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A dark stain on our history, with many lessons still relevant today.
To think some people still support the death penalty, which in this case would have seen innocent people hanged.
Perhaps the biggest travesty is that those responsible were never held to account, indeed there was no effort to investigate once these innocent people were convicted.
As for the West Midlands Police, well guess who the SYP invited to collate the evidence to support the inquiry and inquests into the 97 innocents killed by the South Yorks police at Hillsborough? (You'd think maybe someone else should appoint them but that was how it happened)
It was WMP who interviewed me as a young 19 year old witness, threatening me because they didn't like me evidence. Changing aspects of my statement including adding the phrase 'Saw 50% of fans drinking' to my evidence afterwards, is even written on in a different style of handwriting...
During one of my interviews with the Iopc they questioned me about Beechy, previously head of the WMSCS. Beechy who had been put on 'desk duties' in 89 such were the concerns over his condict, was drafted in by the WMP to help with their Hillsborough evidence work.
One of his jobs was to visit witnesses of statements considered "unsupportive" of the SYP case and my statement was identified as such, as I recalled a mounted officer who I had taken his number such was my disgust as his conduct.
There were a number of mounted officers who had complaints including Scott who would later be exposed for fabricating evidence about the fans burning his horse with cigarette butts (a file later went to the CPS on Scott)
I digress, Beechy had his list of statements and mine was on it. Unfortunately for him I had moved address inbetween giving my statement and him knocking on my door. I had only moved 25 doors down the road :-)
Be of no doubt, the West Midlands Police, supported by officers of the corrupt West Midlands Serious Crime Sqaud were central to the cover up over Hillsborough. They are widely considered by many campaigners as the 'ones who got away' given the failure of the criminal system to bring criminal charges against any of them.
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