I hope that you will reconsider.

Copy to: Jack Straw
19th February, 1998
Mr. T. Blair,
House of Commons,
Westminster,
LONDON.
Dear Mr. Blair,
I
1 am writing to express my disgust at the decision not to re-open the enquiry into the
Hillsborough Disaster.
The fact that Senior Officers have not been brought to book, dismissed or even demoted
or disciplined for their lack o f actions and unprofessional conduct leads one to support
the change which is obviously needed in Police Complaints procedure, so that the situation
no longer prevails where the police investigate themselves. Legislation is urgently required
for independent police judicial enquiries so that justice can be seen to be done.
1 would like to guess that no Senior Police Officer has ever been prosecuted, resulting in a
custodial sentence, for misconduct in these kind of circumstances.
As motorists we are often reminded that ignorance is no defence, however, this does not
seem to apply to the police!
What is criminal is that Jack Straw and the Government had the opportunity to right this
terrible injustice but has chose not to and it seems this investigation was merely a token
gesture, a sham and nothing more.
What was that about a fair and just society?
Yours sincerely.
RECEIVED

Dear Mr. Straw
. o v w y x d
18th February 1998
At the age of ten years and two hundred and three days old, my life was changed forever. I left my
home in Liverpool for what was supposed to be one of the greatest days in my life. I was to attend my
first ever away match at a, football game.
When Liverpool football club played Nottingham Forest football club in the F.A Cup sem i-final in April
1989, I stepped over the divide between childhood and what lay beyond. I was not even old enough to
really know what it was like to live, yet I already knew what it was like to die.
The looks on the faces of the people beside me as they died, the noises that they made as they pleaded
for help, and the cries of torment of those who survived will stay with me for as long as I live. Not a
day goes by when I do not think back to that day, when I remember the tragedy which unfolded before
my eyes. Not a day goes by when I do not think of how lucky I am to be here, to still be able to
remember, in intricate detail, the events of that day. Not a day goes by when I do not pray to God and
ask him to comfort the families of those who did not return home on that day. I still wake up in the
night, fighting for breath, looking for my father and calling out his name. Who knows why we both
survived.
I am not unique, and I am not special. I am just amongst many thousands of people who were present
on that day. I am just one person who will never be the same again. My voice is only small, yet that
does not mean that I do not deserve to be heard. I do not seek revenge. I do not want to place blame
upon those involved, for they could not have prepared themselves for what was to come. I simply seek the
truth, for justice to prevail, and for the memories of those who died and those who were spared to be
laid to rest.
I am writing this letter to you, not for sympathy, not for recognition, and not for self gratification. I am
simply writing to show you that I am a person, and to tell you that the ninety - six people who lost their
lives at Hillsborough are not statistics. They were people, just like me, and just like you. They deserve
respect, they deserve the truth, and they deserve justice. Please give it to them*

Dear Sir'
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Park and I finished my day just afterone PM. On my way home
I joined the M63 at junction 3 to go towards Stockport and
immediately got involved in a traffic jam in traffic largely
consisting of dozens of coaches obviously loaded with football
supporter
At that time the M63 terminated at the Portwood
roundabout in Stockport which is where I would normally have
left it on my way to Romiley. This Roundabout was notorious
as a bottleneck but not normally on a Saturday afternoon .
Subsequently I became tired of the slow progress and
decided to leave the Motorway at an earlier junction and it was
about 1.30.PM when I pulled off at the Turn for Stockport
Centre and made my way via the town streets for home noting
that the jam reached up to the Portwood roundabout.
I was sufficiently curious at home to check thr
football fixtures to establish what game the coachec could be
going to and was amazed to discover that they must have been
going to Sheffield which meant that they still had to negotiate
congestion in the Woodley area and in Hollingworth
cosequently they had no chance of arriving in Sheffield at a
reasonable time for the game.
From the reports that I have seen the casualties at
Sheffield would have come mainly from the early comers who
had occupied the front rows on the terraces and the trouble was
caused by the latecomers trying to get position at the back.
It seems to me that the cause of the problem could
have been due to the transport arrangements in Liverpool with
coaches leaving atb too late an hour probably having to pull
supporters out of Pubs etc. Another factor could have been the
choice of route, it was a silly mistake to go through Stockport
on a Saturday afternoon. The bets way from Liverpool to
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Sheffield would have been to take the M62 and transfer to the
A1. Perhaps in future the local police could advise coach
operators of the best routes and departure times.
Yours Sincerely

The House of Commons
Westminster
London f gca
February 20, 1998'
R C iA L L Y
Dear Mr. Straw,
I am writing to express my extreme disappointment at your decision
not to act on the Hillsborough debacle. You have effectively condoned the
actions of negligent individuals, and the infrastructure, by exempting them
from any blame. I am appalled that you still found it appropriate for the Judge
in charge of the investigation to continue, after “ joking “ about the late arrival
of the Liverpool fans. Is it acceptable to call a coloured person a nigger, if it is
only in jest? I don’t believe it is. There are still many people in this country
who believe that Liverpool fans were to blame for the tragedy and this is an
affront to the men, women and children who died innocently on that day, not
to mention their families. I am sure you are well informed about what actually
happened that day so I need not reiterate the fact that the disaster happened
within two miles of a major hospital and only 14 of the 96 victims made it to
the hospital, that doctors have corroborated the claims that people were alive
for much longer than the Coroner’s claim of 3:15pm, etc, etc. I add the “etc”
because it strikes me that this is exactly how you view the overwhelming
evidence of what happened that day - as a mere inconvenience.
This whole affair is indicative of how you have betrayed the electorate
with your false promises and empty rhetoric. If you are under any illusions as
to what I am referring to, then can I list a few issues where I believe The
Labour Party has let us down, The Liverpool Dockers, NHS waiting lists,
Public transport, etc. I was naive enough to believe that Labour would make a
difference - that we were rid of the Tories and their ilk. I did not expect them
to get re-elected in a new guise. I find your hypocrisy appalling and reflective
of the new Government.
This has been written using all the self-control I can muster because I
know it could easily have been me at Hillsborough, and I feel so frustrated at
your apparent indifference that I really do not know what to do. I know what I
would like you to do - either get to the bottom of what really happened and
where the blame lies, or resign because you are not fit to hold office. Please
do not bother replying to this letter because I believe that actions speak
louder than words and unlike you and the Labour Party, I am not about to sell
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SENT BY FAX TO 0171-273-2190 Dated 19/02/1998
Dear Sirs
I was disgusted to hear on the news yesterday evening of the decision not to allow a fresh inquiry
into the Hillsborough tragedy.
The reason behind this decision is ludicrous and just not good enough, the facts of the tragedy
must be known. It is blatantly obvious that there has been a cover up and the Police have not
been honest or truthful.
Ninety six Liverpool Supporters were killed that dreadful day in April 1989 and for them and
their families JUSTICE must be seen to have been done.
The papers reported so many lies within days of the tragedy and they came to light as being lies
and now the truth behind the negligence of the Police must be told.
My boyfriend was there that day and was one of the one’s let through the gates a couple of
minutes before kick-off “I7 ve never known anything like it, you just couldn’t move1” were his
words, he had never and has not since been in a situation like it. He and his Mend realised there
was no other option than to leave and get out of the ground as the situation which was obviously
beyond control. There are stories so similar to this and a lot worse.
This j ust proves one of th e reasons why the Police have been negligent, the situation should have
been dealt with following the correct procedures and not allowing so many into one area of the
ground. The Police were wrong not to have realised the repercussions in not controlling the
ground as the position they uphold in the Community expects. Not one o f the South Yorkshire
Police have been disciplined over this tragedy. What do we do wait for another incident to occur
before anything is done ?
The video tape incident is blatantly obvious, the tape has been conveniently lost. This point must
be pursued and the truth told.
Nine years on and still the Government do nothing about it even after Jimmy McGovern’s film
which was constructed by those who listened to the families and the people at Hillsborough that
day.
Continued
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19/02/1998 14:34 PAGE 02
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I am one of so many in this Country who feels strongly about this matter. A tragedy which will
always be remembered everyday through the loss of family and friends and those mentally
scarred by witnessing the horrific events of that day. Many have had and still require
Counselling, the scale of this will never be laid to rest until an inquiry can be reopened and the
truth be heard.
I feel that the decision not to allow an inquiry was made by Jack Straw long before the
announcement was made yesterday.
This incident will never be laid to rest by those involved, ever if a full inquiry is not heard.
Yours faithfully
\

Dear Mr Straw,
Enclosed you will find a copy of a letter I have already sent you regarding your
decision not to reopen the Hillsborough enquiry. I. have as yet received no response and I
re-iterate my request for you to do so. Perhaps the point I did not make entirely clear in
my original letter was that there is no need for “ new evidence ” if the first verdict was
wrong, as it was. Copies of the letter have also been sent to every daily broadsheet, as well
as several tabloid papers. One last point: at the Liverpool / Everton game, on 23.2.98 a
chant for “ Justice for the 96 ” took place before and during the match and though I am no
statistician, I am sure you’d agree some 44,000 votes is quite a sizeable amount.
Yours Sincerely
P

I
18.2.98
Dear Mr Straw,
I write to you in a state of intense anger and consternation regarding your decision
not to re-open the enquiry into the Hillsborough disaster of 1989. It is shocking, and
indeed saddening for myself, as an ardent Labour supporter, to have to write to you in
such circumstances, nevertheless, I feel your announcement necessitates my response.
Your decision appears to have been based on the criteria that there is “ no new
evidence, ” into the disaster which claimed 96 lives and continues to affect an incalculable
number of others today. I beg to differ. I would not confess to being completely ctu fait
with the intricacies of our legal system, however I would like to draw your attention to
several issues, which, up to the present date have been largely ignored.
l).The missing video tape, highlighted by the drama documentary “ Hillsborough. ”
The programme, screened in late 1996 showed how this piece of evidence went
missing, and that it would have proven the police were aware that the disaster was
unfolding. This is supported by the testament of the video technician at the stadium that
day, Roger Holdsworth. On the day of your announcement you spoke ambiguously of a
“ number of suppositions ” that could be drawn as to why the tape disappeared. The most
cynical, and dare I say, obvious one, is that the police procured it to absolve themselves of
any blame. I therefore challenge you to name any other rational explanation for a piece of
vital evidence, in an enclosed police area, going missing, other than the one I have inferred
2).The coroner’s statement that “ all victims died by 3.15pm. ”
This would mean that none of the victims died by crush asphyxia, absolving the
police of much blame. This ignores hundreds of eye - witness accounts to the contrary,
and the new evidence of Dr Ed Walker. It also ignores the fact that one victim, Tony
Bland, lay in a permanent vegetative state until 1993, when he had his life support machine
turned off, and another victim, Andrew Devine, who remains in a similar state to this day.
There is also the issue of why only two ambulances were allowed access to the pitch,
suggesting Sheffield Wednesday F.C didn’t have the necessary safety procedures in place.
Such facts are indisputable, and yet they are ignored by the authorities, yourself included,
hence a verdict of “ accidental death.” Why is this the case ?
3).The question of Lord Justice Stewart - Smith’s impartiality.
Your representative’s first words on meeting the campaigners were “ Do you
have some of your people with you, or do you turn up late, like Liverpool fans ? ” Such an
insensitive remark perhaps passes some comment on any preconceived ideas he held, does
it not ? I acknowledge the families concerned accepted his apology, however, in light of
his findings, it surely merits some consideration.

V/
Apart from these issues, I would like to raise with you the matter of the police mis -
management of the crowd.
1). There is a widely held misconception that terraced areas were responsible for the
disaster. However, the same fixture had been held at the same ground some twelve months
earlier without a single death, nor any serious injuries. Moreover, why have some forty
lower league clubs retained terraced areas in the intervening nine years, without a single
fatality? Standing areas therefore cannot be considered as a cause of “ accidental death. ”
The blame must thus be attributed to police incompetence on the day.
2).The police lied that drunken, ticketless, fans broke down the gate and entered,
crushing those already inside. The Taylor Enquiry unequivocally stated that the police
opened the gate. Apologists for the police like Brian Clough, ex - manager of Notts
Forest, have tepidly spoken of “ probably ” hundreds of ticketless fans whereas police
interviewing relatives of victims on the day of the disaster, asked questions such as
whether they “ liked a drink or not. ” Leaving aside the sheer banal speculation and
insensitivity that these entail, it appears as though the police in particular, had a certain set
of events they wished to portray. Indeed, junior officers have since been forced to change
statements which indicted their superiors.
3). On entering the stadium the fans had three routes to choose from to enter the
terraced area. The police made no effort to stop them entering the one immediately ahead.
Had they cordoned this tunnel off, fans would have filtered into the side pens. The
Superintendent in charge that day, David Duckinfield abrogated his responsibility at the
original trial as he stated, and forgive me, I paraphrase, “ that fans within the tunnel
should have realised what was happening and turned around and walked back out ”. On
the drama documentary Hillsborough he also remarked, under oath, how he thought fans
would “filter out finding their own space. ” As the terrace was caged off into sections
both of these suggestions would have been physical impossibilities.
4). The Taylor Enquiry directed the blame at the police and Mr Duckenfield in
particular. It is thus outrageous that he was allowed to escape prosecution by claiming ill
health and retiring on a full pension. The “Cook Report” - which incidentally has been
praised for its work as an investigative body - then found this “ ill ” man strolling around
a golf course some years later. Indeed you yourself passed some blithe comment on the
length of time which has passed between the disaster and the present day and how such a
period of time can obscure facts and colour opinions, thus making it inappropriate to
reopen the inquiry. At a time when your government is launching a new inquiry - and
rightly so - into the “Bloody Sunday ” massacre, this is nothing less than hypocrisy.
Although of course there is far less political capital to be gained from supporting a body of
football fans than there is sympathising with a republicanist movement.
In conclusion, I hope you re-consider your decision, and reopen the inquiry, bringing
those accountable to justice. As I am sure you have deduced from my address, I am a
Liverpudlian myself, and as I was not present at the disaster, you may be tempted to
categorise this as nothing more than an emotive reaction. I would not dispute that I hold
strong views on the matter, however, this does not disqualify me from holding an
impartial, rational opinion. I would like to leave you with a comment I read in the
“Telegraph ” several days ago. In eighteen months time, it will be the tenth anniversary of

the Hillsborough tragedy. There will no doubt be a proliferation of “ trials by media ”
which if the positive reaction to the 1996 drama documentaiy is anything to judge by, will
be damning towards your decision. Thus it would be equally to your benefit to reconsider
your judgement immediately. I eagerly await your response, the nature of which shall
determine whether I shall continue to support your party.
Yoiirs Sinrprolv

j \
18.2.98
Dear Mr Straw,
I write to you in a sti consternation regarding your decision
not to re-open the enquiry into the Hillsborough disaster of 1989. It is shocking, and
indeed saddening for myself, as an ardent Labour supporter, to have to write to you in
such circumstances, nevertheless, I feel your announcement necessitates my response.
Your decision appears to have been based on the criteria that there is “ no new
evidence, ” into the disaster which claimed 96 lives and continues to affect an incalculable
number of others today. I beg to differ. I would not confess to being completely au fait
with the intricacies of our legal system, however I would like to draw your attention to
several issues, which, up to the present date have been largely ignored.
l).The missing video tape, highlighted by the drama documentary “ Hillsborough. ”
The programme, screened in late 1996 showed how this piece of evidence went
missing, and that it would have proven the police were aware that the disaster was
unfolding. This is supported by the testament of the video technician at the stadium that
day, Roger Holdsworth. On the day of your announcement you spoke ambiguously of a
“ number of suppositions ” that could be drawn as to why the tape disappeared. The most
cynical, and dare I say, obvious one, is that the police procured it to absolve themselves of
any blame. I therefore challenge you to name any other rational explanation for a piece of
vital evidence, in an enclosed police area, going missing, other than the one I have inferred
2).The coroner’s statement that “ all victims died by 3.15pm. ”
/ This would mean that none of the victims died by crush asphyxia, absolving the
I police of much blame. This ignores hundreds of eye - witness accounts to the contraiy,
and the new evidence of Dr Ed Walker. It also ignores the fact that one victim, Tony
I Bland, lay in a permanent vegetative state until 1993, when he had his life support machine
I turned off, and another victim, Andrew Devine, who remains in a similar state to this day.
I There is also the issue of why onlyTwo ambulances were allowed access to the pitch,
j suggesting Sheffield Wednesday F.C didn’t have the necessary safety procedures in place.
j Such facts are indisputable, and yet they are ignored by the authorities, yourself included,
hence a verdict of “ accidental death.” Why is this the case ?
V 3).The question of Lord Justice Stewart - Smith’s impartiality.
Your representative’s first words on meeting the campaigners were “ Do you
have some of your people with you, or do you turn up late, like Liverpool fans ? ” Such an
insensitive remark perhaps passes some comment on any preconceived ideas he held, does
it not ? I acknowledge the families concerned accepted his apology, however, in light of
his findings, it surely merits some consideration.

Apart from these issues, I would like to raise with you the matter of the police mis -
management of the crowd.
1). There is a widely held misconception that terraced areas were responsible for the
disaster. However, the same fixture had been held at the same ground some twelve months
earlier without a single death, nor any serious injuries. Moreover, why have some forty
lower league clubs retained terraced areas in the intervening nine years, without a single
fatality? Standing areas therefore cannot be considered as a cause of “ accidental death. ”
The blame must thus be attributed to police incompetence on the day.
2).The police lied that drunken, ticketless, fans broke down the gate and entered,
crushing those already inside. The Taylor Enquiry unequivocally stated that the police
opened the gate. Apologists for the police like Brian Clough, ex - manager of Notts
Forest, have tepidly spoken of “ probably ” hundreds of ticketless fans whereas police
interviewing relatives of victims on the day of the disaster, asked questions such as
whether they “ liked a drink or not. ” Leaving aside the sheer banal speculation and
insensitivity that these entail, it appears as though the police in particular, had a certain set
of events they wished to portray. Indeed, junior officers have since been forced to change
statements which indicted their superiors.
3). On entering the stadium the fans had three routes to choose from to enter the
terraced area. The police made no effort to stop them entering the one immediately ahead.
Had they cordoned this tunnel off, fans would have filtered into the side pens. The
Superintendent in charge that day, David Duckinfield abrogated his responsibility at the
original trial as he stated, and forgive me, I paraphrase, “ that fans within the tunnel
should have realised what was happening and turned around and walked back out ”. On
the drama documentaiy Hillsborough he also remarked, under oath, how he thought fans
would “filter out finding their own space. ” As the terrace was caged off into sections
both of these suggestions would have been physical impossibilities.
4). The Taylor Enquiry directed the blame at the police and Mr Duckenfield in
particular. It is thus outrageous that he was allowed to escape prosecution by claiming ill
health and retiring on a full pension. The “Cook Report” - which incidentally has been
praised for its work as an investigative body - then found this “ ill ” man strolling around
a golf course some years later. Indeed you yourself passed some blithe comment on the
length of time which has passed between the disaster and the present day and how such a
period of time can obscure facts and colour opinions, thus making it inappropriate to
reopen the inquiry. At a time when your government is launching a new inquiry - and
rightly so - into the “Bloody Sunday ” massacre, this is nothing less than hypocrisy.
Although of course there is far less political capital to be gained from supporting a body of
football fans than there is sympathising with a republicanist movement.
In conclusion, I hope you re-consider your decision, and reopen the inquiry, bringing
those accountable to justice. As I am sure you have deduced from my address, I am a
Liverpudlian myself, and as I was not present at the disaster, you may be tempted to
categorise this as nothing more than an emotive reaction. I would not dispute that I hold
strong views on the matter, however, this does not disqualify me from holding an
impartial, rational opinion. I would like to leave you with a comment I read in the
“Telegraph ” several days ago. In eighteen months time, it will be the tenth anniversary of

the Hillsborough tragedy. There will no doubt be a proliferation of “ trials by media ”
which if the positive reaction to the 1996 drama documentary is anything to judge by, will
be damning towards your decision. Thus it would be equally to your benefit to reconsider
your judgement immediately. I eagerly await your response, the nature of which shall
determine whether I shall continue to support your party.
Yours Sincerely

The Home Secretary
Mr. Jack Straw,
House Of Commons,
London,
SW1A OAA.
Sir
Hillsborough
20th.February,1998.
Is there somethihg sinister in the fact that we
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have not heard one word of condemnation of the horde
of yob fans outside the gates who totally ignored police
telling them that the stadium was full to capacity and
were hysterically clambering over the gates to get in?
I wathed it all on TV. I saw disaster waiting to happen.
A
So to,did millions of us. So why are we blaming it all
on others?
I shall always remember the fright on the face of that
mounted policeman who was desperately trying to control
the mob. Clearly he was afraid for himself and his horse
and in the certainty that what?'~^ver action he took he
would be in the wrong.
I saw this on TV before the match started, so the footage
is stowed somewhere. For sanity's sake, let us all see it
again.

The Home Secretary
Rt Hon Jack Straw MP,
The Home Office
Whitehall
London SW1
Dear Home Secretary,
February
I worked for the Labour Party at Walworth Road with Peter Mandelso
have been a solid active member of the Labour Party working within local government and in
my locality for the past nineteen years for the return of a Labour Government.
On Thursday, I called the Party HQ to cancel my membership of the Party following the
Government's announcement not to proceed with a new and full inquiry into the Hillsborough
disaster.
I was surprised myself at the reaction I felt, for I have no connection with Hillsborough.
However, I did attend a Home Office organised weekend in York on Emergency Planning for
officers in local government and emergency services like myself who may have to deal with
similar situations. There, I received a greater insight than I previously had into the Hillsborough
disaster, and into the tortuous judicial and bureaucratic processes undergone by the families of
the Hillsborough victims. Perhaps because I felt more informed than some, I took this particular
story of grief to heart.
You said in the House that we can not take the grief of the families away. That is absolutely
true. But if you had proceeded with a full inquiry, even after all these years, you and the
Government would have been seen to have attempted to reach out to the families. You and the
Government would have gone a long way to sharing the burden of grief Sharing the burden
is what investigating Bloody Sunday in Ireland is all about. It simply shows an acknowledgment
that these in power are willing to understand the pain. The action does not right the situation,
or bring back the dead, or take away grief, but it relieves people of their sense of powerlessness.
Compassion and understanding of how individuals and communities feel at times of loss was
exemplified by the Prime Minister when The Princess of Wales was killed. I do not believe that
anyone truly understands why that loss affected the country so deeply, but the Prime Minister
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and his advisors anticipated correctly the nations mood and how they would be required to
respond
But one correct response as was show then, is not enough. Within this country exist large
numbers of people who feel they have been neglected for twenty years by a callous self
interested Conservative Government. To show compassion and to express and act in a way
which shows humanitarian feeling and understanding is not a weakness, but something that
people need, even to the extent that they may not know that they need this. Neglect is not just
a physical deprivation but a spiritual one. And this country is lacking in that kind of leadership.
While this Labour Government struggles to fight the causes of crime, to implement zero
tolerance of those who would make their neighbours lives a misery, to balance the books so
woefully depleted by the policies of the last Government in an effort such things as our Health
Service alive, and while it has a strong chance of offering a new pride and vision to our nation,
I am convinced the Government will lose mass support if it fails to show compassion and to
act on that compassion.
So, up to now, although several other tough decisions on much bigger issues than Hillsborough
may have made me question what the Government was doing, I have been a realist and
pragmatic enough to recognise what a long road ahead Labour has to repair the damage already
done.
The decision on Hillsborough hurt. Maybe it was the straw that broke the camels back.
I don't know. But I felt my principles suddenly became more important To support the
Government on this and say nothing would be dishonest of me.
Of course I recognise that I have no power. I try to make helpful differences in the lives of those
I meet but I know that my voice alone is not important. The loss of my membership of the Party
will mean little or nothing, to the Party. It means an enormous change for me though.
But during all the years that I have been involved in promoting policy and arguing for change,
and in helping to get others to vote Labour, I had a keen intuition as to what the mood of the
nation was. I was usually right This country now has a chance of obtaining a new maturity and
to embrace new spiritual values. But, in these secular times, we need Government more than
ever before to take a lead, and to listen. In exalted positions of power; while leading the
incredibly pressured life of a senior politician, (despite however many focus groups you may
employ to assess the temperature of the nation) , the danger is that this Government will lose
touch and the vision will be lost.
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Hillsborough
18 February 1998
I don’t suppose you’ll take much notice o f this letter; indeed, you may not even
see it [the ‘standard response’ may confirm this]. However, in the hope that it may
have some small effect, I shall continue.
^ As an^tttendee o f The B rad fo rd fci^ F iret am perhaps understandably jaundiced
in my ^ w C ^ u tT lo p e m yfeelings against injustice will predominate.
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by the Coroner, they can then be treated by medics some time later and, in one
case, brought back to life. Please do explain how you feel able to uphold this
position.
My withdrawal o f future support for your party will be put on ‘hold’ awaiting your
response.
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VIEW FROM THE HOUSE
A man who
has pushed
his luck too far
AS thank you’s go it is
proving to be expensive.
And it is not just the
taxpayer who is paying.
iPony Blair is also incurring a
penalty in the political damage
inflicted on his government.
Derry Irving was cupid to Tony and
Cherie Blair. He was head of the
chambers where they met, and fell in
love, as young barristers. The younger
man has alw ays looked to the older one
for guidance. It was natural, therefore,
when he became Prim e M inister that Mr
Blair should want the relationship to
continue. Derry Irving w as made a life
peer, given a seat in the House of Lords,
and offered a post in government.
He is no ordinary m inister. As Lord
Chancellor he is head of the judiciary. He
is leader of the governm ent in the Lords
and also its Speaker. If that is not enough
power he is chairm an of several key
Cabinet com m ittees, including the one
w hich prepared the B ills for a Scottish
Parliam ent and a Welsh Assembly.
Lord Irving’s trouble is that power
seem s to have gone to his head. The other
day he even compared him self to Henry
VHTs Lord Chancellor, Cardinal Wolsey.
He does not just lay down the law; he acts
as if he is the law.
The judges don’t like it. Nor do the
politicians. Backbenchers emerge from
bruising encounters com plaining about
He does not just lay
down the law; he acts
as if he is the law.
Ms arrogance. He has clashed with
Cabinet colleagues, am ong them Donald
Dewar. Mr Dewar has a long-standing
grievance. His w ife left him for Derry
Irving. Mr Dewar has never remarried.
M inisters say the Lord Chancellor is no
politician. No politician would have spent
£300 a roll on wallpaper for his grace and
favour apartment, £145,000 on carpets and
soft furnishings, £94,000 on reproduction
furniture, and £8,000 on beds. Not when
the Government is talking of cutting back
on benefits for the poor.
Faced w ith an increasingly hostile
press Downing Street has been urging
Lord Irving to hire a political adviser. It
is too late, for him to mend fences with
the press, and there is speculation he may
have gone too far even for Mr Blair.
LORD Irving’s latest blunder was to
criticise newspapers for revealing
Robin Cook’s affair, and then
threaten to gag them w ith a backdoor
privacy law. Mr Cook, though, leapt to
the defence of the press by saying the
public had a right to know.
j Lord Irving’s m istake was to forget
about Rupert Murdoch. Before the
election Mr Blair made peace w ith the
newspaper tycoon whose leading daily
tabloid is credited with preventing N eil
Kinnock becom ing Prim e M inister in
1992. The Lord Chancellor is powerful,
but not as powerful as the man who
dumped the Tories to sell more
newspapers.
But speculation that Lord Irving may
be on the w ay out is premature. Mr Blair
still finds no fault w ith him . And after
spending hundreds of thousands of
pounds of taxpayers’ m oney so he can live
in grand style, is it likely he w ill want to
walk away from it?
DAILY POST OUR VIEW
Hillsborough: The hurt that remains
IN THE end, absolutely nothing. Not a
glimmer of optimism, not a whiff of a
promise, not one shred of comfort.
The families still mourning the 96
victims of the Hillsborough disaster had
prayed, dreamt, hoped that Labour Home
Secretary Jack Straw could restore their faith
in justice.
Could finally strip bare the myths about the
tragedy, could finally focus on the
unanswered questions, could finally declare:
“W e will get to the truth.”
But, ultimately, every promise proved an
empty one, every hope proved forlorn, every
word proved vacuous and meaningless.
The orchestrated leaks about what Mr
Straw was going to tell the Commons
yesterday might have helped to prepare the
ground for the disappointment. But, when the
announcement came, nothing could have
been bleaker.
There was to be no re-opened inquiry, no
quashing of the original inquest verdicts, no
investigation of evidence which had more
recently come to light.
In other words, nothing which has been
said in the seven years since the original
inquest is of any value whatsoever. It is over;
stop bothering us.
If this is Government acting in the best
interests of the people who elected it, then
Jack Straw is obviously not of this planet.
Instead of openness, we got excuses. In
place of candour, we got bluff and bluster.
Where everyone was hoping for honesty,
there was only instead the unedifying
spectacle of the establishment closing ranks.
Mr Straw may believe that, as a result of his
do-nothing deeds yesterday, the furore will
die down, that the clamour for fresh clues to
the root cause of the Hillsborough tragedy will
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eventually fade away. But he will be very
much mistaken.
Phil Hammond, who lost his teenage son,
also called Phil, in the disaster, has pledged
to stand against Home Office minister George
Howarth at the next election, in an attempt to
battle on for what he believes in.
Hillsborough families say they will take out
private prosecutions against police officers in
charge at the ground on that fateful day.
And campaigners insist that they will take
their fight to the highest courts in Europe, in
the hope of obtaining satisfaction.
The memories of that devastating day in
April, 1989, will, after all, haunt Merseyside for
generations to come. For those families most
emotionally involved, their lives can never be
the same.
S O
WHO can blame them for their
stubbornness? Their inability to let go?
Their unwillingness to concede defeat in
something which has so consumed their
energies for the past nine years?
No matter what Jack Straw might say, no
matter what Lord Justice Stuart-Smith might
report in his “independent scrutiny" of the
evidence, there are still issues here which cry
out for public resolution.
■ Lord Justice Taylor’s original inquiry report
concluded that failure of police control was
the main reason for the disaster. So why were
all attempts to bring disciplinary action
against senior officers dropped?
■ Trauma expert Alistair Wilson testified in a
TV World in Action special that many victims
died after 3.15pm - the official time of death
specified by Dr Stefan Popper, the coroner at
the original inquest. Why does no-one in
authority seem to care?
■ Lord Justice Stuart-Smith considered video
evidence from a closed-circuit TV camera at
the Leppings Lane end of the ground. Why
did police insist for years that the camera in
question was broken - and later that the film
was missing?
■ A video surveillance systems expert told
World in Action that he could clearly see a
dangerous crush building up in the crowd,
even before the game kicked off. Why didn’t
police see it? Or, worse, if they did see it, why
did they fail to act?
Mr Straw may consider that none of these
points would materially affect the outcome of
any new inquiry.
But simply being able to explore them
would reassure those families so rightly
anxious to uncover the truth that no stone
was being left unturned in the effort to do so.
The more questions that remain unanswered
and unresolved, the more likely it is that Mr
Straw will continue to be dogged by
persistent controversy.
It would have been a bold step to attempt
to clear up the confusion - but it would also
have served to alleviate the anguish for all
concerned. And, sadly, Mr Straw was simply
not up to the task.
Despite all the hope built up by his
statements in opposition, it all became
somewhat different when he made it into
power.
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DID agree, as a result of Lord Justice
Stuart-Smith’s intervention, though, that
inquests were not the best forum to
investigate large-scale disasters such as this.
If that is so, however, what sense does it
make to permit the original inquest verdict to
stand?
Mr Straw, you let the people of Merseyside
down when they needed your support. The
heartache and the questions will remain - and
do not believe that they will allow you to
forget it.
An independent new sp aper

Mr Jack Straw MP
House of Commons
Westminster
LONDON
Dear Mr Straw
HILLSBOROUGH
We are not only "united in sympathy with those who lost loved ones at
Hillsborough". We are also united in their quest for justice.
We feel that there is no justice in your decision to rule out a fresh inquiry into the
tragedy. It appears now that New Labour is just as capable of a cover-up as the
Conservative Party. Perhaps this is because you all belong to the very system that
failed these people with such gross negligence.
We will not support nor vote for New Labour in future. There is nothing "new" in
your kind of politics.
Sincerely
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13:51 19/02/98 +0, Hillsborough
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 13:51:38 +0000
From:
To: gen.hoygtnet.gov.uk
Subject: Hillsborough
FAO Jack Straw - Home Secretary
Dear Sir
When are the families of the 96 supporters who died at Hillsborough
on
15th April 1989 going to finally get justice?
There are still too many questions unanswered regarding that day.
Why has the FACT that the S Yorkshire police altered statements
gone
unpunished.
Its all very well for Richard Wells to come out and admit that his
force
was at fault and that they would 'continue to make amends wherever
we
can*. This is highly insulting to the families of the victims as
the
police admit liability yet appear to not be liable for any of their
actions on the day. Not one police officer has faced any charge
whatsoever.
The Labour party being elected in May '97 was a sign of great hope,
a
new era of open, honest and accountable government. What we are
faced
with again is a government frightened of facing up to its
responsibilities to its people on one of the most basic
cornerstones of
democracy - the right for a fair and proper inquest into an
unnatural
death - the right of justice for all.
OPPU r e g is t r y
21 FEB 1398
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Dear Mr Straw,
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18th February 1998
I feel that I must write to you in order to express my anger and disbelief at the news that
you are not to order a fresh inquiry into the Hillsborough tragedy.
The disaster has left deep wounds not only in the families of the victims but in Liverpool
as a whole, everybody knows somebody who was killed or injured. All we are asking is
for a chance for new evidence to be brought and for the reasons behind such meaningless
and terrible deaths to be explained,if never justified. The chance for new evidence to be
brought and for the events to be re-examined could provide a healing process for many
people and I feel that a new inquiry would do nothing but good.
I would hope that you could change your mind on this subject, Mr Straw, and I am sure
that mine is not the only letter you will receive expressing this opinion. Please listen to us.
Yours sincerely,

THE RT.HON. MR J. STRAW M P , THE HOME SECRETARY
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
WESTMINSTER
LONDON
SW1A OAA
18/02/98
Dear Mr. Straw,
I am writing this letter to you, concerning your statement, this afternoon, regarding the findings of the Hillsborough
Football Disaster.
I find it very hard to believe that, since that very tragic occurrence on 15/04/89, which will remain in countless
peoples minds forever, that there is not going to be a reopening of the inquiry, in light of new evidence existing.
I do most strongly feel that the relatives, families and friends of the people, who became tragic victims, on that day,
now feel, that any hope that they have most surely had, in believing that a satisfactory result for them, has
now seemed to have completely disappeared.
I am writing this letter, with a very heavy heart, because to me, this most distressing chapter has seemed to have
been closed without a most rightful conclusion, in so much as, all these people must surely now feel, that they are
not going to receive justice,which to me, is what they could, and indeed should, receive without question.
I thank you for your time and attention in reading this letter.
Yours faithfully,
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Mr Jack Straw MP
Home Secretary
House of Commons
Westminster
London SW1
Dear Mr Straw,
Hillsborough Disaster
19th February 1998
I was surprised and saddened by your decision not to order a new public
enquiry into the 96 deaths.
As a Labour Party member of some 15 years, a football supporter and a
father of 2 children, I feel that you have NOT honoured the pledge you
made while in opposition and have ‘betrayed’ the families of the victims
of this dreadful but avoidable disaster.
Yours sincerely,

Dear Mr Straw,
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19 February 1998
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We are writing to you [as, we hope, are thousands of others] toj express dur anger and outrage
at your appalling decision to continue the cower up ewer the j
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As football supporters ourseives we simply cannot understand how it is possible for9&peoplq to
die at a football match and for nobody to be held responsible. |V e cannot believe that you n the Lepptngs Lane terraces? W hat about the 3.15 pm cut off? W hat about
the complete failure of the emergency services?
W e believe, Mr Straw, that you have made a huge mistake in not ordering a new inquiry into
Hillsborough; unlike many erf our friends we did not expect much from a Labour Government
following very conservative policies. W hat we did expect w as decency and it is a source of great
anguish for us that we do not even get that
We are bitterly disappointed that you have not allowed the relatives and football supporters in
general to achieve natural justice; we believe that you have, by this decision, forfeited the right
to hold high office and that you should resign forthwith; you have refused to treat us with dignity
and respect and deserve none in return.
Yours faithfully,
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To Jack Straw,
19th February 1998
I write to express my disgust and dismay at the decision not to allow a full public enquiry into the
Hillsborough disaster,
I am sure that you and Lord Justice Stuart-Smith have fully acquainted yourselves of the facts
surrounding the disaster which is why I find it unbelievable that neither of you seems to see the
need for further action. Ninety six entirely innocent people died, and thousands more have been
traumatised because of the negligence and incompetence of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club,
the Football Association and in particular the South Yorkshire Constabulary. I fail to see how any
honest examination of the facts can lead to the conclusion that these people died accidentally.
Many people have already been let down by New Labour. The friends and families of the
Hillsborough victims simply want the truth of what happened to their loved ones to be publicly
recorded and for those responsible to be brought to justice. I am very disappointed that these
simple and justified requests are being denied to protect a big business and a police force that
seem to lack any regret for what they have done.
Y o u r S f i n t h f i i l l v
27 FEB 19§r

Rt Hon. Jack Straw MP
Houses of Parliament
London
19th February 1998
Dear M r Straw
I have never written to an M P before, but your decision yesterday with regards to the tragedy of
Hillsborough on 15th April 1989, both moved me to write and to tears.
When your party were in opposition, you were deafening in your support for a re-enquiry into the
disaster, a reason why a good number o f Liverpool FC fans, and those of other clubs, voted for party,
now^your support is deafening by its’ silence.
The decision has stunned many Liverpool fans I come into contact with on a daily basis, also those of
other teams in the country are completely surprised by your apparent U-Turn.
You claim that the ‘new’ evidence would not be enough to bring about this new enquiry, but surely it is
this evidence o f police failure at every level that is the crux of the whole disaster, they were there to
PO LIC E the day, they failed, and as a result 96 Football fans - Human beings, parents, children,
grandparents, students, in fact just about every age group is represented in a way most horrid - D IE D .
The numerous slurs we football fans, and in particular Liverpool fans, have had to put up with over the
past years could have been disproved, even judges in charge o f preliminary follow up enquiry’s were
making jokes at the fans expense; I repeat, 96 people died that day, it could have been your children, your
friends, your parents, but you don’t seem to realise this, you give false sorrow, but you don’t know the
pain, resentment of bad policing and cover-ups not seen since the assassination of JFK and the heartache
we have endured these past 9 years like we, the lucky fans who came home after that day, do.
I urge you to reconsider, maybe my one voice won’t be enough, but the strength of opinion is rising
against you and we have people power on our side in the search for the truth.
Rest in Peace, and Justice for the 96.
Yours sincerely
r

Home Secretary Jack Straw
Houses o f Parliament
Westminster
London
Dear Mr Straw,
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February 1998
I am a student at Cardiff University, and was once a potential Labour voter - but not any longer. I was
dismayed and outraged upon hearing the news that you have decided not to open a new inquiry into the
Hillsborough tragedy where ninety-six innocent people lost their lives. I was not related to any o f those
people who died on that day, but I feel that you need to be informed o f a lot o f people’s feelings on this
issue.
We hear about video tapes going missing, conveniently stolen; about lies told by senior police officers in
order to save their own necks; about the seemingly ridiculous time o f death situation; about the mal­
treatment o f grief stricken witnesses; all o f which were covered up or ignored by the original inquiry. Then
you expect us to believe that the new evidence would add “nothing o f significance” to the previous
inquiry’s findings. Lying in order to get away with negligence is not what I would term insignificant. Video
tape evidence apparently showing that pens three and four were already overcrowded by 14:52 hours seem
highly significant to me, as do many other points which have been raised.
The bereaved families are only asking for justice, for someone to stand up and take some responsibility for
what has happened, for steps to be taken to ensure that such a situation will never re-occur. By taking this
decision, you have ensured that these families’ lives will continue to be one long nightmare. How could
anyone live with himself knowing that they had been responsible for the perpetuation o f so much grief?
As Home Secretary, how can you condone lies by senior police officers? How can you sit back and forget
the gross negligence o f your police force? If the bereaved families have the guts to go through the torment
o f a new inquiry, then you should be ashamed that you haven’t. In my opinion, if you cannot even try to
protect people’s basic human rights, then you are not able to do your job properly and as such should
resign.

Politicians such as you often question why there is such political apathy in this country. This situation,
which you have caused, is a good example. What is the point in caring, in protesting, in trying to make a
difference? At the end o f the day, things just get brushed under the carpet and nothing changes. People
voted for your party at the last election because they thought that you would bring a fresh outlook to
Government. They thought that things would be more open under Labour, as you promised them it would,
but there is no change. Why should anyone even bother to vote? On this issue, as with so many others, you
have done exactly what the Tories would have done — taken the easiest way out for yourselves.
What little faith I had in your Government has disappeared completely. Although you probably won’t even
read this letter, I am at least trying to do the right thing, which is a lot more than can be said for you.
Yours sincerely

Thank you for your recent letter about the Hillsborough Disaster.
The Home Secretary is very conscious of the strength of feeling surrounding the
Hillsborough Disaster, and he understands that his decision not to hold a fresh inquiry
will be a disappointment to the families of those who died and for many who have
supported the families’ campaign.
As he explained in the House of Commons, one of his first concerns on taking office
last year was to ensure that there should be a thorough and independent investigation
of any material which cast doubt on earlier findings about the disaster. The Home
Secretary, therefore, announced on 30 June 1997 that he had asked Lord Justice
Stuart-Smith to conduct a scrutiny of the evidence and to report his conclusions.
The Home Secretary is satisfied that Lord Justice Stuart-Smith has conducted a
thorough scrutiny of the evidence and considered its significance carefully. His report
is comprehensive and sets out clearly the matters he has considered and the reasons
for his conclusions. He has considered all the material allegations about missing or
concealed videotape evidence, the alleged interference with witnesses and witness
statements and concerns about the use of the 3.15pm cut-off time at the Inquest.
It is inevitable with a disaster of this magnitude that evidence will emerge from time
to time which has not been heard publicly before. What the Scrutiny had to consider
was not only whether the evidence put forward was new, but also whether it was of
such significance that it would justify a new inquiry, or further consideration by the
Attorney General (with regard to the inquest) or the criminal or disciplinary
authorities.
The Home Secretary has considered the Judge’s report carefully and accepts the
conclusion which he has reached that the evidence submitted to him does not add
anything significant to the evidence available to and considered by the Taylor Inquiry
and the Inquests.
The Home Secretary has made it clear that he entirely accepts Lord Justice Taylor’s
conclusion that the principal cause of the disaster was the failure of police control.
Lord Justice Stuart-Smith himself condemned what he described as Chief
Superintendent Duckenfield’s “disgraceful lies” that fans had opened Gate C.
The Home Secretary shares the sentiments expressed by Lord Justice Stuart-Smith in
Chapter 7 of his Report when he says:
“I understand the dismay that they (the families) have that no individual has
personally been held to account either in a criminal court, disciplinary proceedings,
or even to the extent of losing their job
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The Home Secretary has indicated that there are profound shortcomings in the present
police discipline system which he intends to address. The Home Affairs Select
Committee recently made some important recommendations about the police
complaints and discipline procedures. The Home Secretary is considering their
comments closely.
The Home Secretary also supports Lord Justice Stuart-Smith’s endorsement of the
findings of a Home Office Working Party, published in March 1997, that the role of
the coroner after a public inquiry should be limited. The main change proposed by the
Working Party was to relieve coroners of the need to resume their inquest after an
inquiry has been completed. If this had been in place at the time of the Hillsborough
Disaster, it would have spared the families of those who died unnecessary distress
when the Taylor Inquiry had covered substantially the same ground as the Inquest.
For the families of those who died at Hillsborough the grief will never end, and the
Home Secretary recognises that it will be difficult and painful for them to accept his
decision. The original Taylor Inquiry was very thorough and was unequivocal in
identifying the main causes of the disaster, and the Home Secretary hopes that the
families will accept that Lord Justice Stuart-Smith’s scrutiny was equally rigorous.
The Home Secretary has indicated that he is ready to talk to the families further to
explain his decision.
Yours sincerely
Mr M Pyne
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HILLSBOROUGH LETTER
I (the Home Secretary) am very conscious of the strength of feeling surrounding the
Hillsborough Disaster, and I understand that my decision not to hold a fresh inquiry
will be a disappointment to the families of those who died and for many who have
supported the families’ campaign.
As I explained in the House of Commons, one of my first concerns on taking office
last year was to ensure that there should be a thorough and independent investigation
of any material which cast doubt on earlier findings about the disaster. I, therefore,
announced on 30 June 1997 that I had asked Lord Justice Stuart-Smith to conduct a
scrutiny of the evidence and to report his conclusions.
I am satisfied that Lord Justice Stuart-Smith has conducted a thorough scrutiny of the
evidence and considered its significance carefully. His report is comprehensive and
sets out clearly the matters he has considered and the reasons for his conclusions. He
has considered all the material allegations about missing or concealed videotape
evidence, the alleged interference with witnesses and witness statements and concerns
about the use of the 3.15pm cut-off time at the Inquest.
It is inevitable with a disaster of this magnitude that evidence will emerge from time
to time which has not been heard publicly before. What the Scrutiny had to consider
was not only whether the evidence put forward was new, but also whether it was of
such significance that it would justify a new inquiry, or further consideration by the
Attorney General (with regard to the inquest) or the criminal or disciplinary
authorities.
I have considered the Judge’s report carefully and I accept the conclusion which he
has reached that the evidence submitted to him does not add anything significant to
the evidence available to and considered by the Taylor Inquiry and the Inquests.
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Lord Justice Stuart-Smith has made it clear that he entirely accepts Lord Justice
Taylor’s conclusion that the principal cause of the disaster was the failure of police
control. Lord Justice Stuart-Smith himself condemned what he described as Chief
Superintendent Duckenfield’s “disgraceful lies” that fans had opened Gate C.
I do share the sentiments expressed by the Lord Justice Stuart-Smith in Chapter 7 of
his Report when he says:
“I understand the dismay that they (the families) have that no individual has
personally been held to account either in a criminal court, disciplinary proceedings,
or even to the extent o f losing their job
There are profound shortcomings in the present police discipline system which I
intend to address. The Home Affairs Select Committee recently made some important
recommendations about the police complaints and discipline procedures. I have been
considering their comments closely and I will be responding shortly / 1 have recently
announced my response to the HAC recommendations including my intention to
reduce the standard of proof to the civil standard in discipline procedures and to
remove the existing double jeopardy provision which restricts criminal and
disciplinary action on the same facts. I have also endorsed the Committee’s
recommendation that forces should show greater commitment to their powers to
verify claims of sickness and disability and, where appropriate, to postpone a request
to retire on ill health grounds until the completion of disciplinary proceedings.
I also support Lord Justice Stuart-Smith’s endorsement of the findings of a Home
Office Working Party, published in March 1997, that the role of the coroner after a
public inquiry should be limited. The main change proposed by the Working Party
was to relieve coroners of the need to resume their inquest after an inquiry has been
completed. If this had been in place at the time of the Hillsborough Disaster, it would
have spared the families of those who died unnecessary distress when the Taylor
Inquiry had covered substantially the same ground as the Inquest.
G:\HILLS\MCLETTER.DOC

For the families of those who died at Hillsborough the grief will never end, and I
recognise that it will be difficult and painful for them to accept my decision. The
original Taylor Inquiry was very thorough and was unequivocal in identifying the
main causes of the disaster, and I hope that the families will accept that Lord Justice
Stuart-Smith’s scrutiny was equally rigorous. I am, as you know, ready to talk to the
families further to explain my approach. fj~met a delegation whilst in Southport on 7
March and ! am arranging-a l^getmeeting in Merseyside,^
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I am once again watching the Granada television production called
Hillsborough, in light of your decision not to order a review of
the new
evidence that has become available since the initial investigation.
I am horrified and ashamed at the way in which this whole event has
been
"swept under the carpet".
I believe that Jack Straw, as a father, has an obligation to see
that
justice is done, and that those that should be accountable, or
those whose
negligence and bad decisions were a contributory factor in this
terrible
tragedy are admonished or brought to justice.
I sit here ashamed that our great country, built on foundations of
justice
and fairness appears to be involved in what appears to me to be a
cover up
of Watergate proportions and that the memory of the 96 cannot be
laid to
rest until someone in authority is made accountable for this
avoidable
tragedy.
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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 21:53:55 GMT
Subject: Justice for the 96
Priority: normal
Fresh inquiry NOW
2 1 :5 3 1 7 /0 2 /9 8 GM, J u s t i c e f o r th e 96
I Want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....Not
screaming
and yelling like the passengers in his car
Tel:
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PRICE WATERHOUSE, 21:26 21/02/98 +-, Hillsborough
From: ' I
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Subject: Hillsborough
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 21:26:55 +-1100
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Well, well - what a surprise. After years of hollow promises and
months of some puppet Lord 'Justice' allegedly investigating the
possibility of a re-inquest into the Hillsborough Disaster, we
finally hear back that there will be no change.
We didn't expect anything else - the Labour party are as much a
disgrace as the last lot. The evidence and facts speak for
themselves and one day they will be presented in an open forum.
Until then it is easy for the establishment to let the public think
that the police do a hard job very well and Liverpool supporters
are murdering, thieving drunken scum. Of course the public couldn't
handle the truth - that South Yorks police at the hands of
Duckenfield, Marshall and Co, murdered 96 helpless men, women and
children. They packed us in. They stood there and watched us. They
pushed us back in. They did nothing.
^ If you think this is the end of it then you must be more stupid
than I thought. What you've got to understand is that we live with
this every day of our lives. Sometimes I have to look away from my
laughing children because all I can see is the kids who died next,
to me and all I can hear is their screams. And that wilTliake TtT~
reasIeFto harass you for the rest of our lives until justice is
served.
You are an absolute disgrace - no better than the scum who
originally perpetrated this and now part of the cover-up machine
with them
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C 0 5 :4 2 2 1 / 0 2 /9 8 - 0 , Mr D u c k in f ie ld - H ills b o r o u g h
Date:,Sat. 21 F^b 199R 05:4?:17 -0500
From:
Sub j ect: Mr Dnr-ki n f i p 1 H - Hill abnrnnrrh
Sender:
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Mr Jack Straw
I'll be in my spot on the Kop on Monday night - I'll be holding up
a
Justice card and
joining in the chants.
It will be pointless, but will be necessary for my conscience and
frustration.
For I stoQ^..(aK^Leppings Lane that day. I came
home, my (cousin )Eric Hughes didn't.
V v ^
I have feelings of guilt because I took the decision to stand at
the side
that day, based on my previous visits to the centre with all the
crushes
/
etc.
live
- I looked across at the dying, I came home - That is what I
with - I wasn't even able to 'help out' on the pitch like the other /
'heroes'.
So where I stand on all this is tinged with vindictiveness. If the I
next
option is private prosecutions, then so be it. j
However I wonder were the smug and very rich Mr Duckinfield gets j
his j
'payback' in all this. Surely I would be within my rights to /
organise some
kind of legal
disruption to his daily life ?
I would like him brought in front of a Live TV chat show audience
to admit
his failings. - This would surely make the private prosecutions run
smoother and less costly.
Your summing up in the Commons proved that you know he has got away
with
it.
Please help us now by pressuring him to tell the truth, and in
doing so
the barristers and solicitors won't be the only ones to gain from
all this.
Hoping to receive a reply
Yours sincerely
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I would like to express my disgust at the recent anouncement by
the Home
Secretary, Rt Hon Jack Straw, regarding a new enquiry into the
deaths of 96
people at Hillsborough. It seems that New Labour has failed those
who voted
in only a short period in office. I suppose a resolution
satisfactory to
the families of the 96 who died will only come about when it is
politically
expedient for the Government of the day, as has been seen in the
recent
case of Bloody Sunday.
I only hope that the 96 families do not have to wait that long for
justice.
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1 5 :4 7 2 0 /0 2 /9 8 + 0, J u s t i c e f o r th e 96
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:47:07 +0000 (GMT)
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Hi/
I know you are probably being inundated with mails from people
such as
myself, but I'm afraid a cannot stand by any longer and watch the
families
and friends of the 96 fans crushed to death in 1989 being further
hurt and
tormented by the governments decision not to allow the truth to be
explored with a new and independant inquiry into the Hillsborough
disaster.
You have nothing to fear from an inquiry but the emergence of the
truth,
and surely this is not something to be feared by a Labour
Government
dedicated to ensuring justice and equality for all.
Might I remind you all that it was a conservative Government which
was in
power at the time of the disaster, and so you have no need to fear
transferance of the blame onto yourslves.
Thank you for your time and patience,
Rg.c:t- Wishes,
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Date: Fri. 20 Feb 1998 09:30:03 -0600 (CST)
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Subject: hillsborough
To whom it may concern,
The whole city of Liverpool is disgraced at the decision made on
the
Hillsborough disaster. Those families of the victims were never
given a
fair trial. Do you honestly believe that a cut off time of 3.15pm
is
adequate when doctors are still saying they treated victims at this
time
and ambulances were not allowed on the pitch after this time also.
We are
not dealing with so called scum Liverpool football fans here we are
talking about 96 lives. If things were conducted correctly first
of all
this may not of happened but at least half of those lives could of
been
saved if ambulances were allowed on the pitch. Lets be fair and
listen to
new evidence what harm will it do, it will be a great comfort for
the
families of those people lost. Please think about it as what would
you
feel if it was your son or daughter,
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Subject: To Mr Jack Straw: "Hillsborough Kop Out."
Mr Straw,
In May of 1997 I and many thousands of others supported your party
by
voting for you in the general election and thus provided you with
the
privileged position in which you now sit. On the 18th of February
1998
your repaid the support of me and thousands of others by this
disgusting
cover up.
However hard the survivors and families new it was going to be to
go up
against the "establishment" and win, the setting up of the new
inquiry
gave us all hope. Quite how you as a football fan yourself could be
party to the stubborn protection of the Police is very upsetting.
Having
read your article in today's "Mirror", and always assuming that it
was
written by you, I have become even more angered by the outcome. You
claim that the heart of the nation is with the families, you had
the
opportunity to help and did nothing but build them up to knock them
back
down again. The fact that Lord Justice Stuart Smith recommended no
fresh
inquiry is irrelevant, the man should have been removed from his
position the very second that he made his sick "joke" about the
disaster
in Liverpool last year when meeting the relatives of those who
died. It
was your duty to remove him and you failed in your duty.
I am afraid that this has exposed you and your party for exactly
what
you are and what you stand for. A shameful shadow of your former
selves
who are interested in protecting the beloved "establishment" at all
costs. This action has cost your party one vote in every one of the
next
elections in the coming decades, and I would be willing to place
bets on
it costing you many many more.
The fight for justice will go on, you can not sweep us under the
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Subject: Hillsboro
What a travesty of "justice" Take a long hard look at your Mission
Statement at the beginning of this site.Why don't you try to
protect the
people you claim to represent?
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Subject: How is it possible?
Dear(well ) sirs/madams,
How on earth can you possibly ignore experts saying that a lot of
the
Hillsborough 96 were still alive well after 3.15PM???
bow can you ignore that after 3.45PM there were
blood-alcohol-level-tests taken by someone who was very keen to
prove
there was alcoholabuse in the game.
Are you "covering up" for some of your dear friends at the South
Yorkshire Police???????
ALL WE WANT IS FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT REALLY
HAPPENED,
WE DONT WANT MONEY(although it would be nice...), WE WANT THE
TRUTH, THE
REAL TRUTH AND NOT THE ONE THE S-YORKSHIRE-POLICE WANT.
Yours "truly"
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Subject: No faith in the British Justice System or Police
I have never been moved to wite a letter of complaint before but on
this
issue I am so disgusted with the outcome that I feel I must let my
grevance be heared.
The decsison given on the Hillsborough inquest has failed the
Familys of
the dead and injured, but more improtantly it has failed the
British
Public. Joe Public is more than aware of who is responsible for
the
tragedy and who should be punished but again the British justice
system
fails them even though the evideance against the Police is
concrete.
Isn’t it about time the British public had a justice system they
can
relay on and Police they can trust? Isn't it about to restore some
faith with the public and stop being so wet that you can’t admit
the
truth.
You disgust me, Labour disgusts me and so do the Police.
We don't stand a chance!
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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:00:38 +0000
Subject: Hillsborough Inquiry
Dear Jack Straw,
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, 10:00 20/02/98 +0, Hillsborough Inquiry
Could you please enlighten myself as to the reasoning behind the
decision
to deny a fresh enquiry into the Hillsborough Disaster.
>From the position I'm in, which I admit is likely to be less
informed of
the real facts, I see no reason to deny a fresh inquiry. For the
families
involved, they believe they willestablish the truth. For the
Authorities,
they will have an opportunity to regain their credibility, although
they
also may be held responsible. For the Government, they have the
opportunity to put the public minds at rest.
Therefore, for the parties involved, it can be to everyones
advantage to
allow a fresh inquiry to settle matters. This could be achieved,
but will
cost money. An inquiry should not be prevented if the sole reason
is
money.
>From recent press coverage, there are a number of reports claiming
that new
evidence is available which was not available for the original
inquiry.
For the sake of the People and Families from Liverpool and
elsewhere and
Public Peace of Mind please reconsider your decision and grant a
new
inquiry.
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Subject: hillsborough
19:23 24/02/98 ES, hillsborough
mention one word and you will know what I mean.
Its about time that something was done to finally inable the 96 to
rest in
peace.
As an outsider I can still feel the pain of those involved and
cannot describe
exactly how much it grieves me to know that the government of this
country is
unwilling to give the victims and their fammilies the justice that
they
deserve.
is it so hard to admit that there were people at fault and make
them pay for
the devastating effects their actions caused.
Hillsborough will NEVER be forgotten but you could make it
easier to live
with.
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My granddad - Labour councilor for Ellesmere Port
is
turning in his grave at the decision not to order a full inquiry
into the
Hillsborough disaster. He was in regular touch with the late Eric
Heffer
MP and a friend of Fred Venables who also was a councilor.
I am ashamed to be a labour supporter and I am positive that
unless you
use your powers to take the matter further, then, the guilty will
go
unpunished.
If you let this opportunity pass, it will never be available again.
Mr. Straw, DO NOT LET THE PEOPLE DOWN
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Subject: HILLSBOROUGH
JUSTICE.
WE WON'T GO AWAY.
09:50 25/02/98 +0, HILLSBOROUGH
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C 20:59 16/02/98 +0, Hillsborough Disaster
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 20:59:08 +0000
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From:
S u b j e c m n n x s o o r o u g n Disaster
Please, please agree to re-open this enquiry and afford a measure
of
comfort to the families of the victims, and the members of the
emergency
services who are still living under the cloud of this disaster.
Not many disasters happen in a lifetime that touch the general
population to the extent that one can remember exactly what one was
doing at the time.
I remember well the Munich Air Disaster of 1958 - the Assassination
of
JFK in 1963 - the death of The Princess of Wales in 1997. On that
Saturday in April 1989, I was travelling home from my work along
the M67
(Denton to Sheffield road) when I heard the first broadcasts of the
disaster on my car radio. I can remember gasping and pulling onto
the
hard shouder, momentarily, to listen more carefully.
This cannot be dealt with as a political issue. It is a humane
issue
that touches every one of us whether we have families, or not,
whether
we are football fans, or not.
Please help justice to be seen to be done.
WUREGismy
24 1998
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21:10 16/02/98 -0, Hillsborough
From:
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Subject: Hillsborough
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 21:10:33 -0000
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Dear Mr Jack Straw,
I was filled with hope when it was first announced that there was
to be a
possible new enquiry into the Hillsborough trajedy. Certain
comments re
the lateness of the families" just like Liverpool supporters at
Hillsborough" ( or words to the same effect), made me suspicious.
Howether
I maintained hope from 'New Labour' to be fair and honest, alas
despite
even tonights 'World in Action' programme it seems once again a
miscarriage
of justice is to be further ignored. I write this in light of
certain
leaked reports and prior to your official announcement but am sure
that
your answer is NO.
Well, if this is the case I would ask this. Why in the light of
such
outstanding evidence is nothing being done? and if no one is to
blame what
have the Police got to hide?
Please give the families and those dead some JUSTICE.
I await your reply
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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 22:34:36 EST
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Subject: hillsborough
22:34 18/02/98 ES, hillsborough
With today's decision not to grant a new enquiry,i feel you have
given the
police the right to not carry out the duty to protect people at
football
grounds,and if they do do anything incompantly then all they have
to do when
caught lying is to cry sick,then they can get away with any
incompetance.
I always had great respect for Britsh justice and the Labour Party
but not any
more,i now feel i can not and will not support the Labour Party
while this
travesty of injustice prevails.
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For the attention of Mr. Jack Straw.
Dear Sir;
I learned today that you had ruled out a fresh public inquiry into
the 1989
Hillsborough football ground disaster.
The newspapers tell me that you claimed that a scrutiny of alleged
new
video tape and medical evidence by Lord Justice Stuart-Smith had
not added
''anything significant'' to the material available to the previous
public
inquiry.
You then proceeded to tell the House of Commons that the findings
of Lord
Justice Taylor's original inquiry were still valid and there were
no
grounds to quash the verdicts of the inquest and that there was no
material
which might cause the Director of Public Prosecutions or the police
disciplinary authorities to reconsider their earlier decisions in
the case.
It seems that now even the Labour party and you as the minister
responsible
have been sucked in to the web of lies and deceit that have
shrouded this
tragedy and protected the criminally irresponsible authorites since
minutes
after the terribly wrongminded decisions were taken that have
caused such
misery and grief to the thousands of friends and relatives of the
victims
still seeking justice.
Please tell me how the following account of the events surrounding
the
tragedy, which appeared in today Guardian, can possibly tally with
your
account to the House of Commons today and Lord Justice Stuart-Smith
evidence to you stating that is enquiry had not added ''anything
significant'' to the material available to the previous public
inquiry.
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Time for the truth "The Guardian"
Today the Home Secretary is expected to rule out another inquiry
into the
Hillsborough disaster in which 96 football fans died. Ed Walker, a
doctor,
worked in the hospital emergency department where the casualties
were
taken. This is his story Wednesday February 18, 1998
For a quarter of an hour on that afternoon of April 15,1989, I was
the only
suitably-experienced doctor in the accident and emergency
department of
Sheffield's Northern General Hospital. In the weeks following the
Hillsborough disaster, I gave two written statements/ one for the
hospital,
and one that I wrote out on West Midlands statement paper in my own
time.
[West Midlands police were the force charged by the coroner with
gathering
evidence for the inquests.] I kept a copy of the first but not the
second.
And then my life went on, until December 1996, when Granada
Television
broadcast Jimmy McGovern's Hillsborough, a dramatisation of the
events. As
a result of this, I got in touch with the families.
I also, at last, got a copy of my 'police' statement, signed on
every page
by a West Midlands woman police sergeant, in the place that says
"signature
witnessed by..." I never met any police officers, let alone this
one. Then
I found out that I had been referred to as "unidentified" at the
inquests.
I was probably one of the most easily identifiable medics
concerned.
Certainly easier to trace and interview than another volunteer who
lived in
London and was visited three times by police officers, who came on
each
occasion fully armed with photographs for him to look at. I only
lived five
minutes away. But no visit. Ever.
After years of legal battles and petitioning, it finally took the
television programme to bring things to some kind of a head. During
the
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last half of last year, Lord Justice Stuart-Smith, on the
instructions of
the Home Secretary, heard from interested parties who believe they
have
evidence which throws doubt on the original inquest verdict. The
judge has
now presented his report to Mr Straw, who is to give his findings
to the
House of Commons today.
As one of those interested parties, I met the judge last October. I
cannot
disclose the full contents of that meeting but the following is for
those
who have forgotten, those who never knew, and those who thought
they knew
it all.
The Hillsborough disaster took place at a football match between
two big
clubs - Liverpool and Nottingham Forest - at a first division
ground, with
stewards, policing, and video surveillance, and yet still 96 people
lost
their lives. Although it happened within two miles of a major
teaching
hospital, only 14 of those who died ever made it that far: 82 died
on the
pitch where friends and bystanders, along with a handful of trained
personnel and volunteers, did what they could with pitifully
inadequate
equipment.
There have been two major investigations - the report by the late
Lord
Justice Taylor, and the inquests held in Sheffield by the South
Yorkshire
coroner of the time, Dr Stefan Popper. No family member I have met
has
anything other than respect for Taylor.
He heard that in the face of a huge mass of people outside the
ground,
unable to get through the turnstiles in time, and with kick-off
fast
approaching, the order was given to open Gate C. This allowed
around 2,000
fans into already overcrowded pens with no means of escape, and was
apparently preferable to delaying the kick-off time. The South
Yorkshire
superintendent who gave the order to open the gate retired through
"ill
health" before he could face disciplinary proceedings.
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Then came Dr Popper's much-criticised Sheffield inquests, and the
verdict
of 'accidental death'. Pre-Popper the police were at fault.
Post-Popper, it
was no one's fault. This is, it seems, what drives the families -
those two
words: accidental death, with their implication of lack of
responsibility
and no lack of care.
The fatal injuries were all remarkably similar, and of such a
unique nature
that they surprised everyone concerned. The victims were crushed to
death.
Squashed until they were unable to breathe and died simply of lack
of
oxygen. It was surprising to hear talk of "instant death" at the
inquests.
Those exact words may not have been used, but the impression given
by
pathological experts was that unconsciousness would supervene
within
seconds and death within four to six minutes of the beginning of
the crush.
What they meant, of course - and they are right - is that these
estimates
apply if you "turn off the oxygen supply to the brain". But I
simply cannot
conceive that this applies in the case of Hillsborough. There would
be at
one moment agonising pressure, and at the next some slight respite,
allowing you perhaps one last breath.
These poor people were not taken unawares. Like many others, I
assumed that
the authorities put forward the 'instant death' hypothesis as a
means of
assuaging grief. Now I am not so sure.
The coroner also decided not to let the jury hear evidence of
anything that
happened after 3.15pm - the "3.15 cut-off", reasoning that all
those who
died had received their fatal injuries by then. That some people
did
survive, (after receiving life-saving treatment in hospital), and
that they
were in the same crush of bodies receiving similar injuries, was of
no
concern to the coroner. The living are not investigated at
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only
The 3.15 ruling meant that the jury did not hear that dozens of
ambulances
were not allowed onto the pitch, or of confusion which led to delay
in
activating the hospital's "Major Accident Plan". I spent six hours
at the
hospital, but can only recall about 15 minutes-worth of 'action'.
Memories
fade, which is just as well, but some images from that six hours
are never
going to go away.
A twist more suited to a novel by Kafka follows next. The disaster
occurred
on the same weekend that a conference of pathologists was taking
place in
Sheffield. The system that had been so unable to cope with saving
peoples'
lives swung into full action when it came to dissecting their
bodies. By
2pm the following Monday, 94 bodies had been autopsied by nine
forensic
pathologists at the brand-spanking-new MedicoLegal centre, the
first of its
kind in the country.
Just, perhaps, to prove their thoroughness, every body including a
10-year-old, a 13-year-old, and two 14-year-olds, had samples taken
for
blood alcohol measurement. Quite who took this decision and when,
is
unclear. The 'why' is easier to speculate about. If the intention
was to
prove the existence of a drunken mob, it backfired in two ways.
First,
hardly any of the victims had significant levels of alcohol in
their blood;
second, the sampling was performed in such a way as to make the
results
little more than useless.
Alcohol is a by-product of decay and decomposition. It can be
produced from
decaying flesh. This effect is sometimes only modest, but easily
enough to
give a result of 10 mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood. Such a result
was
found in one 13-year-old. The expert at the time suggested that
such a
level, although negligible, was equivalent to having had "a couple
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of pints
the night before". And people wonder why the families are still so
angry.
The problems with the alcohol sampling and testing go much farther.
Many
experts regard the tests as fundamentally flawed, particularly as
no
corroborating samples (usually urine or eye tissue) were taken. On
the
basis of results that were at best inaccurate and at worst totally
misleading, and in full knowledge that the Taylor inquiry had
dismissed
alcohol as a significant contributing factor, it was decided to
spend two
whole days at the inquests on this irrelevancy.
They even got in a statistician, who was forced to speculate, by
using the
post-mortem results, on how many of the crowd had been drinking.
Local
publicans were called as witnesses and gave evidence of fans buying
and
drinking beer before the match. The significance of this is lost on
m e . I
already know that some people have a beer before going to a match.
They do
the same, but with different beverages, when attending Wimbledon
and at the
opera. If dozens were crushed to death on Centre Court, or trampled
during
an aria, I wonder whether the 'alcohol issue1 would have been
flagged up so
strongly.
At the end of the two days it no longer mattered that, even using
the
figures presented, hardly anyone had been too drunk to drive. The
mud had
been thrown, and some of it had stuck.
No one seriously suggests that the deaths at Hillsborough were
deliberate.
But what happened afterwards, the monumental arrogance displayed by
some,
and the "Promotion of Myth" as Professor Phil Scraton called it in
the
title of his book, No Last Rights, was deliberate. I was warned by
my
medical defence body that the General Medical Council takes a "dim
view" of
doctors who criticise coroners1 verdicts (the same helpful people
also
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advised me not to get involved in this matter in any way whatever,
even
with unattributable remarks.) So it is perhaps best if I let people
draw
their own conclusions. But whatever is announced, Hillsborough is
not going
to go quietly away.
Someone from the South Yorkshire police said at the time of the
television
drama that it would achieve nothing other than to re-open wounds.
You
should be careful when using medical aphorisms in the presence of a
doctor.
I can say authoritatively that wounds, in order to be re-opened,
have to
have healed in the first place.
Yours sincerely
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This afternoon I listened on the radio to the statement of the Home
secretary on the results of the latest inquiry into the
Hillsborough
disaster. I was shocked and appalled that nothing further is to be
done. Whilst one can argue about the significance of available
evidence the bottom line for me is that as the home secretary
admitted, a grave injustice has been done to the victims and their
relatives and according to his statement nothing is to be done
about
this. Measures in the areas he mentioned are aimed only at
preventing a further injustice of this type. I must say that I'm
bitterly disappointed as I expected much better from this
government
and this home secretary.
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That decision was an absolute disgrace and I hope Jack Straw can
sleep at
night with the death of 96 people and the grief of thousands
weighing on his
mind. Then again the decision just shows what a heartless,
spineless
uncaring, incompetent bastard he really is so I'm sure he doesn't
give a toss.
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as delighted with the way we adapted
Luton's artificial pitch last weekend, it
s another big test of our character and
cipline and we came through it superbly.
)nly two other sides — Manchester Un-
d and Nottingham Forest - have man-
:d to win on the Kenilworth Road plastic
far this season and that puts our perfor-
:nce into perspective,
adapting to the surface is difficult but 1
n't make a lot of fuss about the pitch
orehand because it would only have put
ra doubts in the player's minds.
Ve didn't train at Kenilworth Road before
game, in fact we hardly talked about
pitch at all and I think that positive
>roach paid off.
Ve took the game to them right from
start, we played the better football and
lought Jimmy Carter stuck his goals
iy quite superbly, particularly the first
t half-time we were 2-0 up and looked
nfortably in control but Danny Will's
penally gave them a glimmer of
>e and they came at us a bit during the
: half hour.
>ut we haven't been conceding too many
ils lately, and 1 was pleased with the way
defended against Luton, especially
:n you consider that we had two 20-
r-olds in the back four,
hat brings me round nicely to David
impson, who has been voted Barclays
ng Eagle Of The Month for the south
I south east region and will collect his
ird before the start of today's game,
is the second time this season that one
>ur youngsters has collected the award
Han Home was September's recipient
nd that can augur well for the future,
igratulations Dave, keep it up!
Xlv
With Nottingham Forest beating
Arsenal at Highbury last Saturday the first
Division Championship is boiling up nicely,
nobody is going to run away with the title
this season and that has got to be good
for the game.
At the start of the season most people
made us odds on favourites for relegation!
Well we've proved them wrong and I am
delighted that at this late stage of the season
we are still heavily involved in the title
race.
This afternoon we renew our rivalry with
Graham Taylor's Aston Villa side who
were promoted from the Second Division
with us last season.
We drew 2-2 at Villa Park on the opening
day of the season and were beaten 3-1 up
there in the Second Round of the
Littlewoods Cup — a result that we will be
looking to avenge this afternoon.
finally a big vote of thanks to everybody
who turned up at The Den for last
weekend's screen show, and for our midweek
friendly against Servette.
We have enjoyed marvellous support
away from home this season, and we certainly
missed your backing at Kenilworth
Road where the game was played out in
near silence.
The conditions for the Servette game
were absolutely appalling, and I reckon
everybody who braved the driving rain deserves
a gold medal.
1 thought it was an interesting clash in
styles and 1 certainly enjoyed watching the
great Kail Heinz Rummenigge, although
if it had been a League game 1 don't think
I would have been too happy with some of
our defending!
Thanks again for your marvellous support
enjoy today's game.
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Lord Mellish
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Reg Burr
Vice-Chairm an
Peter Mead
D irectors
Brian Mitchell
Jeff Bumige
Cllr. Dnvc Sullivat
Team M anager
John Dbcherty
Chiel Executive Secretary
Graham llorlop ’
A ssistant Secretary
Carol Harris
A ssista n t M anager
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Peter Melville lift
Dr. Daniel Karon

Meet the Manager:
GRAHAM TAYLOR
There were tim es during the early weeks of last season
when Graham Taylor wondered if he had been
crazy to give up the security of his jo b a t Watford
to take on the enorm ous challenge of rebuilding
A ston Villa.
In partnership with E lton John. Mr Taylor hac
lifted W atford from the Fourth to the First Divisior
and could have had a jo b for life at Vicarage Road
"But after ten years, I felt the time was right both
for m e and the club, to m ake a change," he said.
Happily, he soon g ot his Villa Park problems sorted
out and Villa eventually finished runners-up to the
Lions in the Second Division, thus regaining their
First Division status at the first attem pt
In his playing days Mr Taylor was full-back, making
his League debut for Grimsby Town in 1963/64. His
footballing lessons soon began for Grimsby were
relegated to the Third Division at the end o f his first
season.
They suffered a further drop in 1968 and that was
when he left to join Lincoln City. The Red Imps were
also a Fourth Division club and they rem ained at that
level until the end of his playing days.
But his qualities of leadership were recognised and
he was appointed team-captain. [ndeed, the Lincoln
board were so im pressed that it didn't even give him
the chance of any sort of managerial apprenticeship.
As soon as he retired in 1973 he was offered the
m anager's post!
He soon produced a successful side but learned
how to accept disappointm ent Lincoln looked certain
of promotion in 1975 when they were fourth in
the tabie, level on points with fifth club Chester,
who had com pleted their fixtures.
Lincoln lost 2-3 at Southport and that was ju st
enough to m ake their goal-average inferior to C hester's.
So they m issed promotion.
But the following season Lincoln created a new
League record of 74 points to take theFourth Division
Championship.
After establishing the d u b in the Third Division,
Mr Taylor was persuaded to take what appeared to
be a retrograde step in joining Fourth Division Watford.
W atford were transferred under his leadership
and they eventually achieved First Division status.
They also finished runners-up both in the F.A. Cup
and in the First Division.
PAUL BIRCH In 1980 Paul was a m em ber of the
Youth Team which won the FA Youth Cup and Southern
Junior Floodlit Cup.
Paul's breakthrough to the senior team may have
given him only a glimpse but it was enough to earn
him a medal as a substitute in the European Super
Cup decider against B arcelona at Villa Park in
Januaiy 1983.
Seven m onths later at the start of the 83-84 season
came Paul's debut in the Football League in a 1*0
win over Sunderiand.
He has since developed into a valuable member
of the first team squad playing m ost of his m atches
on the right hand side of midfield.
LEE BUTLER nearly team ed up with Graham Taylor
when he w as a sixteen year old schoolboy and went
for trials with W atford. Unfortunately those trials
cam e to nothing but wheted Lee's appetite for a
chance with a League Club. That chance cam e with
Lincoln City who took him on as a non contract
player and then eventually as a professional in 1986.
There was a sour ending to his First full season in
League football when Lincoln were relegated from
the Fourth Division, however his talent was noted by
a num ber of league Clubs. As the 1987/88 season
was about to open, Lee travelled to Villa Park to
com plete a £ 8 5 ,0 0 0 transfer.
GORDON COWAINS Gordon cam e through the Villa
apprentice system and reached full professional
status in August 1976. He played for the first team
at the age of 17 and won a League Cup winners
medal in 1977.
Established him self as a regular m em ber of the
first team playing the majority of his matches in a
central or left hand side midfield position.
During a pre season tournam ent in Spain Gordon
fractured his right leg and m issed the whole of the
1983/84 season.
Made his come-back to the first team on the opening
day of the following campaign making 30 appearances
in his familiar Ho. 10 shirt prior to his transfer
to Italy in the sum m er of 1985.
Joined Bari together with striker Paul R ideout
for a combined fee of £ 850 ,0 00. His first season
abroad ended in Bari being relegated to the Second
Division where he stayed for the following two years.
His exile was ended when Graham Taylor made
a move to bring him back to Villa Park and on 21
June 1988 he signed a three year contract to complete
a £ 2 5 0 ,0 0 0 transfer.
He has represented his countiy a t Youth, Under
21 and 'B' team levels as well as obtaining several
full England caps and his other honours include holding
the title of Robinsons Barley Water player of the
year award, winning League Championship, European
Championship and European Super Cup winners
medals.
G ordon will be hoping that a return to the English
prem ier division will enable him to display his cultured
left foot assist Villa to establish themselves as
a major force and gain England recognition once
again.
STEVE SIMMS Started his football career with
L eicester City as an apprentice and after establishing
him self as a regular in the City team he went on
to win England Under-21 and 'B' caps to add to his
Youth caps.
fn December 1978 he joined Watford, then in Division
3, for a club record fee at the time for
£ 1 7 5 ,0 0 0 . He assisted the 'Hornets' to promotions
into the top flight and in 1981 his consistent fine
displays in the heart of the Watford defence earned
hirn the Watford Player of the Season award.
He joined N otts C ounty in Septem ber 1984 for a
£ 5 0 ,0 0 0 fee and after spending two years away he
returned to W atford for the sam e fee.
When Villa Manager, Graham Taylor, learned of
Sim 's availability during June 1987 he had no hesitation
in signing him for the sum of £ 5 0 ,0 0 0 .
His experience and inspiration proved invaluable
in Villa's plight to gain a place back in Division 1
during the early m onths of last season.
KEVIN GAGE Gage joined his hom e club W imbledon
as an apprentice upon leaving school and in
1980/81 his first season at the Club, he m ade his
League baptism playing in a midfield position.
The appearance was m ade only a few weeks after
celebrating his 17th birthday and he is currently the
youngest ever Don's debut player.
He quickly established him self as a m em ber of the
first team squad and proved his versatility by appearing
in eveiy outfield shirt for the senior team.
Assisted W im bledon to gain promotion from the
Fourth Division through to the First and holds the
distinction of scoring in all four Divisions.
During the last couple o f seasons his tackling ability
and speed have seen him settle into a fine attacking
right back.
Joined Villa on 13th July in a £ 1 0 0 ,0 0 0 transfer
and was ever present last season. Holds 5 England
Youth Caps.
ALAN McINALLY Followed his father by choosing to
go into football upon leaving school.
He joined Ayr U nited at the age of 17 as a part
time professional while holding onto a position as
an aircraft engineer. While with Ayr for/our years his
contract expired and M clnally had Ifie opportunity
of joining C eltic. On 12 May 1984 a t the age of 21
he signed for C eltic in a £ 1 1 0 ,0 0 0 transfer.
During the first eighteen m onths with C eltic, Mcl-
naU ^s regular football was with the second string
winning all of the Reserve Team honours available.
When he was beginning to establish him self in the
First Team, Graham Taylor, the then W atford Manager,
tried to sign him but C eltic refused to part
company.
The Premier League winners medal won in 1985/
86 was followed in the next season by a Skol Cup
runners up medal.
Graham Taylor had been keeping tabs on Mel-
naily and when his contract ended at C eltic in June
1987 Villa led a possie of clubs after him which included
two European teams.
Taylor's patience was rewarded when he finally
landed his man for £ 2 2 0 ,0 0 0 on 20 July 1987.
Missed the start of last season due to a knee injuiy,
but when he broke into the side in Septem ber his
forceful style of play m ade him an instant hit with
the fans.
STUART GRAY Graham Taylor clinched the signature
of Stuart for £ 1 7 5 ,0 0 0 in November 1987
when he was signed from Barnsley. While with
B arnsley, Stuart filled a num ber of positions and
was playing a regular role a t centre half ju st prior to
his move. He has settled into a role on the left hand
side of midfield for Villa and on his debut for the
club at Bradford City he scored with two scorching
drives.
Prior to playing for Barnsley, Stuart was with N ottingham
F orest who were then the European
Champions in 1981 when he m ade the breakthrough
to the first team.

ILLAN EVANS Evans was playing football part-time
as a striker with D unferm line A thletic when Villa
Irst spotted him. Upon joining Villa for a bargain
50,000 in May 1977 he switched to the centre of
e defence and has gone on from strength to
rength.
At the start of the 1983/84 season Allan was m ade
am skipper. The 1986/87 season saw him reach a
ndmark of over 400 appearances for the club.
At the start of last season he picked u p a pre-season
jury and was not seen in the first team until Mew
ar's Day when Villa beat Hull 5-0. Me then kept
5 place in the side which m ade him ever present
1988.
The 1988/89 season, his 1 1th with A ston Villa
II see his loyalty to the club rewarded with a Benefit
stimonial.
MARTIN KEOWN Keown was already familiar with
the Villa Park scene even before he travelled up from
London for transfer talks during the sum m er of 1986.
He first came to the club as a prospective apprentice.
However he decided to join Arsenal from school
and showed great prom ise at both centre back and
full back for the Youth and Reserve team s going on
to win England Youth Caps.
In February 1985 he went on loan to B righton
and won a regular place a t right back. During the
1985/86 season he again went on a loan period to
B righton but was recalled to Arsenal and then m ade
a num ber of appearances in the first Division at the
centre of their defence.
During the sum m er of 1986 his contract with Arse-
nal expired and at this stage he decided to join A ston
Villa. The fee was determined by a League tribunal
for a total fee of £200,000 to be spread over a
number of appearances for his new Club. After making
his Villa debut a t right back he quickiy established
himself in the side as a regular centre back and his
form quickly earned him a call up into the England
Under 21 team and has since been a regular squad
member.
He was an ever present in the side during our
promotion cam paign last season, until an Injury
forced him to m iss the last two gam es and end of
season tournam ent with the England Under 21's.
DAVID PLATT After a successful apprenticeship,
David started his professional career at M anchester
United the team he supported a s a boy. He was only
six into his first contract when he left, the glam our
of Old Trafford for a rather m ore spartan life in the
Fourth Division with Crewe Alexandra.
David's record of 55 goals in three years at Crewe
carried the stam p of a natural gpalscorer, which was
served by a growing list of clubs taking an interest
in his future.
Villa m anager, Graham Taylor, finally had a reputed
offer of £ 2 0 0 ,0 0 0 for him accepted in February
1988 and P la tt scored in each of his first three
League gam es for Villa. At the end of the 1987/88
season he was drafted into the England Under 21
squad for a tournam ent In France.
CHRIS PRICE An attacking right back who started
his professional career at H ereford in 1977.
During a decade at H ereford he was voted the
Club's Flayer of the Year and regularly chosen in the
P.F.A. Fourth Division representative side.
In the Sum m er o f 1986 he joined Blackburn Rover
s for £ 2 5 ,0 0 0 and his successful perform ances
at this higher level were once again rewarded by his
inclusion in the 2nd Division P.F.A. representative
side.
Stepped into the First Division by signing for A ston
Villa in a £ 1 5 0 ,0 0 0 deal in May 1988.
NIGEL SPINK Joined the club from Chelm sford
City in February 1977 after being on W est Ham
U nited's books during his school days. After making
only one previous First Team appearance he won a
European Championship winners medal in 1982
when he cam e on in the Final for the injured J immy
R im m er and gave a confident performance.
N igel played only 23 tim es for Villa's First Team
the following season and then won his first England
cap on the close season tour of Australia.
He was then knocked back by injuries for a couple
of seasons but his fine form in 1986/87 saw him
being pushed forward once again for International
recognition.
Last season's promotion back to the top flight was
coupled with his testimonial year.

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FLASH
BACK
5 YEARS AGO:
A first-half goal from Wayne Biggins
sent the Lions to defeat in a Third
Division game at Burnley.
A goal from Steve McMahon, eight
minutes from time, gave Villa a 1-0
win over Nottingham Forest at Villa
Park.
Liverpool's 0-2 defeat at Southampton
on Friday evening gave Manchester
United the chance to take
over at the top of the first Division.
They did so in style. Arnold Muhren
scored twice against Arsenal at Old
Trafford with Frank Stapleton also
scoring against his former club. A
last-minute goal from Bryan Robson
made in 4-0 to United.
Gary Lineker got only one of the
goals as Leicester crushed West
Ham 4-1 in the First Division.
Mark Hateley and Neil Webb -
who were both to become England
players - scored in Portsmouth's 3-0
at Barnsley in Division Two. Alan
Biley was their other scorer.
10 YEARS AGO:
Our Second Division game at Oldham,
and Villa's First Division match
at Manchester City, were among
many games called off because of
bad weather. Defender David Peach
gave Southampton a 1-0 interval
lead over Nottingham Forest in the
League Cup Final at Wembley. But
Forest hit back with two goals from
Gany Birtles and one from Tony
Woodcock before Nick Holmes got
another for Southampton. Forest
won 3-2.
Frank Worthington and Neil
McNab scored for Bolton as they
drew 2-2 at Coventry in a First Division
game.
Geny Gow was on the mark for
B Y T O N Y PULLEIN j
Bristol City who drew T-TatTibme to
Middlesbrough in Division One.
David Armstrong scored for the
Boro. Goals from Mark Lawrenson
and Geny Ryan earned Brighton a
2-0 home win over Sheffield United
which took them to the top of the
Second Division.
Ted MacDougall's goal gave Bournemouth
a 1-0 win at Torquay in
Division Four.
15 YEARS AGO:
Alf Wood and Derek Smethurst got
the goals in our 2-1 home win over
Bolton in Division Two. John Byrom
replied for the Trotters. Sammy Morgan's
goal was sufficient to bring Villa
victory in their Second Division game
at Bristol City.
The two top teams drew 56,003
fans to Anfield where a goal from
Steve Heighway gave Liverpool victory
over Leeds. It was Leeds' second
defeat of the season but they still led
Liverpool by six clear points.
John Ritchie hit a hat-trick in
Stoke's 4-1 win over Southampton.
Duncan McKenzie scored both
goals in Nottingham Forest's 2-0
Second Division win over Blackpool.
20 YEARS AGO:
We maintained our challenge for
promotion from the Second Division
with a 1-0 home win over Sheffield
United on the Friday evening, Keith
Weller scoring the only goal.
Villa were held to 1-1 at home by
Blackburn in Division Two. Dave
Simmons got their goal.
There was a huge upset in the
League Cup final played on a quagmire
at Wembley. Third Division Swindon
led Arsenal with a Roger Smart
goal until four minutes from the end
when Bobby Gould equalised. But
two goals in extra-time from Don
Rogers gave Swindon a 3-1 win.
With Leeds not playing, Liverpool
closed the gap on them at the top of
the table to six points by winning 2-0
at Sutherland, lan St John and Alun
Evans scoring their goals.
A crowd of 60,438 at Stamford
Bridge watched Chelsea defeat Manchester
United 3-2 with goals from
David Webb, Tommy Hutchinson
and Bobby Tambling.
25 YEARS AGO:
A goal from Roy Senior gave us a 1-0
win at Shrewsbury and eased our
relegation worries at the wrong end
of Division Three.
Aston Villa's game was, called off
as Villa Park was being used for the
F.A. Cup semi final between Preston
and Swansea. Jim McLaughlin gave
the Swans an interval lead but Alex
Dawson equalised with a penalty and
Tony Singleton snatched a late winner
for Preston.
In the other semi-final two goals
from Ronnie Boyce and one from
Geoff Hurst gave West Ham a 3-1
win over Manchester United. Denis
Law got the United goal.
Tottenham were not playing in Division
One and this enabled Everton
to draw level with them at the top of
the table. A hat-trick from Fred Pickering
went a long way towards sending
Nottingham Forest to defeat at
Qoodison Park. Dennis Stevens (2)
and Roy Vernon also scored as Everton
won 6-1.
Leeds moved to the top of the
Second Division with a 3-1 victory at
Middlesbrough.

ILLWALL v ASTON VILLA
devious League Results
Home Away
8 1-2 1-3
9 0-1 1-1
0 2-0 2-2
3 1-1 0-1
4 1-1 0-0
5 1-3 0-3
8 2-1 2-1
9 2-2
SUMMARY
P W D L F A Pts
7 2 2 3 8 9 7f
8 1 4 3 8 13 7f
15 3 6 6 16 22 14f
5 pts for win from 1981/82.
S ea son
y S ea son
yy Ted W ilding
1 9 5 0 - 5 1
PART II
i F.A. Cup run saw Millwall
h e Fourth Round for the first
nee 1937.
vail met Crystal Palace at
st Park in the First Round, but
Tie was abandoned due to fog.
re-match The Lions won 4-1.
jund Two The Lions were held
rd Division (N) Bradford P A .
"he Den, but won the replay 1-0.
3rd Round Millwall travelled to
.ondon to meet Q.P.R. The
ran the tie 4-3 with Neary scor-
vice against his old club.
Il's cup run came to an end at
;n when First Division Fulham
/ a single goal. Att. 42,170.
club played a series of Festival
:s in May 1951. They first drew
home to H.F.C. Haarlem and
then defeated Dundee Utd. 2-1 (H)
and RSC Anderlecht 2-1 (H).
Millwall also beat Arsenal 2-0 at
The Den in a friendly.
In the Kent County Cup Final
Millwall trounced neighbours
Chariton 6-1 at The Den.
RESULTS
Aldershot 46 15 10 21 56 88 40
Leyton0. 46 15 8 23 53 75 38
Torquay U. 46 14 9 23 64 81 37
Northampton 46 10 16 20 55 67 36
Gillin^iam 46 13 9 24 69101 35
Watford 46 9 11 26 54 88 29
C. Palace 46 8 11 27 33 84 27
APPEARANCES
H A Bowler G. 42 Jones J. 19
Aldershot 1-0 1-2 Brewer A. 1 Jones L. 3
Bournemouth 3-0 0-1 Constantine J. 42 Lyons E. 1
Brighton 1-1 3-2 Finlayson M. 23 Mansfield R 2
Bristol C. 5-3 1-2 Fisher G. 44 Monkhouse A. 6
Bristol R. 1-0 0-1 Hencher K. 11 Morgan S. 45
Colchester U. 2-0 0-3 Hinton E. 22 Morton J. 1
Crystal Palace 1-0 1-1 Hartbum J. 14 Neary F. 40
Exeter C. 5-0 1-0 Hodgetts F. 8 Quinn D. 26
Gillingham 4-3 3-4 Hurrell W. 7 Reeves F. 39
Ipswich T. 4-0 1-2 Jardine A. 21 Short J. 45
Leyton Orient 3-1 2-0 Johnson J. 43 Thrippleton A. 1
Newport Co. 2-4 3-2
Northampton T. 2-1 2-1 GOALSCORERS (League)
Norwich C. 1-1 1-2 Constantine 26, Neaiy 19, Morgan 11,
Nottingham F. 1-1 0-2 Johnson 8, Jones (J.) 6, Hartbum 2,
Port Vale 2-2 1-0 Hodgetts 2, Short 2, Fisher (G.) 1, Hur­
Plymouth A. 1-1 2-2 rell 1, Jones (L.) 1, Monkhouse 1.
Reading 1-3 1-1 Total - 80
Southend U. 1-1 3-0
Swindon T. 1-0 1-0
Torquay U. 4-1 1-2
Walsall 2-0 0-4
Watford 4-0 0-0
Bristol R
DIVISION THREE (SOUTH)
Bristol C.
Newport C
Port Vale
Brighton
Exeter C.
Walsall
P W D L F A Pts
46 30 10 6 110 40 70
46 25 14 7 82 45 64
46 21 15 10 88 53 57
46 24 9 13 85 55 57
46 23 10 13 80 57 56
46 20 15 11 64 42 55
46 21 10 15 92 69 52
46 23 6 17 69 58 52
46 22 7 17 65 57 51
46 20 11 15 64 59 51
46 19 9 18 77 70 47
46 16 13 17 60 65 45
46 13 17 16 71 79 43
46 18 6 22 62 85 42
46 15 10 21 52 62 40
46 14 12 20 63 76 40
46 18 4 24 55 67 40
WARNING
At the beginning of the season
more than 110 League grounds in
England, Wales and Scotland will
be equipped with CLOSED CIR­
CUIT TELEVISION which has
been funded by The Football Trust.
It is there to increase crowd
safety and to help the police. Recording
facilities enable film and
photographs to be take of disorder,
which may subsequently be used
in a court of law.
CLOSED CIRCUIT
TELEVISION

THIS MATCH IS ALL TICKET
SATURDAY 8TH APRIL 1989
BARCLAYS LEAGUE DIVISION ONE
v MANCHESTER UNITED
KICK-OFF 3.00 P.M.
O ur h o m e m atch v MANCHESTER UNITED will be ALL
TICKET'. Tickets will b e available from TUESDAY 14TH
MARCH an d m em b ers have up to 20th March to claim
their tickets. Tickets can b e purchased from the Club Of-
fices during norm al office h o u rs Monday to Friday. Subject
to ticket availability, the Club Offices will b e o p en late to
7 .00 p.m .':on Thursday 6th April and Friday 7th April. For
this m atch the m em bership area at Ilderton Road will b e
closed an d we apologise to m em bers who u se this area
for any inconvenience. We ask Millwall su p p o rters to use
Cold Blow Lane turnstiles a s Ilderton Road en d will be
allocated to M anchester United. S eason ticket holders
please com e through th e turnstiles in the usual way. NO
TICKETS WILL BE ON SALE DURING TODAY'S MATCH.

LIONESSES TITLE
TRIUMPH
WALL Lionesses clinched their first
Home Counties League, Division One
ecently, after a hard-fought 1-0 victory
Red Star Southampton.
/as a case of fourth time lucky for the
sses who had finished runners up dur-
leir previous three Home Counties cam-
is.
ingly it was top scorer Lynn McCormick
scored the decisive goal against Red
her 44th of the season,
ids off John Docherty - she's not for
Cormick had also been on target during
jonesses' 2-0 victory over reigning
pions Friends of Fulham, but although
lot both goals Pauline Cope was the
Hiding player with a Huriock style dis-
)f tackling and committment
it be something about the number four
; day after clinching the League title the
sses left to compete in an international
ament in Bulgaria, and well have full
s of how they got on in the Wimbledon
amme.
MHGRATULATIONS PAUL
VDIC Hereford fan Paul Stewart will
>lete his tour of all England's Football
Je grounds at The Den this afternoon,
id has seen Hereford play on over
he 92 grounds he’s visited, and has
iiled up a pretty formidable collection
Dgrammes.
ngratulations Paul and we hope that
:njoy your afternoon at The Den.
NTED—YOUR MEMORIES
KING Pictures, a Brixton-based comare
putting together a film about
all FC and it's supporters - and they
your help!
/e you. got any snapshots, old prog-
les, home movies, flags, hats,
es, records, newspaper cuttings or
ling else you think may be of interest
: film makers?
I anyone's dad or granded watch the
during their early days on the Isle Of
, or when The Den was first opened
16.
I you watch the team regularly during
930's, 50's or even 1960's?
ou think you can help why not contact
ing Pictures at 245A Coldharbour
Brixton SW9 8RR or phone 01 274
MEHMETS LEAGUE CHANCE
FORMER Lions star Dave Mehmet could
be back in the Football League next season,
if his new club Maidstone manage to
clinch the GM Vauxhall Conference title.
Mehmet joined Maidstone from Fisher
for £5000recently, and celebrated by scoring
their winner during last weekends 2-1
victory at Yeovil.
That kept Maidstone one point ahead
of Kettering, who had another Den old
boy Robbie Cooke to thank for their 2-1
win over our Dockland neighbours Fisher.
YOUNG REPORTERS AND
PHOTOGRAPHERS
COMPETITION
MATTHEW Shaw is the third person
through to the final ofour Young Reporters
And Photographers competition which we
are running in conjunction with the South
London Press.
Matthew was one of four budding young
reporters who watched our 1-0 victory over
Coventiy, and his write-up certainly didn't
pull any punches.
'Millwall didn't play with the confidence
they should have after their 2-0 win over
Middlesbrough four days earlier,' he
wrote. The first half was a complete waste
of time with both keepers resorting to the
long ball game.'
Another four youngsters in each category
will be at today's game and the eventual
winners will have their work published
in the South London Press.
DEEPEST SYMPATHIES
TED Honey, one of MiHwall's longest serving
supporters died recently aged 63.
Ted was bom on the Isle of Dogs in 1926
and supported the Lions for over 50 years.
A Lion of a man and a man of the Lions
he will be badly missed.
GROUND COLLECTION
FIRE SERVICES NATIONAL
BENEVOLENT FUND
PATRON:
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
The fund was created to deal with the
hardship arising from the 1939-45 War and
may be considered a memorial to the Firemen
and Firewomen who lost their lives
during that period.
That work is not yet finished but to it has
been added the even greater task of helping
all serving and former members of the
service in time of need.
In 1983, the service was allocated an official
flag day and has now become an annual
event. We are indebted to the people
of London for their support and in particular
to Millwall Football Club Officials and
Supporters for allowing us to make part of
our local collection within their ground
today. .
HELPING THE GAME
The Football Trust receives £9 million from
the Spotting-the-Ball competition run by
Littlewoods. Vernons and Zetters and
spends it all on projects which benefit football
throughout the United Kingdom.
Since 1979 it has been committed to the
development of the game at every level
and its broad and varying initiatives have
ranged from essential safety work at Tottenham
to social work at Toxteth, refurbishment
at Wembley to repairs at Welling,
closed circuit television at all League dubs
to community facilities at Oldham Athletic,
transport improvements at Sheffield Wednesday
to storm damage in the South East
of England, from policing costs at Hull City
to an artificial pitch at Hyde United. *
1988-89 will see The Football Trust increase
its commitment by investing further
sums in closed circuit television, transport
facilities for supporters and projects to bring
Football League clubs closer to their local
community.
SAFETY FIRST
Football grounds in England and Wales
have reached their highest ever level of
safety thanks to the £23,671,425 invested
by the Football Grounds Improvement
Trust since 1975.
Almost every League clubs has been
assisted with essential safety work and
further substantial sums have been
spent to enable them to improve
facilities. In the past year alone FGIT
grants to Football League clubs totalled:
£
Safety
2,254,723
Improvements 770,561
In addition to its safety programme,
FGIT has also allocated £1.5 million to
built or improve family and disabled
facilities at League grounds during 1988.

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WATCH MASCOT
This afternoon we welcome 12 year old Steven Redman as our Match Mascot. Steven,
who lives in Peckham, attends Bacons Secondary School and tells us that his favourite
players are Teny Huriock and Ian Dawes. < / »
MiUwall's ever-expanding community empire is stretching its horizons even further
in the next few weeks, and has signed on yet more schools! As you know, Gaiy
Stem pel, Ron Bell and a very select bunch of the Millwall players travel from borougta-
to-borough coaching football at various schools. After the forthcoming Easter holiday
their coaching network will include the Christian School, Ashby Mill School and
Langboume School — so if you go to any of those schools, ENJOY IT! The Team will
also be starting an eight-week course next month for the young offenders at the
Sherboume Centre.
Talking of Soccer Schools, Gaiy and Ron will be running a special SOCCER CLINIC in the second week of the
ster holiday - Monday the 3rd April to Friday 7th April inclusive. The venue is Senegal Fields, which you can
d in Zampa Road (off Ilderton Road), S.E.16. It will run from 2.30pm to 4.30pm every day, and is open to boys
D GIRLS between the ages of 8 and 16 inclusive. The week's course is absolutely FREE, and will include coaching
d visits by players and staff of Millwall F.C., certificates signed by Millwall players, competitions and, for just
, you can purchase our very exclusive high-quality SOCCER SCHOOL T-SHIRTS. Acceptance to the course is by
PLICATIOM OMLY. You MUST get a form from Gaiy or Ron at the club. Fill it in and return as soon as possible,
rou do not hear from us, you can assume that you have been accepted. However, PLEASE arrive wearing the
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Dne of the advantages of being a JUNIOR LION is that you can meet the junior supporters from other clubs,
member when Arsenal's Junior Gunners visited us last month? And our Junior Lions Girls' team beat their girls
-0!? We've got photos on sale from that special day (priced just £3.50) 6f all of the games we played that day.
ey are terrific action shots, so if you want to purchase any or just have a look, go and see Gaiy and Ron in their
ice. While we're on the subject of meeting other supporters,
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ar future. On May 3rd, we are taking two coaches to the reanged
Fixture at Nottingham Forest. We will leave at 3.30pm w/\ J
m Cold Blow Lane, and the prices - including a match ticket ^ r B
ire £8.00 for children and £10.00 for adults.
3efore that trip, our next port-of-call is at Sheffield Wednesday
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d will leave at 7am from Cold Blow Lane, returning at approx-
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in under 14's 11-a-side match, and an under 10's 11-a-side
me. The price, inclusive of the coach travel, a match ticket and
ich, is just £8.00 for children and adults. DONT FORGET -
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TALENTED Lions defender David Thompson w ill collect in fact the
been easy foi me to slot into the side was
The giant centre half has only made 13 first team ap
ances, but he has quickly established himself as one P^sli
Asataw 15-year-old Thompson s dream came true when
Newcastle offered ottered him a trial.
jf the But while his home town club dithered, Millwall moved
most promising young centre halves in the country. in with the ol ler of a guaranteed apprenticeship it he joined
Mind you, it has been a remarkable about turn in fortunes them on schoolboy forms.
for Thompson, who just seven months ago was wondering 'Newcastle treated me pretty badly really,' he explained.
'Uaii >Un/1 - VMnmi : J i.1__
pearances during Millwall's Second Division promotion
campaign, and was looking forward to life in the top flight.
But his hopes of becoming a first team regular nosedived
during the summer when Lions manager John Docherty
They have got a reputation for letting a lot of good young
p ayers slip through their fingers, but at Millwall it's a comp
etely different story.
They i know i— how important =------ - • i is to attract youngsters.
paid Spurs £220,000 for former Den apprentice Neil Ruddock.
'At the time I was really choked, I felt like crying,'admitted
Thompson. 'But it turned out to be the best thing that could
have happened.
'It made me work harder than ever and being included
for our first ever Division One game at Villa Park game me
a great lift.
The manager had spent quite a lot of money on Neil
Ruddock, but being picked for the Villa game proved that
no one was guaranteed a first team place.'
Thompson didn't get another first team opportunity until
January, when Docherty reshuffled his back four with Alan
McLeaiy moving from centre half to right back.
It was a calculated gamble by the Lions boss, but a gamble
which has paid off in spectacular fashion.
Danny Wilson's penalty at Kenilworth Road last weekend
is the only goal Millwall's re-organised back four have conceded
in over four hours of First Division football.
But Thompson modestly handed much of the credit for
Millwall's new found defensive security to his partner, Steve
Wood.
’He is definitely my player-of-the-year,' admitted
Thompson. ’Woody has been in great form all season and
he is tremendous to play alongside.
’Nothing ever seems to ruffle him and he has given me
a lot of good advice.
’Frank McLintock has done a lot of extra work with the
back four recently. He often keeps us behind for 15 minutes
or so after training and it is beginning to pay off.
’I think Alan McLeary has adapted superbly at right back
You've only got to look at the p resent first team squad to
see that with Teddy Sheiingham, Kevin O'Callaghan,
Sean Sparham, Alan McLeary, Keith Stevens, Dean Horrix,
Brian Home and myself all coming up through the
ranks."
That's why 1 had no hesitation in joining Millwall even
though they were in the Third Division when I signed school­
boy Iforms.
’All my friends and family back home are black and white,
but they all agreed it was the right decision.' ‘
With a Young Eagles award on his sideboard and a regular
place in the heart of Millwall's defence it certainly looks as
though Thompson made the right choice.
But the level-headed Qeordie is taking nothing for
granted!
’I've had a good run in the side lately, but 1 still don't
really regard myself as a first team regular, ' he stressed.
‘I know that if I want to keep my place I have got to
produce my best form week in week out I've been pleased
with the way I've played recently but I know I've still got a
lot to learn.'
The one match Thompson definitely doesn't want to miss
is Millwall's clash with Newcastle at St James Park on
May 6.
That's one game 1 desperately want to play ia even if it
means bribing John Docherty with a whole case of cigars,'
he joked.
’1 was substitute when we beat them 4-0 at The Den and
not getting on was very frustrating. I just hope 1 can make
up for it at St James' Park preferably with a hat-trick!'
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Up to and including 12 March 1989
HOME Goals AWAY Goals
Arsenal ; 28 7 4 2 2213 9 3 3 3 1 1 5 5 5
Norwich 27 7 6 2 20 15 8 2 2 20 13 53
MILLWALL 27 9 1 3 2 3 1 2 4 6 4 17 1946
Liverpool 25 5 5 2 14 7 6 4 3 22 13 42
Nottingham Forest 25 3 6 2 1? iO 7 5 2 24 1741
Coventry 27 7 2 4 20 r 7 4 6 4 15 1541
Manchester United 26 7 4 1 20 V ' 6 5 15 14 40
Derby 26 6 3 6 19 15 b ' 3 3 11 10 39
Wimbledon 26 8 2 4 19 13 3 0 6 13 18 38
Tottenham 28 6 5 4 25 21 3 5 5 16 17 37
Everton 26 6 5 2 2113 3 4 6 1 1 1 6 3 6
Aston Villa 28 6 4 4 20 16 1 6 7 15 2631
Middlesbrough 2 ? 6 5 3 19 18 2 2 9 12 25 31
Q.P.R. 27 4 3 5 12 10 3 6 6 14 15 30
Luton 26 5 5 3 20 13 2 3 8 8 20 29
Southampton 27 4 5 5 21 22 2 6 5 18 29 29
Charlton • 28 2 6 6 18 24 4 4 6 13 19 28
Sheffield Wed. 27 4 4 5 14 18 2 5 7 8 19 27
Newcastle 26 2 4 7 13 20 3 3 7 10 26 22
West Ham 25 1 5 7 12 23 3 2 7 9 19 19
ROLL CALL - APPEARANCES & GOALSCORERS
THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE SEASON 1988/89
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Appearances Goals Appearances Goals Appearances Goals
:& / r . / S 'K - ’■ \ (Max 26) : (Max8) ; (Max34f .
t. BRILEY 22 1 :; / 5(1) 2 2 /(1) 3
J. CARTER • 7(3) ;v'5 .. 3 1 10(3) * ■ 6
T.CASCARIN0 26 13 ■2 ;.' 33 15
I. DAWES r i; 22;Ci) 1 - 28(1) .-.■'.I.
B. H0RHE 26 - ■ 8 ■ r '• 34
T. HURL0CK 24 2 . 6 : 30 2
D.H0RR1X K D _ 2 - Q 2 k 3(1) 2
a LAWRENCE 9 - 2 11
A. McLEARY 26 1 8 — 34 1
JtO m iLAG flAKy V 26 5 5(1) - 31(1) is 4
N. RUDDOCK -(2 ) 1 3(1) 4 3(3)
D.SWLMAH 8(5) 4(1) 1 v 12(6!
T.SHERINGHAM V 25 8 7 4 32 12
S.SPARHAM 3 : ■■■.-Si.fi -(2) i'V? ^ 7 3 (2 ).k :'':;
K. STEVENS 16(1) '. - : 7 - 23(1) i. y
D. THOMPSON 7(1) i : ;:i ' '4 \ :1:" - 11(1) , l
S. WOOD 23 >:-5 , 28
D. MORGAN 6(1) : 10(1)
P. STEPHENSON 9(1) :\ : i y ;;-.:. 2 ' V';.. IV 11!D 0
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j Aug 27 Sat AstcxiVflfa : v A 2-2 9th 22,409 — ■
1 Sept 3 Sat DeibyCounty H 1-0 6th 13,040 =—
10 Sat Chariton Athletic
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24 Sat Norwich City A 2-2 : 3rd 16,616 ----
27 Tue Gfllfaflham (Lit Cup Rd 2 1st leg) H 3-0 ' 15,590 -
Oct 1 Sat Queen'sPdifcRangers H 3-2 1st 14,103 .----
l l Tue CfflIlngham(LitGupRd2^dleg} A 3-1 5,729 ----
15 Sat Govehfiy City A 0-0ij;2 ild 19,639 —
22 Sat Nottingham Forest . H 2-2
'V'-h--' 29 Sat Middtesbrouflh ; A 2 4 3rd 19,788 •----
I -‘•iffay 2 Wed Aston ViI!a(LitCupRd3) A 1-3 > 17,648 ----
5 S a tLutonToivxi.' ^ H 3- i J3rd:12550 ----
9 Wed Barnsley(Sirriod Cup R dl) H l - l 1 3,330 .----
12 Sat Liverpool A 1-1 4th 41,966 ,----
19 Sat Newcastle United H 4-0 3rd 15,767 ----
26 Sat Southampton A 2-2 3rd 15,925 ----
:■ 29 Tue LeedsUnfted(SimodCupRd2) H 2-0 ; 4,178 ----
1 Dec 3 Sat West Ham United H 0-1 V4&; 20U05 ----
10 Sat. i TottenhamHotspur . A 0-2 5th 27,660 ----
117 Sat Sheffield Wednesday H 1-0 - 3rd :lU 9 7 ----
20 Tue Evert£m(SimodCuf>Rd3) A 0-2 : V"— 3,703 ----
26 Mon Wimbledon A o-i: 4th 11,278 ----
31 Sat: DerbyCounty A 1-0 'K ;*d :lftl5 4 :—
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I Jan 2 Non Chariton Athletic I T T o 3rd 17,025 .----
7 Sat LutonToim(F.A.CupRd3) H 3-2 : 12,504 -----
&;14 Sat i Manchest»0rated A 0-3 4 tti 40,830 .-----
22 Sun Nonrich City H 2-3 7tll:;l« 5,687 '-----
29 Sun "EJv»pb6i(r^CupRd4) H 0-1 23,615 -----
1 fe b : 4 Sat C ^^'sferkR ange^s A 21 “ t 5i i: 2,391 -----
11 Sat Aisenal
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H 2-Ofri 5th .11,396
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| Mar 11 Sat Luton Town A 2-1- 3ki 7,838 -----
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Slanan Dawes Hurlock Wood Mdeary Lawrence Briley Sheringham(l) Cascarino Otallaghan Stevens Carter (11)
: Salman Dawes Wood HcLeajy Lawrence , BriJey(l) Sheringham(l) Cascarmo{l> O'Callaghan Stems ? Ruddock
Salman Dawes Huriock Wood Mdeary . - Lawrence Briley - Sheringham (S irK a H E S O'Cailaghan Straus (2) * Carter (7)
I^S teveretlS Dawes Hurkxk Wood Mdeary :• Lawrence Briley Sheringham Cascarino (1) O'Callaqhan(l) Carter 1 Thompson
l€;Stevens'::#1 Dawes Huriock Wood . McLeaiy - Lawrence Ruddock(2) Sheringham (1) Cascarino Otallaghan .Ionian Salman
Dawes Hurtock(l) Wood ilMdleary?i>; Lawrence Morgan .'Sheringham X asdrm bW i OXallaqhan Silman ' Carter (7)
Dawes Hurkxk Wood McLeary Ifotm Monpi Sheringham (2) Cascarino Salman(l) iSdfflharif(7)al Thompson
Dawes Hurlock Wood - Mcteary - Salman Morgan Sheringham Cascarino O'Callaghan Sparham ! Ruddock
S J fe S to i^ if Dawes Hurlock Wood McLeaiy - Lawrence Briley Sheringham(l) Cascarino OCMaqhan RuddocK(l)(7> * Salman (5)
Sterns Dawes Hurlock Salman ' McLeary " Lawrence Briley Sheringham(l) CascarinoO) O'Cailaghan Ruddock(Il) % Morgan
• ^Stevens Dawes - Morgan Thompson - McLeary Salman ■ Briley Sheringham • Cascarino Ruddock(l) Sparham O'Cailaghan (2)
Stevens Dawes (1) Morgan Thompson McLeaiy Lawrence Briley Shen’ngham(l) Cascarino O'Callaghan (1) Salman Ruddock
SfStevens - Salman • Morgan Thompson McLeaiy Lawrence Hurlock Horrix {2) Huddock(l) Carter BrO»(l)!4) Sparham(8)
||%5tevens Dawes Huriock Wood McLeaiy Stephenson(l) Briley Sheringham Cascarino O'Callaghan Salman (3) 'Morgan (11)
• Stevens Dawes Hurkxk(l) Wood iM cLea^ilH itt Stephenson Briley Sheringham Cascarmo(l) O'Cailaghan (1) IS Salman Thompson
M S te v a is ^ fl Dawes Hurlock Wood McLeary Stephenson Briley Sheringham(l) Cascarino O'Callaghan(l) Morgan Ruddock
Stevens Dawes liurlock Thompson McLeary Stephenson Brileyil) Sheringham tO sO TtW itfS O'Callaqhan Moripi Salman
>gj5tererBf#'^ Dawes hurlock Wood McLeary Stephenson Briley ' .Shermgham CascariE, O'Callaghan Thompson Salman (3)
Stevens Dawes Hurlock Wood ‘ McLeaiy Stephenson Briley • Sheringham Cascarino O'Callaghan Ruddock Salman
Stevens Dawes ? Hurlock Wood IlM e L e a ry iil Stephenson Briley Sheringham (1) Cascarino O'Callaqhan Salman .Ruddock
■ ^Steverei;3 # Dawes . Huriock Wood McLeary Stephenson Briley Sheringham Cascarino O'Callaghan Salman (7) Ruddock(ll)
Stevens Dawes r Hurlock Wood McLeary Stephenson Briley - Sheringham Cascarino * O'Callaghan ‘M/mail Horrix (7)
Stevens Dawes Hurlock Wood ■ McLeaiy Stephenson Briley Shenngham(l) > Cascarino O'Callaghan Salman Lawrence
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Stevens Dawes huriock Wood McLeaiy Stephenson Briley Sheringham Cascarino O'Callaghan Salman (2) Thompson (7) (1)
Stevens Salman Morgan Wood McLeaiy - Carter(l) Briley Sheringham (1) Cascarino(l) O'Callaghan Surl«uii Horrix
Stevens Salman S Hurlock Wood McLeaiy - Carter Morgan Sheringham Cascarino O'Callaghan Dawes(2) Stephenson (4)
Dawes £ Hurlock Wood ‘ McLeaiy , Carter(l) Morgan .Sheringham Cascarino(l) O'Callaghan Horn* Thompson
Dawes Huriock Wood - Mdeaiy Carter M ey . Sheringham Cascarino O'Callaghan Horrix Morgan
Thompson Dawes 5 Hurlock Wood Mcleay . Carter(l) . Briley Honix Cascarino(l) O'Callaghan bgurium -Stephenson
Meteaiy Dawes Thompson Wood Carter (1) ' : Briley ; Sheringham Cascarino O'Callaghan ifiB W ra g ® . 'Spartan
Mcleary Sparham Morgan Thompson Wood Carter . Brileyii! Sheringham Cascarino O'Callaghan Hmix Salman (4)
HcLeaty Spartiam Morgan Thompson - Wood Carter _ M ey ’ Sheringham Cascarino(I) O'Callaghan Horn* Salman (4)
MeLeaiy . Sparham Huriock Thompson Wood Carter Biriey Sheringham Cascarino O'Callaghan Horrix Salman
Mcteaiy Sparham Hifflock ' Thompson Wood Carter (2) Briley - Sheringham 'Cascarino O'Callaghan Horn Salman
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WIMBLEDON
Barclays League Division One
Easter Monday March 27th 1989
Kick-off 3.00 p.m.

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Qiliingham ........
10 i 43 40 25
Leyton O rient ...
9 6 42 49 24
Southend United
37 43 22 :
Ipswich Town .......
9 3 ' 40 59 21
Chariton Athletic . .
876 - 3 '- 34 52 19
West Ham United ,
4 29 50 18
Cam bridge United
. -5 ' 28 57 17
Portsmouth
6 .'4, 28 4 4 16
Fulham ,..............
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THE HILLSBOROUGH DISASTER
19 F e b r u a r y 199
As a person who was ^injured in the disaster in .1.9S9 I would be
very pleased to be able to pufT'The whole tragic affair behind me, as
many more people would like to do, I am sure. I therefore welcome the
sensible decision of the Home Secretary not to have another enquiry.
The persons responsible for the disaster were undoubtedly the
hooligan football fans whose bad behaviour caused Sheffield Wednesday
and other clubs to erect 'cages' for spectators as a. means of
controlling crowds. They are the ones to blame, not the police or
club officials. If there had been no 'cages', there would have been
no ser ious pr oblerns.
People like Trevor Hicks annoy me. Why does he have to go on
trying to apportion blame? This will not undo the situation.
Maybe he is after compensation and of course the police

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D a te : 15 January 1998
Thank you for your letter of 12 December 1997 to the Home Secretary about the Hillsborough
disaster.
Lord Justice Stuart-Smith is currently carrying out an independent scrutiny into the events at
Hillsborough. In the course of his scrutiny, he has received a great many submissions from a variety
of different parties. He also spent three days in Liverpool meeting the families of those who died and
listening to their concerns. He has said that he found these meetings fruitful and constructive, and
that they were of great help to him in writing his report.
Although it was hoped that the judge would be able to produce his report by the end of 1997, the
number of representations he has received has been such that this has not been possible. However, he
expects to be in a position to present his report to the Home Secretary shortly. Lord Justice Stuart-
Smith will recommend in his report any action which he considers appropriate in the light of the
representations he has received, and his advice will be made public. In the meantime, I am sure you
will appreciate that the management of the scrutiny remains entirely the judge’s responsibility, and it
would not be appropriate for Ministers to comment further at this stage.
Yours sincerely
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The Home Secretary
Home Office
50 Queen Anne’s Gate
London
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December 12,1997
As a football support I fully support the campaigpof the Hillsborough Families for Justice and request
that in the light of new evidence which has recently emerged about the disaster, you do all in your
power to ensure that a fresh inquiry and / or inquest is established as soon as possible.
Please don’t let the 96 people who died die in vain.
Sincerely,

Deal
H o m e O ffice
Operational Policing Policy Unit
50 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9AT
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O u r referen ce: PW/97 110/2180/9
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D a te: 15 January 1998
Thank you for your letter of 17 December 1997 to the Home Secretary about the Hillsborough
disaster.
Lord Justice Stuart-Smith is currently carrying out an independent scrutiny into the events at
Hillsborough. In the course of his scrutiny, he has received a great many submissions from a variety
of different parties. He also spent three days in Liverpool meeting the families of those who died and
listening to their concerns. He has said that he found these meetings fruitful and constructive, and
that they were of great help to him in writing his report.
Although it was hoped that the judge would be able to produce his report by the end of 1997, the
number of representations he has received has been such that this has not been possible. However, he
expects to be in a position to present his report to the Home Secretary shortly. Lord Justice Stuart-
Smith will recommend in his report any action which he considers appropriate in the light of the
representations he has received, and his advice will be made public. In the meantime, I am sure you
will appreciate that the management of the scrutiny remains entirely the judge’s responsibility, and it
would not be appropriate for Ministers to comment further at this stage.
Yours sincerely
MJ Ward
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Jack Straw M.P.
Home Secretary
Houses of Parliament
Westminster
London
17th December 1997
Reference: Hillsborough
Dear Mr. Straw,
I write with reference to my previous letter to the former Home Secretary (copy enclosed), and to the
recent Cook Report Update documentary shown on ITV on Tuesday 16th December.
I am very surprised and shocked to hear that the mother of one of the victims of the Hillsborough
tragedy has allegedly been approached by Mr. Justice Smith with regard to accepting a compromise
to re-opening the inquest, the compromise being that he merely attempt to more fully explain the last
hour or so of her sons life. She very bravely rejected this out of hand and continues to refuse to collect
her son’s death certificate until the time of death is changed and the truth revealed at a new inquest.
This scandalous cover up cannot be allowed to continue. Negligence in the extreme was responsible
for this tragedy and until somebody is made accountable, we run the risks of a repeat in the future.
I am not suggesting that any form of charges or punishment be brought to bear upon any individual.
Goodness knows, having to live with the consequences of that fateful day is burden enough to bear for
anyone. However, in order to ensure these events are never repeated, the authorities charged with
public safety must be made accountable in order to remain fully focused on the job in hand. Being able
to fail in their duty without recourse will only encourage the sort of arrogance and incompetence seen
at Hillsborough. Had a more focused view been prevalent I am convinced the tragic chain of events
which led to disaster at Hillsborough would never have occurred.
I will gladly discuss any points raised in this or my previous letter and ask once again that, in the
name of justice and in the interests of public safety, the inquest be re-opened in order to establish the
truth and allow the victims and their families to rest in peace.
Thank you for taking the time to read this letter, and please do not hesitate to contact me at the above
address.
Yours sincerely,
cc to: Stephen Byers M.P.
end: Copy of letter dated 6th December 1996.
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Michael Howard M.P.
Home Secretary
Houses of Parliament
Westminster
London
6th December 1996
Dear Mr Howard,
COPY
I write with reference to the recent documentary on the Hillsborough disaster and to express my
concern at what appears to be the withholding of evidence, and collusion by senior officers serving
with South Yorkshire Police at the time.
I have attended football matches for some thirty years both home and away and have been to
Hillsborough several times to see my team, Newcastle United, play Sheffield Wednesday.
On one particular occasion, many years prior to the disaster, we were subjected to exactly the same
scenario as the Liverpool fans were on that fateful day, but were fortunate in that we managed to force
open the side gates at the top of each pen and spill over into empty terracing reserved on either side
for segregation purposes. Our screams for help were met with abuse from the police. Our fingers were
hit with truncheons whilst trying to scale the fences to escape the crush. We were pushed back into the
overcrowded pen just as we were about to escape it. In short, our lives were put at serious risk because
of the, “They’re all animals”, attitude of South Yorkshire police.
Several people of all ages and backgrounds were injured and complained bitterly, but were silenced by
the threat of arrest for some invented, “Breach of the Public Order Act”.
I am sure that, upon the realization that their detractors could be silenced, South Yorkshire Police
became complacent and their standards continued to slip. Measures that were previously taken, such
as putting up terriers and checking tickets on the way to the stadium, were slowly discontinued.
These falling standards due to lack of accountability were, I believe, the major factors that led to so
many wrong decisions being taken on that fateful day, and the feet that ,as yet, there has still been no-
one held accountable, leaves open the possibility of a repeat disaster despite the recent improvements
to stadia.
How can any organization that pledges to take responsibility for the safety of the public, be allowed
to shirk that responsibility when the going gets tough?
Other incidents since Hillsborough, which I will gladly discuss, reinforce my view that there is still a
lack of training given to police officers on the issue of crowd control. Training which I am sure would
be forthcoming if every Chief Superintendent knew that they were going to be held accountable
should they fail in their duties.
I consider it imperative that the inquiry into the Hillsborough disaster be reopened, not as a witch
hunt of individuals, but to make accountable every organization which claims responsibility for public
safety, be it the police, fixe brigade, channel tunnel or whatever.

I will gladly discuss these and many other points which time prevents me from adding at this time and
implore you to consider the new evidence highlighted in the Hillsborough documentary.
Thank you for taking the time to read this letter, and please do not hesitate to contact me at the above
address.
Yours sincerely,
ccto:
Neville Trotter M.P.
David Mellor M.P. (BBC Radio 5 606)
Hillsborough Action Group

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Thank you for your letter of 13 October to the Home Secretary about Lord Justice Stuart-Smith’s
Scrutiny into the Hillsborough disaster, and for your personal views about the incident.
The Home Secretary has indicated that the terms of reference which he has given Lord Justice Stuart-
Smith for the Scrutiny will allow him to establish conclusively whether any material evidence was
overlooked in the consideration of the causes of the disaster or the consideration of criminal or other
proceedings. The Judge will also be able to recommend any other action which should be taken in
the public interest. The Home Secretary has said he is confident that the terms of reference will allow
the Judge to carry out a full scrutiny of the evidence which has been submitted by the families and
others.
Yours sincerely
Mike Ward
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Thank you for your letter of 7 October to the Home Secretary about Lord Justice Stuart-Smith’s
reported comment during his recent visit to Liverpool.
I am sorry that you were upset by the Judge’s comment to Mr Phil Hammond. The Judge has said
on the record that he deeply regrets this remark, which he made off-the-cuff and without any
intention to offend or for it to be taken seriously. He has made clear that the behaviour of the fans is
not the subject of the Scrutiny.
As you know, the Judge spent three days in Liverpool meeting the families of those who died and
listening to their concerns. He has said that he found these meetings fruitful and constructive, and
that they will help him to write his report.
The Home Secretary has indicated that he is satisfied Lord Justice Stuart-Smith will produce a
thorough report in which the families and the public can have confidence.
Yours sincerely
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O u r reference: PW/97 110/2180/7
Y o u r reference:
D ate: 6 November 1997
Thank you for your letter of 6 October to the Home Secretary about Lord Justice Stuart-Smith’s
reported comment during his recent visit to Liverpool.
I am sorry that you were upset by the Judge’s comment to Mr Phil Hammond. The Judge has said
on the record that he deeply regrets this remark, which he made off-the-cuff and without any
intention to offend or for it to be taken seriously. He has made it clear that the behaviour of the fans
is not the subject of the Inquiry.
The terms of reference which the Home Secretary has given Lord Justice Stuart-Smith for the
Scrutiny will allow him to establish conclusively whether any material evidence was overlooked in
the consideration of the causes of the disaster or the consideration of criminal or other proceedings.
The Judge will also be able to recommend any other action which should be taken in the public
interest. The Home Secretary remains confident that the terms of reference will allow Lord Justice
Stuart-Smith to carry out a full scrutiny of the evidence which has been submitted by the families
and others.
As you know, the Judge spent three days in Liverpool meeting the families of those who died and
listening to their concerns. He has said that he found these meetings fruitful and constructive, and
that they will help him to write his report.
The Home Secretary has said he is satisfied that Lord Justice Stuart-Smith will produce a thorough
report in which the families and the public can have confidence.
Yours sincerely
Mike Ward
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The Right Honourable Jack Straw ft. P.
Home Secretary
The House of Commons
LONDON
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6 October 1997
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I am writing to you today after hearing on the news the comments of' Lard.
Justice Stewart Smith, the Judge conducting the new enquiry into the
Hillsborough disaster. His remarks concerning the punctuality or
otherwise of Liverpool people, where 'Liverpool football fans arrive
late* (The Vorld at One, Radio 4) gave an appaling indication of his
bias towards Liverpool people, and clearly reflects his inability to
conduct any enquiry.
Therefore, I ask you to consider removing him from chairing this
enquiry, and question his suitability in chairing this or any other
sensitive enquiry. His lack of tact suggests his inability to arrive at
any impartial and just decision, despite his subsequent apologies.
At the same time, I would ask you to ensure all evidence and former
Police investigations concerning Hillsborough (both old and new) be
considered, in the interests of justice for those killed and their
relatives.
Yours sincerely___________
/c Angela Eagles M.P.

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H o m e O ffice
Operational Policing Policy Unit
50 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9AT
Switchboard: 0171 273 4000 Fax: 273 2703 Direct Line: 0171 273 3612
O u r reference: PW/97 110/2180/7
Y o u r reference:
D ate: 6 November 1997
Thank you for your letter of 7 October to the Home Secretary about Lord Justice Stuart-Smith’s
reported comment during his recent visit to Liverpool.
I am sorry that you were upset by the Judge’s comment to Mr Phil Hammond. The Judge has said
on the record that he deeply regrets this remark, which he made off-the-cuff and without any
intention to offend or for it to be taken seriously. He has made it clear that the behaviour of the fans
is not the subject of the Inquiry.
As you know, the Judge spent three days in Liverpool meeting the families of those who died and
listening to their concerns. He has said that he found these meetings fruitful and constructive, and
that they will help him to write his report.
The Home Secretary has said he is satisfied that Lord Justice Stuart-Smith will produce a thorough
report in which the families and the public can have confidence.
Yours sincerely
Mike Ward
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The Rt Hon J Straw MP
Home Secretary
House Of Commons
Westminster
London
Dear Sir,
8th October 1997
am the Chairman and Founder o f the Official Barnsly F C Supporters Club, I am also the
^P^ssistant Secretary o f the Northern Division of the National Federation o f Football Supporters
Clubs.
I am writing reference your decision to refer the Hillsborough disaster to another Judge for him to
investigate the facts and report if a further inquiry is required.
In view of the recent comments passed by this Judge reference Liverpool supporters arriving late,I
feel he has prejudiced his inquiry before it starts.The reason being is that if he does eventually
come to the conclusion that the Liverpool supporters arriving late was one of the reasons for the
disaster,the Liverpool Supporters are going to say it was not a proper inquiry because the Judge
held this view before he started looking at the facts.
In view of this I would like to request you appoint another Judge to examine the facts.
One o f the Main criticism Football supporters levied against the Taylor Report was that the
Inquiry team consisted mainly of academics who had never attended Football match's this applied
especially to Lord Justice Taylor.That is probably the reason they came to such dramatic
conclusion's which has resulted in NEARLY pricing the average supporter out of the game.
I would hope you would take this criticism on board and appoint members of the Football
Supporters organisations onto this inquiry team.
c:_____i_,__________ ,

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H o m e O ffice
Operational Policing Policy Unit
50 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9AT
Switchboard: 0171 273 4000 Fax: 273 2703 Direct Line: 0171 273 3612
O u r reference: PW/97 110/2180/7
Y o u r reference:
D ate: 6 November 1997
Thank you for your letter of 7 October to the Home Secretary about Lord Justice Stuart-Smith’s
reported comment during his recent visit to Liverpool.
I am sorry that you were upset by the Judge’s comment to Mr Phil Hammond. The Judge has said
on the record that he deeply regrets this remark, which he made off-the-cuff and without any
intention to offend or for it to be taken seriously. He has made it clear that the behaviour of the fans
is not the subject of the Inquiry.
As you know, the Judge spent three days in Liverpool meeting the families of those who died and
listening to their concerns. He has said that he found these meetings fruitful and constructive, and
that they will help him to write his report.
The Home Secretary has said he is satisfied that Lord Justice Stuart-Smith will produce a thorough
report in which the families and the public can have confidence.
Yours sincerely
Mike Ward
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# Hillsborough Football Tragedy
I am very concerned about the judge who made such a inane remark.
To do this shows a serious lack of judgement— therefore is he capable of
sound judgement not only for this enquiry but for any other cases he may
handle in the future? I greatly admire the families who were willing to
accept his apology, but personally I feel that he should not have been
allowed to continue to Chair the enquiry.
Judges get paid a very high salary; the public should be able to
expect a very high standard from them. Do they undergo appraisal
regularly? If so by whom, I wonder? They themselves seem to come from
a very narrow social group.
I hope you will deal with this matter most strongly not just for this
one case but for the judiciary generally.
Yours faithfully

Deal
H o m e O ffice
Operational Policing Policy Unit
50 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9AT
Switchboard: 0171 273 4000 Fax: 273 2703 Direct Line: 0171 273 3612
O u r reference: PW/97 110/2180/7
Y o u r reference:
D ate: 6 November 1997
Thank you for your letter of 9 October to the Home Secretary about Lord Justice Stuart-Smith’s
reported comment during his recent visit to Liverpool.
I am sorry that you were upset by the Judge’s comment to Mr Phil Hammond. The Judge has said
on the record that he deeply regrets this remark, which he made off-the-cuff and without any
intention to offend or for it to be taken seriously. He has made it clear that the behaviour of the fans
is not the subject of the Inquiry.
As you know, the Judge spent three days in Liverpool meeting the families of those who died and
listening to their concerns. He has said that he found these meetings fruitful and constructive, and
that they will help him to write his report.
The Home Secretary has said he is satisfied that Lord Justice Stuart-Smith will produce a thorough
report in which the families and the public can have confidence.
Yours sincerely
—
Mike Ward
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O u r reference: PW/97 110/2180/7
Y o u r reference:
D ate: 6 November 1997
Thank you for your letter of 6 October to the Home Secretary about Lord Justice Stuart-Smith’s
reported comment during his recent visit to Liverpool.
I am sorry that you were upset by the Judge’s comment to Mr Phil Hammond. The Judge has said
on the record that he deeply regrets this remark, which he made off-the-cuff and without any
intention to offend or for it to be taken seriously. He has made it clear that the behaviour of the fans
is not the subject of the Inquiry.
As you know, the Judge spent three days in Liverpool meeting the families of those who died and
listening to their concerns. He has said that he found these meetings fruitful and constructive, and
that they will help him to write his report.
The Home Secretary has said he is satisfied that Lord Justice Stuart-Smith will produce a thorough
report in which the families and the public can have confidence.
Yours sincerely
Mike Ward
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Operational Policing Policy Unit
50 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9AT
Switchboard: 0171 273 4000 Fax: 273 2703 Direct Line: 0171 273 3612
Mr P J Hooper Q u r ref erence; PW/97 110/2180/7
Secretary
Association of Show & Y o u r reference:
Agricultural Organisations
The Showground D ate: 13 October 1997
Shepton Mallet
Somerset BA4 6QN
Dear Mr Hooper
Thank you for your further letter of 3 October to Lord Justice Stuart-Smith’s Secretariat about the
current scrutiny into the Hillsborough disaster.
My letter of 1 September detailed Lord Justice Stuart-Smith’s terms of reference. You will appreciate,
therefore, that the scrutiny will not, in itself, have any impact on the work of your association. Lord
Justice Stuart-Smith is concerned with the existence of any new evidence which may justify a further
public inquiry into the disaster. It is only in the event of a further public inquiry being established
that events such as those to which you refer in your letter may be affected.
At this stage, it is the intention of Lord Justice Stuart-Smith to hear only from those who wish to
make representations concerning the events at Hillsborough. In view of the fact that your association
is not affected by the current scrutiny, we do not propose to consult you at this stage. If, on the
conclusion of Lord Justice Stuart-Smith’s scrutiny, the Home Secretary feels a further full public
inquiry is warranted it will, of course, be open to you to make further representations.
Yours sincerely
Mike Ward
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ASSOCIATION OF SHOW & AGF
SECRETARY:
Paul J Hooper
TELEPHONE: (01749) 822200
FACSIMILE: (01749) 823169
3 October 1996
Secretariat to Lord Justice Stuart-Smith
Home Office
Room 528
50 Queen Anne’s Gate
London
SW1H 9AT
Dear Sir
THE S H O W G R O U N D
SHEPTON MALLET
SOMERSET
BA4 6QN
Further to my correspondence with the Home Secretary’s office and subsequent reply from the
Operational Policing Policy Unit, I write on behalf of the above Association in relation to the
scrutiny of the evidence regarding the Hillsborough disaster.
As a result of the main Hillsborough Enquiry, there were several changes in legislation and
guidance in relation to crowd control, policing and allied features for many outdoor public
entertainment events which have affected many of the agricultural shows, specialist events
and country fairs represented by the Association.
The ASAO is particularly anxious to be involved in future discussions and/or consultation
with regard to any modification of existing legislation.
The events represented by the ASAO, some 200 with over 4 million people attending
throughout the year, are mostly organised by registered charities, and our membership expects
that we should be closely involved in discussions which may directly affect the running of
these events. Often it is only experienced event organisers who can say whether a proposed
change is likely to have the desired effect, especially where the inter-action between animals
and humans is involved.
We should be grateful therefore to receive information and consultation papers in due course
regarding any proposals.
Yours faithfully
(J^Paul J Hooper
Secretary
Charity Registration Number 287504
Company Number 2758883

Dear
H O M E OFFICE
Operational Policing Policy Unit
50 Queen Anne's Gate, London, SW1H 9AT
Direct Line 0171 273 3612 Fax 0171 273 2703
Y our reference:
O ur reference: PW/97 110/2180/7
D a te: 4 September 1997
Thank you for your recent letter to the Home Secretary about the forthcoming scrutiny of
evidence about the Hillsborough disaster.
Concerns that a number of issues relating to the disaster remain unresolved received renewed
attention following the Granada television documentary drama “Hillsborough” last
December. After fully considering the material which was subsequently put forward, the
Home Secretary decided, in all the circumstances, that there should be an independent
scrutiny to ensure that no matter of significance is overlooked before a final decision is taken.
To this end, as you will know, he announced in the House on 30 June that he had invited Lord
Justice Stuart-Smith, a senior Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal, to conduct the scrutiny.
His terms of reference are:
To ascertain whether any evidence exists relating to the disaster at the Hillsborough
Stadium on 15 April 1989 which was not available:
a) To the Inquiry conducted by the late Lord Taylor, or
b) To the Director of Public Prosecutions or the Attorney General for the purpose of
discharging their respective statutory responsibilities or
c) To the Chief Officer of the South Yorkshire Police in relation to police disciplinary
matters;
And in relation to (a) to advise whether any evidence not previously available is of
such significance as to justify establishment by the Secretary of State for the Home
Department of a further Public Inquiry; and in relation to (b) and (c) to draw to their
attention any evidence not previously considered by them which may be relevant to
their respective duties; and to advise whether there is any other action which should
be taken in the public interest.
Lord Justice Stuart-Smith has been asked to examine all the written and other evidence that
has been submitted. He will also consider any further material that interested parties wish to
submit to him. He will then advise the Home Secretary whether any evidence not previously
available is of such significance to justify a further full public inquiry, and the Home
Secretary has undertaken to make public the advice which Lord Justice Stuart-Smith gives
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him. Lord Justice Stuart-Smith will also identify for the Attorney-General, the Director of
Public Prosecutions and the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police any evidence that
might be relevant to their decisions which has not previously been considered.
Lord Justice Stuart-Smith expects to start proceedings in September, and hopes to produce his
report by the end of the year. He has indicated that anyone who, after consideration of his
terms of reference, wishes to make representations to him should contact his Secretariat via
Room 528, 50 Queen Anne’s Gate, London SW1H 9AT.
The Government hopes this independent scrutiny will finally bring to an end the uncertainty
over the events of that terrible afternoon.
You also refer in your letter to the issue of parental responsibility for the actions of children
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who offend. Like you, the Government believes that the primary responsibility for the
behaviour of children rests with parents, and takes the view that an effective deterrent is
needed in order to prevent young people from committing crimes, and to nip criminal
behaviour in the bud.
That is why it is proposed to give the courts a range of new community disposals which will
be designed to curtail offending behaviour at an early stage. These include an Action Plan
Order, a highly focused three-month order which will involve the young offender in an
intensively supervised programme of education and activities and ensure that his parents are
fully involved, and a Reparation Order, which would require the young person to make
specific reparation either to the individual victim of his crime, where the victim desired this,
or to the community. An end to the current system of formal police cautioning is also
proposed with the introduction of a new Final Warning, which will trigger action by local
agencies to ensure that the young person is deflected from his offending behaviour.
Measures such as these will confront young offenders with their behaviour and produce
practical solutions for changing it, as well as ensuring that punishment produces some
worthwhile community benefit in the form of reparation and reduced levels of offending.
Yours sincerely
M J Ward
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H O M E O FFICE
Operational Policing Policy Unit
50 Queen Anne's Gate, London, SW1H 9AT
Direct Line 0171 273 3612 Fax 0171 273 2703
Y our referen ce:
O ur referen ce: PW/97 110/2180/7
D ate: 1 September 1997
Thank you for your recent letter to the Home Secretary, about the forthcoming scrutiny of
evidence about the Hillsborough disaster.
Concerns that a number of issues relating to the disaster remain unresolved received renewed
attention following the Granada television documentary drama “Hillsborough” last
December. After fully considering the material which was subsequently put forward, the
Home Secretary decided, in all the circumstances, that there should be an independent
scrutiny to ensure that no matter of significance is overlooked before a final decision is taken.
To this end, as you will know, he announced in the House on 30 June that he had invited Lord
Justice Stuart-Smith, a senior Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal to conduct the scrutiny. His
terms of reference are:
To ascertain whether any evidence exists relating to the disaster at the Hillsborough
Stadium on 15 April 1989 which was not available:
a) To the Inquiry conducted by the late Lord Taylor; or
b) To the Director of Public Prosecutions or the Attorney General for the purpose of
discharging their respective statutory responsibilities; or
c) To the Chief Officer of the South Yorkshire Police in relation to police disciplinary
matters;
And in relation to (a) to advise whether any evidence not previously available is of
such significance as to justify establishment by the Secretary of State for the Home
Department of a further Public Inquiry; and in relation to (b) and (c) to draw to their
attention any evidence not previously considered by them which may be relevant to
their respective duties; and to advise whether there is any other action which should
be taken in the public interest.
Lord Justice Stuart-Smith has been asked to examine all the written and other evidence that
has been submitted. He will also consider any further material that interested parties wish to
submit to him. He will then advise the Home Secretary whether any evidence not previously
available is of such significance to justify a further full public inquiry, and the Home
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Secretary has undertaken to make public the advice which Lord Justice Stuart-Smith gives
him. Lord Justice Stuart-Smith will also identify for the Attorney-General, the Director of
Public Prosecutions and the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police any evidence that
might be relevant to their decisions which has not previously been considered.
Lord Justice Stuart-Smith expects to start proceedings in September, and hopes to produce his
report by the end of the year. He has indicated that anyone who, after consideration of his
terms of reference, wishes to make representations to him should contact his Secretariat via
Room 528, 50 Queen Anne’s Gate, London SW1H 9AT.
The Government hopes this independent scrutiny will finally bring to an end the uncertainty
over the events of that terrible afternoon.
Yours sincerely
M J Ward
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Jack Straw
Rt. Hon. Home Secretary
c/o 10, Downing Street
London
ENGLAND
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The BBC, in connection with my letter on ^Hillsborough," mentioned your
name and intent regarding same.
Copies enclosed.
The death of a son or daughter is a mind-wrecking injury.
Let's believe the survivors' bereavements won't— ultimately, and in
traditionally anticipated British format— have to be extended, mourning
the murder of their dignity, too.
Very Truly Yours,

Dear
BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION
5 5 PARADISE STREET
LIVERPOOL L I 3BP
TELEPHONE: 0151-708 5500
FAX: 0151-794 0988
0151-794 0909 fNEW Sj
27th June, 1997.
Thank you for your recent letter which was included in our weekly “Letters to
the Editor” slot on the Daniels and Phillips programme.
Hillsborough has been much in the news recently, and by the time you receive
this letter, the new Home Secretary, Jack Straw, will have announced whether
a new inquiry or review of the original inquiry will take place.
Thank you for your interest.
Yours sincerely,
MICK ORD
Editor

Dear Editor,
I recently saw the TV film, "Hillsborough."
The content was so intensely realistic, emotions of anger a,nd depression had me
switch off..where the nauseated boy witness repeatedly- seeks a break from the
oblivious official.
I recalled why I'd originally left the U.K. for the U.S.
^ ^ I t was precisely because of the fraudulent, spiritless outlooks, (so vigilantly
portrayed), of the coryzal, would-be or privileged classes, their paucity of
generosity, their paleolithic views on equity or compassion for anybody but themselves,
their blistering, spite corroded ethics and their frigid, arrogant, irr-
eformable hearts. This includes the dishonourable, colluding, legal leeches.
Britain never had an Empire.
It just raped, pillaged and stole extensive territories.
When unfortunate people were abused, punished, murdered or excluded in the pursuit
of power, wealth, immunity and the preservation of them...so be it.
The correlation with Hillsborough is unmistakable.
Very Truly Yours,
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H O M E OFFICE
Operational Policing Policy Unit
50 Queen Anne's Gate, London, SW1H 9AT
Direct Line 0171 273 3612 Fax 0171 273 2703
Y our reference:
O ur referen ce: PW/97 110/2180/7
D a te: 1 September 1997
Thank you for your letter of 1 July to the Prime Minister, copied to the Home Secretary,
about the forthcoming scrutiny of evidence about the Hillsborough disaster.
Concerns that a number of issues relating to the disaster remain unresolved received renewed
attention following the Granada television documentary drama “Hillsborough” last
December. After fully considering the material which was subsequently put forward, the
Home Secretary decided, in all the circumstances, that there should be an independent
scrutiny to ensure that no matter of significance is overlooked before a final decision is taken.
To this end, as you will know, he announced in the House on 30 June that he had invited Lord
Justice Stuart-Smith, a senior Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal to conduct the scrutiny. His
terms of reference are:
To ascertain whether any evidence exists relating to the disaster at the Hillsborough
Stadium on 15 April 1989 which was not available:
a) To the Inquiry conducted by the late Lord Taylor; or
b) To the Director of Public Prosecutions or the Attorney General for the purpose of
discharging their respective statutory responsibilities; or
c) To the Chief Officer of the South Yorkshire Police in relation to police disciplinary
matters;
And in relation to (a) to advise whether any evidence not previously available is of
such significance as to justify establishment by the Secretary of State for the Home
Department of a further Public Inquiry; and in relation to (b) and (c) to draw to their
attention any evidence not previously considered by them which may be relevant to
their respective duties; and to advise whether there is any other action which should
be taken in the public interest.
Lord Justice Stuart-Smith has been asked to examine all the written and other evidence that
has been submitted. He will also consider any further material that interested parties wish to
submit to him. He will then advise the Home Secretary whether any evidence not previously
available is of such significance to justify a further full public inquiry, and the Home
Secretary has undertaken to make public the advice which Lord Justice Stuart-Smith gives
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him. Lord Justice Stuart-Smith will also identify for the Attorney-General, the Director of
Public Prosecutions and the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police any evidence that
might be relevant to their decisions which has not previously been considered.
Lord Justice Stuart-Smith expects to start proceedings in September, and hopes to produce his
report by the end of the year. He has indicated that anyone who, after consideration of his
terms of reference, wishes to make representations to him should contact his Secretariat via
Room 528, 50 Queen Anne’s Gate, London SW1H 9AT.
The Government hopes this independent scrutiny will finally bring to an end the uncertainty
over the events of that terrible afternoon.
Yours sincerely
M J Ward
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1st July 1997
For the attention of Mr. T. Blair MP
Prime Minister
House of Commons
Jalace of Westminster
'London
SW1A OAA
Dear Sir,
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I was delighted to learn that you are to re-open the investigation ini
Football disaster and presumably the extent to which Police incompetence
o p p u Ub g s s t r y
the Hillsborough
to this tragedy.
Football supporters, as you know, have caused more deaths, personal injury, trauma and
damage to property than any other sporting group in the last few decades in both the UK and
possibly the world.
I am sure that with careful consideration of all the relevant facts, and using the equivalent of
the logic applied to the Dunblane tragedy and the subsequent formation of the Firearms
Amendment Act 1997, that you will come to the inescapable conclusion that spectators at all
football matches should in future be banned. This should also eventually apply to Rugby
matches and all other similar events in order to eliminate the likelihood of such occurrences
as Hillsborough, Bradford, Heysel, Ibrox etc., etc., ever happening again.
c.c. Mr. J. Straw MP
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