Police Chief Lied not the (***) - Hillsborough

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The match commander on the day of the Hillsborough disaster

has admitted he lied about fans forcing an exit gate open to enter the ground.

Relatives of the 96 fans who died gasped as David Duckenfield told the new inquests: "I apologise unreservedly to the families."

He said: "Everybody knew the truth, the fans and police knew the truth that we'd opened the gates."

Mr Duckenfield, 70, said he would regret the lie "to his dying day".

He was in charge of policing at Sheffield Wednesday's stadium on 15 April 1989 when a fatal crush developed in terraced pens allocated to Liverpool fans.

The court heard that on the day Mr Duckenfield told Graham Kelly, of the FA, that some fans had got in themselves through gate C, when the truth was that he had ordered the gate to be opened.

Christina Lambert QC, counsel for the inquests, said some witnesses have spoken of having a "clear recollection" that Mr Duckenfield "made reference to gates having been stormed".

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A few on here used these lies to demonise the Fans

Wonder if they will step up and admit, what the Fans & others maintained since Day one

The Police caused this disaster , then made it worse with their inaction immediately after, then went in to full BLAME GAME MODE.

THAT WENT ALL THE WAY UP TO MAGGIE THE WITCH THATCHERS OFFICE

[sir_arthur_strebe-grebling]

So, what should he have done? Kept the gates shut so that the ticketless drunken (***) crushed each other to death in the road outside?

For 25 years many (***), just like many other loony lefties, have used this to try to blame Mrs Thatcher. How did she cause the late-arriving (***) to push against those who had arrived in good time? And how many of them are being interrogated at the inquest?