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Orgreave inquiry announced 05:38 - Jul 21 with 889 viewsbluelagos

Lots of questions around the role of the police obviously but also huge questions still to be answered around political interference, the media role and the failure of the justice system to hold indivifual officers to account.

40 years passage will make it hard (Northumbria plod shredding docs only last year) and prosecutions (even with evidence) seem unlikely.

But the truth is important, although it may be uncomfortable for a few. Hope it doesn't take years to report but these things are never quick. Modelled on the HIP report apparently, with the Bishop of Sheffield over seeing it.


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Orgreave inquiry announced on 06:13 - Jul 21 with 785 viewsbluelagos

Background details here for the younguns who are interested


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Orgreave inquiry announced on 12:30 - Jul 21 with 531 viewsbournemouthblue

It will unleash a few dark truths for the Tories, that they hoped to bury

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Orgreave inquiry announced on 12:42 - Jul 21 with 503 viewsArnoldMoorhen

It should be reasonably straightforward to identify any bad apples amongst the good 'uns. Just note down their shoulder numbers from any video footage.

Oh. It seems they must have fallen off accidentally.
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Orgreave inquiry announced on 12:47 - Jul 21 with 491 viewsMattinLondon

Apologies for asking a daft question - but how did Northumbria police justify shredding their documentation?
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Orgreave inquiry announced on 13:27 - Jul 21 with 449 viewsArnoldMoorhen

Orgreave inquiry announced on 12:47 - Jul 21 by MattinLondon

Apologies for asking a daft question - but how did Northumbria police justify shredding their documentation?


"Yeah, it was the work experience kid. Genuine mistake, but we've had to let them go. Terrible shame, all round, but there you go."
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Orgreave inquiry announced on 13:29 - Jul 21 with 443 viewsArnoldMoorhen

Orgreave inquiry announced on 12:47 - Jul 21 by MattinLondon

Apologies for asking a daft question - but how did Northumbria police justify shredding their documentation?


Story here:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/24/northumbria-police-destroy-batt
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Orgreave inquiry announced on 13:31 - Jul 21 with 431 viewsbluelagos

Orgreave inquiry announced on 12:47 - Jul 21 by MattinLondon

Apologies for asking a daft question - but how did Northumbria police justify shredding their documentation?


The papers slipped and fell into the shredder?

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Orgreave inquiry announced on 13:40 - Jul 21 with 401 viewsleitrimblue

Orgreave inquiry announced on 12:47 - Jul 21 by MattinLondon

Apologies for asking a daft question - but how did Northumbria police justify shredding their documentation?


'Argh, doesn't matter we're the good guys..'
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Orgreave inquiry announced on 13:56 - Jul 21 with 369 viewsLeaky

Ah well a good payday for the Lawyers. It was 40 years ago, nearly all the Old Bill wil have retired or died.
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Orgreave inquiry announced on 15:52 - Jul 21 with 286 viewsleitrimblue

Orgreave inquiry announced on 13:56 - Jul 21 by Leaky

Ah well a good payday for the Lawyers. It was 40 years ago, nearly all the Old Bill wil have retired or died.


Yer, I'm sure its just a strange coincidence that an enquiry into clear and obvious police brutality takes 40 years to be announced.

I'm expecting the Battle of the bean field enquiry to start in a few years now...
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Orgreave inquiry announced on 16:10 - Jul 21 with 264 viewsDJR

Orgreave inquiry announced on 15:52 - Jul 21 by leitrimblue

Yer, I'm sure its just a strange coincidence that an enquiry into clear and obvious police brutality takes 40 years to be announced.

I'm expecting the Battle of the bean field enquiry to start in a few years now...


You've also got to feel sorry for descendants of the Diggers who've been waiting nearly 400 years for justice.

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Orgreave inquiry announced on 16:41 - Jul 21 with 197 viewsbluelagos

Orgreave inquiry announced on 15:52 - Jul 21 by leitrimblue

Yer, I'm sure its just a strange coincidence that an enquiry into clear and obvious police brutality takes 40 years to be announced.

I'm expecting the Battle of the bean field enquiry to start in a few years now...


You can't seriously expect them to hold an inquiry at a time any of them can be held to account?

As for that Blair Peach headbutting a Met plods truncheon like that...

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Orgreave inquiry announced on 16:49 - Jul 21 with 180 viewssoupytwist

Maybe at last someone from the BBC will be able to explain how they managed to show footage from the day backwards on the news, which just so happened to give entirely the wrong impression of what went on.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/dec/16/battle-orgreave-lesley-boul
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Orgreave inquiry announced on 18:13 - Jul 21 with 112 viewsRadlett_blue

Exactly - this will be hard, especially if it involves people well into their dotage being asked to remember events that happened over 40 years ago.
No-one will be brought to book over all this - everyone will be too old & it will be impossible to convict anyone at a jury trial, so what's the point? Sir Norman Bettison is still prancing around, despite his obvious involvement in the shameful Hillsborough cover-up.
The only thing that should be done is Labour to make good on their promise to introduce their "Hillsborough Law", which is supposed to increase public accountability in such cases. Maybe Mr Lawyer Starmer has realised this might create more problems than it will solve?

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Orgreave inquiry announced on 18:19 - Jul 21 with 108 viewsbluelagos

Orgreave inquiry announced on 16:49 - Jul 21 by soupytwist

Maybe at last someone from the BBC will be able to explain how they managed to show footage from the day backwards on the news, which just so happened to give entirely the wrong impression of what went on.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/dec/16/battle-orgreave-lesley-boul


Without wishing to prejudge the inquiry findings, I would think it likely to be along the lines of "because they were told to"

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