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# And you'll never walk alone... # | 0:00:07 | 0:00:12 | |
It was the result they fought for, but barely believed they'd get. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:15 | |
The conclusion of unlawful killing on the 96 people | 0:00:15 | 0:00:18 | |
who died at Hillsborough exploded the myth that Liverpool fans | 0:00:18 | 0:00:22 | |
had caused the greatest peacetime disaster of our generation, | 0:00:22 | 0:00:26 | |
and laid the blame squarely at the feet of the authorities. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:30 | |
The Hillsborough disaster was entirely avoidable, | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
as the jury has found. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:35 | |
It was no accident. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:36 | |
It was no natural phenomenon. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:38 | |
It was caused by catastrophic human failure, | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
but above all, it was a catastrophic policing failure. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:44 | |
It's unlikely this would have been possible | 0:00:46 | 0:00:48 | |
without the tenacity of one woman. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:51 | |
Driven by a mother's love for her child - | 0:00:51 | 0:00:53 | |
a woman who refused to give in. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:56 | |
Until it's heard openly in an open court room | 0:00:56 | 0:00:58 | |
and I get a new inquest on him, | 0:00:58 | 0:01:00 | |
and I can get the death certificate changed, | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
I can't put Kevin to rest. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:04 | |
Tonight, we bring you the story of Anne Williams - | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
an ordinary mum who went on an extraordinary search for truth. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:14 | |
Her legacy is continued by her family, | 0:01:14 | 0:01:16 | |
and we were given exclusive access to them | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
throughout the new inquest process. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:21 | |
This is the day of reckoning. | 0:01:21 | 0:01:23 | |
If we don't get them now, we'll never get them. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
This is the story of their quest for justice. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:28 | |
He was a good brother, he baby-sat me a lot | 0:01:44 | 0:01:46 | |
when my mum went to work and went out. | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
I just remember him being happy-go-lucky | 0:01:50 | 0:01:52 | |
and always kicking a football. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:54 | |
And even doing his homework for school, | 0:01:56 | 0:02:00 | |
he loved school. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
A nice lad, a nice... | 0:02:02 | 0:02:04 | |
A good-looking lad and a good sportsman, | 0:02:04 | 0:02:06 | |
he was good at everything. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:08 | |
He put his heart and soul into everything he did. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
The semifinal in Sheffield on the 15th of April, 1989, | 0:02:10 | 0:02:14 | |
between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest | 0:02:14 | 0:02:16 | |
was 15-year-old Kevin Williams' first away match without an adult - | 0:02:16 | 0:02:20 | |
a reward for working hard at school. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
I did his packed lunch and everything the night before. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
And as he was walking out of the door, | 0:02:26 | 0:02:28 | |
we saw him that morning, because I got him up, | 0:02:28 | 0:02:31 | |
and as he walked out the door I said, "I hope they win, Kev." | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
"No worries, Mum - 3-0." And off he went. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:37 | |
That was the last time I saw him. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:39 | |
Kevin and his friends arrived for the match in plenty of time | 0:02:39 | 0:02:43 | |
and found themselves a place in pen three of the Leppings Lane Terrace - | 0:02:43 | 0:02:47 | |
a pen which became fatally overcrowded | 0:02:47 | 0:02:50 | |
when police ordered an exit gate to be opened | 0:02:50 | 0:02:53 | |
to ease congestion outside. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:54 | |
We just thought it was a pitch invasion. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:00 | |
I remember I said to my mum... Because she'd ran out of ciggies, | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
so she was nipping to the Legion to get some. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
I remember saying to my mum, | 0:03:07 | 0:03:09 | |
"It said on the telly that seven were dead," | 0:03:09 | 0:03:12 | |
and I remember her shouting at me and saying, "Kevin's there." | 0:03:12 | 0:03:17 | |
But you don't really understand as a kid, do you? You just don't think. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:23 | |
I just remember them being up all night then... | 0:03:25 | 0:03:28 | |
..and me dad phoning the helpline. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:32 | |
Then we found out Stuart at the top had died. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:38 | |
I think when we found out Andy was home, the lad he'd gone with, | 0:03:41 | 0:03:45 | |
I think we knew then. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:46 | |
Anne and her husband Steve drove over to Sheffield | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
to try to find their son. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:53 | |
But instead ended up identifying his lifeless body. | 0:03:53 | 0:03:56 | |
They took us into this room | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
and it had purple curtains. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:01 | |
And I can remember them opening the curtains | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
and there was glass between us. We couldn't touch him. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:07 | |
I remember banging and screaming on the glass, | 0:04:07 | 0:04:10 | |
because they'd turned Kevin towards the glass | 0:04:10 | 0:04:12 | |
and he was looking at us. We couldn't even hold him. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:15 | |
Caught in a crush on the Leppings Lane Terrace, | 0:04:15 | 0:04:18 | |
Kevin became one of the youngest victims | 0:04:18 | 0:04:20 | |
of football's most notorious disaster, | 0:04:20 | 0:04:24 | |
which would go on to claim 96 lives. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
It had gone from having Kevin and his friends here, | 0:04:27 | 0:04:30 | |
to having, like, no-one. | 0:04:30 | 0:04:31 | |
I remember feeling really lonely after he died. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:39 | |
The then inquest into how the fans died opened with the coroner | 0:04:40 | 0:04:44 | |
ruling that they would all have been dead by 3:15pm, | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
so he wouldn't be hearing any evidence after that time. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:51 | |
But a chance remark to Kevin's mother, Anne, outside court | 0:04:51 | 0:04:55 | |
set in motion a search for truth | 0:04:55 | 0:04:57 | |
that would consume the rest of her life. | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
They said they'd got something to tell me that would upset me - | 0:04:59 | 0:05:03 | |
that when he was in the gymnasium at 4pm | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
with Special WPC Martin, | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
he'd opened his eyes and he's called for his mum. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
I'd got his head on my shoulder... | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
..and I knew he was going, | 0:05:17 | 0:05:18 | |
because he was getting bluer and bluer around the mouth, | 0:05:18 | 0:05:21 | |
and his pallor was just going. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:23 | |
As I picked him up, | 0:05:23 | 0:05:26 | |
suddenly his eyes just opened... | 0:05:26 | 0:05:28 | |
..and he looked straight through me and that's when he said, "Mum." | 0:05:30 | 0:05:34 | |
But Debra Martin wasn't called to give evidence. | 0:05:34 | 0:05:37 | |
Believing there had been a whitewash, | 0:05:37 | 0:05:38 | |
Anne refused to pick up Kevin's death certificate | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
which stated the cause of death as "accidental". | 0:05:41 | 0:05:44 | |
The worst thing they could have told her at the original inquest - | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
that he'd called "Mum". | 0:05:47 | 0:05:48 | |
It's the worst thing they ever did because it just stemmed from there. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:52 | |
Determined to find out the truth of what happened to her son, | 0:05:53 | 0:05:57 | |
and track down those who had helped Kevin that day, | 0:05:57 | 0:06:00 | |
those who said he was alive after 3:15. | 0:06:00 | 0:06:03 | |
Stevie Hart was among a group of Liverpool fans | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
who put Kevin on an advertising board | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
to take him to what they thought was medical help | 0:06:09 | 0:06:12 | |
down the other end of the pitch. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:14 | |
When we picked him up, we went through... | 0:06:14 | 0:06:16 | |
There was a cordon of police officers, about halfway, | 0:06:16 | 0:06:20 | |
three-quarters of the way down the pitch. | 0:06:20 | 0:06:22 | |
We went through them. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:24 | |
But they were literally just standing there | 0:06:24 | 0:06:28 | |
and people were just running through them with... | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
advertising boards. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:32 | |
And there was police officers literally standing, | 0:06:32 | 0:06:36 | |
I don't know, two or three yards away from me, | 0:06:36 | 0:06:39 | |
and I said, "Where can we put this young lad?" | 0:06:39 | 0:06:42 | |
And he said to us, "Put him down there | 0:06:42 | 0:06:44 | |
-"and then -BLEEP -off back down the other end of the pitch." | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
And that was his exact words. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:51 | |
And I didn't think of it at the time, | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
but I thought, it's only later on, in hindsight, that I thought, | 0:06:55 | 0:06:59 | |
"Why didn't he, when we put him... Why didn't he help him?" | 0:06:59 | 0:07:04 | |
But I assumed because he told us to put him there | 0:07:04 | 0:07:07 | |
that that was where all the medical people were going to be. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:10 | |
Cos I mean, you know, there was that many people coming in. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:14 | |
You wanted to get him help, | 0:07:14 | 0:07:15 | |
and you wanted to get back and help as many other people as you could. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:18 | |
So basically, we put him down there. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:21 | |
Looking at it now, we should never have left him. | 0:07:21 | 0:07:23 | |
But at that time, | 0:07:23 | 0:07:25 | |
I was convinced | 0:07:25 | 0:07:27 | |
he'd get any help he needed. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:30 | |
And I think everybody else who carried him must have been the same, | 0:07:30 | 0:07:34 | |
including two police officers. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:36 | |
What made you think that Kevin was alive? | 0:07:36 | 0:07:38 | |
Because he wasn't... There was people... | 0:07:38 | 0:07:40 | |
I'd seen other people, and I knew they was dead | 0:07:40 | 0:07:42 | |
because of their colour - they were blue. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
But I knew he was alive. I KNEW he was alive. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:47 | |
And everybody who helped carry him knew he was alive. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:50 | |
Because we were all sort of... | 0:07:50 | 0:07:52 | |
We couldn't get him down there quick enough, | 0:07:52 | 0:07:54 | |
because we knew he needed something, | 0:07:54 | 0:07:56 | |
someone better qualified than me to help him. | 0:07:56 | 0:08:00 | |
But no help came. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:02 | |
Out of 44 South Yorkshire Ambulances called to the ground, | 0:08:02 | 0:08:06 | |
only three made it on to the pitch. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:08 | |
Anne found pathologists who said, given the right treatment, | 0:08:08 | 0:08:12 | |
Kevin could have survived his injuries. | 0:08:12 | 0:08:15 | |
Kevin could have been saved. | 0:08:15 | 0:08:17 | |
I believe he died through lack of care. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:19 | |
The part-time barmaid and mum | 0:08:19 | 0:08:21 | |
became immersed in legal and medical documents. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:24 | |
From being one of the 96, Kevin became the awkward one, | 0:08:24 | 0:08:28 | |
the little boy who didn't fit in with the official version of events. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:32 | |
Believing Kevin's case could open the door for all 96 | 0:08:32 | 0:08:35 | |
of those who died, Anne three times took her fight for a new inquest | 0:08:35 | 0:08:39 | |
to the Attorney General, and when that failed, | 0:08:39 | 0:08:43 | |
went to the European Court, only to be told her application was too late. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:48 | |
But with each disappointment, | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
Anne's resolve grew stronger. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:53 | |
It's Kevin that drives me on. | 0:08:53 | 0:08:55 | |
It's the memory of Kevin and the way Kevin was, | 0:08:55 | 0:08:59 | |
and I often look at his photograph... | 0:08:59 | 0:09:00 | |
There's times when I've wanted to burn the file, | 0:09:00 | 0:09:03 | |
there's times when I think I can't go on, and I look at it | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
and I can look at him looking at me and I can hear him saying to me, | 0:09:06 | 0:09:09 | |
"Get them, Mum, get them for what they've done." And it's Kevin. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:13 | |
And if you'd known him, if you'd known the type of little boy he was, | 0:09:13 | 0:09:16 | |
he was fighting to save the world, the Green... | 0:09:16 | 0:09:19 | |
He was clever at school. He wouldn't have wanted them to brush him away. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:22 | |
People have said to me, you know, "How is your Anne? | 0:09:22 | 0:09:27 | |
"Is she still going on about Hillsborough?" | 0:09:27 | 0:09:29 | |
And I used to say, "Well, you don't know how you'd react | 0:09:31 | 0:09:34 | |
"if it happened to one of yours." | 0:09:34 | 0:09:36 | |
I don't know where she got the courage from. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:38 | |
I mean, she loved the children, | 0:09:38 | 0:09:40 | |
and that's all I can think. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:42 | |
She loved her children so much. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:44 | |
It took until 2009 for the Establishment to listen, | 0:09:51 | 0:09:55 | |
when another lone voice changed everything. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
In the middle of the service to mark the disaster's 20th anniversary | 0:09:58 | 0:10:02 | |
came the cry, "Justice". | 0:10:02 | 0:10:04 | |
-MAN: -Justice! -He asked us to think at this time... | 0:10:04 | 0:10:06 | |
CROWD SHOUTS The shouts became louder. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:08 | |
CROWD CHANTS | 0:10:08 | 0:10:12 | |
The then Minister for Sport and Culture, Andy Burnham, | 0:10:18 | 0:10:21 | |
was stopped in his tracks. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:23 | |
At a meeting at Liverpool Town Hall after the service | 0:10:23 | 0:10:26 | |
he met Anne Williams. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:28 | |
Anne got hold of Andy Burnham and wiped the floor with him, | 0:10:31 | 0:10:35 | |
really told him what was what, | 0:10:35 | 0:10:37 | |
and after that, Anne presented him with all her evidence | 0:10:37 | 0:10:42 | |
and Andy took it and, again, | 0:10:42 | 0:10:45 | |
this is why the panel was... | 0:10:45 | 0:10:47 | |
And I do thank Andy for that | 0:10:47 | 0:10:50 | |
because he did a great job. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:52 | |
Parliament has never recorded their names | 0:10:52 | 0:10:54 | |
in Hansard for posterity. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:56 | |
Well, tonight, I can at least put one wrong right. | 0:10:57 | 0:11:01 | |
John Alfred Anderson, 62. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:05 | |
-Colin Mark Ashcroft, 19. -HE CLEARS HIS THROAT | 0:11:10 | 0:11:12 | |
The tide had turned. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:15 | |
The names of all 96 who died at Hillsborough were read out | 0:11:15 | 0:11:18 | |
for the first time in the House of Commons. | 0:11:18 | 0:11:20 | |
Martin Kenneth Wild, 29. | 0:11:20 | 0:11:24 | |
Kevin Daniel Williams, 15. | 0:11:24 | 0:11:27 | |
Graham John Wright, 17. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:31 | |
Rest in peace, justice for the 96. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:33 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:11:33 | 0:11:37 | |
The Government agreed to release | 0:11:37 | 0:11:38 | |
all the documents relating to the disaster | 0:11:38 | 0:11:41 | |
so they could be scrutinised by an independent panel. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
The publication of that panel's report | 0:11:44 | 0:11:46 | |
on what became known as Truth Day in September 2012 | 0:11:46 | 0:11:49 | |
leant support to some families' claims of a cover-up, | 0:11:49 | 0:11:53 | |
detailed the failure of the emergency services, | 0:11:53 | 0:11:56 | |
and contained the harrowing news that Kevin, | 0:11:56 | 0:11:59 | |
along with 40 others, could have been saved. | 0:11:59 | 0:12:02 | |
Mr Speaker, with the weight of the new evidence in this report, | 0:12:02 | 0:12:06 | |
it is right for me today, as Prime Minister, to make a proper apology | 0:12:06 | 0:12:10 | |
to the families of the 96 for all they have suffered | 0:12:10 | 0:12:13 | |
over the past 23 years. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:16 | |
My son and 95 innocent Liverpool fans did not die in an accident. | 0:12:16 | 0:12:21 | |
They were unlawfully killed at the least. | 0:12:21 | 0:12:23 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:12:23 | 0:12:27 | |
What shocked me was 41 could have been saved. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:30 | |
We knew there'd be more, | 0:12:30 | 0:12:32 | |
but I thought perhaps a couple of dozen, but 41...! | 0:12:32 | 0:12:36 | |
God forbid, you know, that all them could have been saved. | 0:12:36 | 0:12:40 | |
She said, to her, it was like a big weight had been lifted. | 0:12:40 | 0:12:44 | |
And she said she wasn't that mad woman that went on | 0:12:44 | 0:12:47 | |
about Hillsborough any more | 0:12:47 | 0:12:48 | |
because people did think she was a bit of a lunatic. | 0:12:48 | 0:12:51 | |
Anne pressed on, organising a petition to get Kevin's inquest | 0:12:53 | 0:12:57 | |
verdict quashed and new ones opened into all those who died. | 0:12:57 | 0:13:02 | |
This was finally granted at the High Court in London, | 0:13:02 | 0:13:04 | |
where Danny accompanied his sister, | 0:13:04 | 0:13:06 | |
who had by now been diagnosed with cancer. | 0:13:06 | 0:13:09 | |
This is what I fought for for 23 years. | 0:13:09 | 0:13:12 | |
They bounced me from one wall to the other, and I knew | 0:13:12 | 0:13:14 | |
what they were doing. I thought, "They're wearing me down, | 0:13:14 | 0:13:17 | |
"but I'll wear them down before they wear me down." | 0:13:17 | 0:13:19 | |
And I've actually done it. | 0:13:19 | 0:13:21 | |
What do you think Kevin would make of his mum now? | 0:13:21 | 0:13:24 | |
I think he'd be dead proud. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:25 | |
Time ran out for Anne. | 0:13:31 | 0:13:33 | |
She died in April 2013, just days after she'd attended | 0:13:33 | 0:13:37 | |
her final Hillsborough memorial service. | 0:13:37 | 0:13:40 | |
Across Liverpool, flags flew at half-mast. | 0:13:40 | 0:13:43 | |
And later that year, her tenacity was honoured by a special | 0:13:44 | 0:13:47 | |
Sports Personality Of The Year Award. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:49 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:13:49 | 0:13:51 | |
Me mum was a good mum. She was a Hillsborough mum, | 0:13:54 | 0:13:57 | |
but she was still OUR mum. | 0:13:57 | 0:13:58 | |
She learned to deal with it differently, even the grieving side | 0:13:58 | 0:14:05 | |
of it - she grieved for Kevin in a different way. | 0:14:05 | 0:14:07 | |
It's like Kevin and Hillsborough were two separate things, | 0:14:07 | 0:14:10 | |
in a way, the way she grieved and the way she dealt with it. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:12 | |
Someone only has to mention Hillsborough to me and I go to pieces | 0:14:12 | 0:14:16 | |
Me mum didn't - she did learn to separate it. | 0:14:16 | 0:14:19 | |
But I think it's just something she had to do over the years. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:23 | |
Anne had a terrible birthmark on her face. | 0:14:25 | 0:14:29 | |
She was always conscious of it. So she was a shy little girl. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:33 | |
Obviously we were very close cos we were close together in age, | 0:14:33 | 0:14:37 | |
only 18 months, and it's nothing when you're children. | 0:14:37 | 0:14:41 | |
So all my friends were Anne's friends, and certainly | 0:14:41 | 0:14:44 | |
when we were smaller, and Anne was always just behind me, | 0:14:44 | 0:14:50 | |
always just behind me. | 0:14:50 | 0:14:53 | |
And to me, I've said it before, | 0:14:53 | 0:14:56 | |
like, she always says she looked up to me, | 0:14:56 | 0:14:58 | |
but...for many years I looked up to her. | 0:14:58 | 0:15:01 | |
The new inquests begin in spring 2014, in a specially built courtroom | 0:15:09 | 0:15:13 | |
on a business park in Warrington. | 0:15:13 | 0:15:15 | |
Expected to last for six months, they open with each family | 0:15:15 | 0:15:20 | |
delivering a pen portrait of their loved one - | 0:15:20 | 0:15:22 | |
an emotional moment for Sara, whose mother fought so hard | 0:15:22 | 0:15:26 | |
for Kevin's case to be reopened. | 0:15:26 | 0:15:28 | |
I did it for me mum more than Kevin, I suppose, | 0:15:28 | 0:15:31 | |
because she would have done it. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:33 | |
She would have loved her moment in court to be able to stand up | 0:15:33 | 0:15:35 | |
and talk about him. So I said I'd do it. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:38 | |
I really looked up to our Kev, and I wanted to go wherever he went | 0:15:40 | 0:15:43 | |
and hang around with him. | 0:15:43 | 0:15:45 | |
Most older brothers would get fed up with a little sister | 0:15:45 | 0:15:48 | |
following him everywhere, but Kev didn't mind me tagging along. | 0:15:48 | 0:15:51 | |
My mum fought hard over the years to get the truth uncovered | 0:15:51 | 0:15:54 | |
about what happened at Hillsborough, and it is only now that I've | 0:15:54 | 0:15:57 | |
children of my own that I understand the relentless determination | 0:15:57 | 0:16:00 | |
that came so naturally to her - because of the love | 0:16:00 | 0:16:02 | |
that she had for Kevin. | 0:16:02 | 0:16:04 | |
The inquests halt for the 25th anniversary - | 0:16:06 | 0:16:09 | |
the first service since Anne's death. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:11 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:16:13 | 0:16:15 | |
There's going to be a big crowd here today. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:19 | |
I think a lot of people... Because it's 25 years, | 0:16:19 | 0:16:21 | |
and the publicity that Hillsborough's getting, | 0:16:21 | 0:16:24 | |
I think we're going to have a full house today. | 0:16:24 | 0:16:26 | |
And people are realising now how important Hillsborough is. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:30 | |
I mean, this is going to be one of the biggest cases ever, | 0:16:30 | 0:16:33 | |
and it is, it's massive. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:36 | |
There's a much warmer reception for Andy Burnham this time, | 0:16:36 | 0:16:40 | |
and a special mention for Anne. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:43 | |
I want to end by saying something directly to Margaret, to Sue, | 0:16:43 | 0:16:48 | |
Trevor, Jenni and all the families, | 0:16:48 | 0:16:50 | |
and I only wish I could say it | 0:16:50 | 0:16:53 | |
to Anne Williams, whose memory we also honour today. | 0:16:53 | 0:16:56 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:16:56 | 0:16:58 | |
I mean, I must admit I did break down, I couldn't control myself. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:11 | |
I couldn't hold back the tears. | 0:17:11 | 0:17:14 | |
It did get to me, but for it to happen today, | 0:17:14 | 0:17:17 | |
I just wish Anne could have been there to see that. | 0:17:17 | 0:17:20 | |
I'd been going one day a week. | 0:17:23 | 0:17:26 | |
To be honest, it's enough for me to absorb at the moment. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:30 | |
But I do look at the transcripts - the solicitors send us | 0:17:30 | 0:17:34 | |
transcripts of the case, and I do read those. | 0:17:34 | 0:17:38 | |
And I keep myself informed if I can. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:41 | |
But there's a lot going on. There's an awful lot to take in as well. | 0:17:41 | 0:17:45 | |
A former senior police officer has admitted that he should have | 0:17:45 | 0:17:48 | |
realised a major incident was unfolding at Hillsborough | 0:17:48 | 0:17:51 | |
on the day of the tragedy in 1989. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:53 | |
This is what's coming out all the time. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:57 | |
There was a lack of leadership. | 0:17:57 | 0:17:58 | |
Um, officers were waiting for the match commander to react, | 0:17:58 | 0:18:04 | |
and it didn't happen. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:06 | |
And this is where we are today. | 0:18:06 | 0:18:09 | |
We're now two years on, | 0:18:09 | 0:18:11 | |
coming up to two years on from the original inquest being quashed. | 0:18:11 | 0:18:16 | |
Um...and over two years since the HIP report came out. | 0:18:18 | 0:18:25 | |
And, to be honest, I thought | 0:18:25 | 0:18:27 | |
the police would have capitulated then, | 0:18:27 | 0:18:29 | |
and held their hands up and said, "That's it, we're guilty. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:34 | |
"We made a mistake and we'll take it on the chin." | 0:18:34 | 0:18:39 | |
But no, you get the arrogance now of officers standing up in court | 0:18:39 | 0:18:45 | |
and literally putting the families through hell, really. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:49 | |
Um, having to sit through videos of their loved ones, | 0:18:49 | 0:18:53 | |
horrific views of their loved ones being dragged out of the pens, | 0:18:53 | 0:18:59 | |
and it's not nice at all. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:01 | |
The inquest should have finished by now, but it's Christmas 2014, | 0:19:08 | 0:19:12 | |
and they're still only partway through the proceedings. | 0:19:12 | 0:19:15 | |
I found the survivors' accounts really upsetting, | 0:19:18 | 0:19:21 | |
when they were describing what it was like inside the pens | 0:19:21 | 0:19:24 | |
and stuff, cos it sort of makes it more real than... | 0:19:24 | 0:19:29 | |
Not so much more real, but you know what happened, | 0:19:29 | 0:19:32 | |
you know what it must have been like for Kevin, to a certain extent, | 0:19:32 | 0:19:35 | |
and the survivors. | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
But it's the police evidence that infuriates me. | 0:19:39 | 0:19:42 | |
What about it? | 0:19:44 | 0:19:45 | |
Just they way they keep saying we were drunk and their behaviour | 0:19:45 | 0:19:48 | |
was neurotic, and one said we behaved like lemmings, | 0:19:48 | 0:19:52 | |
and when asked to describe what a lemming was, | 0:19:52 | 0:19:55 | |
he said it was an animal that self-destructed. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:58 | |
In other words, some of them were basically saying they brought it | 0:19:58 | 0:20:01 | |
on themselves, aren't they? | 0:20:01 | 0:20:02 | |
They all seem to be pointing back to that police control box | 0:20:02 | 0:20:05 | |
as well, don't they? | 0:20:05 | 0:20:07 | |
So they're sort of blaming the fans, but in backup they're placing it | 0:20:07 | 0:20:11 | |
back to the police control box - | 0:20:11 | 0:20:12 | |
in other words they're just turning it on Duckenfield, aren't they? | 0:20:12 | 0:20:15 | |
David Duckenfield was the match commander at Hillsborough. | 0:20:15 | 0:20:19 | |
It was his first time in charge of a capacity football match. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:22 | |
And he is the person the families most want to hear from, | 0:20:22 | 0:20:25 | |
since their failed private prosecution against him in 2000. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:30 | |
On the day of the disaster he wrongfully blamed fans | 0:20:30 | 0:20:33 | |
for forcing open an exit gate to gain access to the ground. | 0:20:33 | 0:20:36 | |
How are you feeling, Sara? | 0:20:51 | 0:20:53 | |
Nervous. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:54 | |
I've got a bad stomach. | 0:20:57 | 0:20:59 | |
In March 2015, the former Superintendent is called | 0:20:59 | 0:21:03 | |
to the inquest to be cross-examined as a witness. | 0:21:03 | 0:21:06 | |
Sara and Danny feel tense as they drive to the court. | 0:21:06 | 0:21:09 | |
It is a bit surreal, isn't it? | 0:21:09 | 0:21:12 | |
Coming face-to-face with him. | 0:21:12 | 0:21:13 | |
After all these years. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:16 | |
It's just sad that Anne couldn't see it this far. | 0:21:18 | 0:21:22 | |
I think she would be glad to see him in the court. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:28 | |
She always knew, unless she got another inquest, she would probably | 0:21:28 | 0:21:32 | |
never see him in court. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:33 | |
With all the other avenues she's been down, | 0:21:35 | 0:21:37 | |
she never thought she'd ever get Duckenfield. | 0:21:37 | 0:21:40 | |
But nothing had prepared them for what happened that day. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
Our top story. | 0:21:43 | 0:21:45 | |
Gasps in court as the top policeman at Hillsborough | 0:21:45 | 0:21:48 | |
admits lying about the disaster... | 0:21:48 | 0:21:50 | |
A police commander at the Hillsborough disaster tells | 0:21:50 | 0:21:53 | |
an inquest he will regret lying about the tragedy to his dying day. | 0:21:53 | 0:21:56 | |
Former Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield... | 0:21:56 | 0:21:59 | |
The double apology in court today from David Duckenfield, | 0:21:59 | 0:22:03 | |
one directed at the families who lost loved ones, for the distress | 0:22:03 | 0:22:07 | |
and upset that he caused by that lie, | 0:22:07 | 0:22:09 | |
and a second apology also, for not thinking about the consequences | 0:22:09 | 0:22:12 | |
of some of the decision-making that he did that day. | 0:22:12 | 0:22:15 | |
Back in the car, Danny and Sara are stunned by his admission. | 0:22:15 | 0:22:19 | |
Just wasn't expecting it. | 0:22:20 | 0:22:22 | |
It was a bit of a shock, really. | 0:22:24 | 0:22:26 | |
But he should have said it years ago, shouldn't he? | 0:22:27 | 0:22:30 | |
It is quite a serious thing - a senior officer now has | 0:22:30 | 0:22:33 | |
admitted he told a lie. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:35 | |
It was a shock in court. | 0:22:36 | 0:22:38 | |
Certainly from where we were sat. | 0:22:38 | 0:22:40 | |
There was quite a lot of tears, of...I think it was just relief, | 0:22:40 | 0:22:44 | |
that actually he has admitted something which in the past, | 0:22:44 | 0:22:48 | |
you wouldn't get him to admit anything, | 0:22:48 | 0:22:51 | |
he was so arrogant, still is. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:53 | |
Sara, what was it like seeing him face-to-face? | 0:22:53 | 0:22:55 | |
Because you were quite apprehensive this morning? | 0:22:55 | 0:22:58 | |
Oh, it was horrible. | 0:22:58 | 0:23:00 | |
As soon as he walked in, I started crying. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:02 | |
It is like an anxiety thing coming face-to-face with him. | 0:23:03 | 0:23:07 | |
But I feel better now I have. | 0:23:08 | 0:23:09 | |
And in the days to come, there are more revelations | 0:23:12 | 0:23:15 | |
from the former Chief Superintendent. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:17 | |
Today another admission, when the man who was in charge | 0:23:17 | 0:23:21 | |
of policing at Hillsborough said his failures had caused | 0:23:21 | 0:23:24 | |
the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans. | 0:23:24 | 0:23:28 | |
We expected a bigger fight from him, to be quite honest with you. | 0:23:28 | 0:23:32 | |
But...he sort of must have come to terms with it himself | 0:23:32 | 0:23:38 | |
and got it off his chest, after 26 years. | 0:23:38 | 0:23:41 | |
The 26th anniversary of the disaster is a subdued affair, as the long, | 0:23:44 | 0:23:48 | |
drawn-out process takes its toll on the families. | 0:23:48 | 0:23:51 | |
Danny joins members of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign | 0:23:51 | 0:23:54 | |
at the memorial in Liverpool city centre. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:57 | |
This is the Drum, they call it now, the memorial. | 0:23:57 | 0:24:00 | |
And, yeah, it's a place to come and reflect. | 0:24:03 | 0:24:05 | |
I often come - it's nice on a sunny day, um, | 0:24:05 | 0:24:09 | |
just to say hello to Kev and have a little chat. | 0:24:09 | 0:24:13 | |
It's just a way of remembering, and showing respect. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:18 | |
The families are very, very dignified and, to me, | 0:24:18 | 0:24:24 | |
sometimes in court when you feel like really standing up | 0:24:24 | 0:24:28 | |
and saying something, but you can't, you can't. | 0:24:28 | 0:24:32 | |
Nobody has ever done that yet, and I don't think they ever will. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:36 | |
All we want is justice. | 0:24:36 | 0:24:39 | |
And hopefully we'll get it. | 0:24:39 | 0:24:41 | |
The last thing we want is you to leave the courtroom | 0:24:43 | 0:24:46 | |
at the end of this process thinking, "I wish they'd asked that." | 0:24:46 | 0:24:49 | |
18 months after the start of the process, it'll soon be time | 0:24:49 | 0:24:53 | |
for the inquest to hear what happened to Kevin. | 0:24:53 | 0:24:56 | |
Sara and Danny meet with their legal team. They're pleased to hear | 0:24:56 | 0:24:59 | |
that for the first time, two police officers Anne tracked down | 0:24:59 | 0:25:03 | |
and who said Kevin was alive after 3:15, will be giving evidence. | 0:25:03 | 0:25:08 | |
This is key evidence. | 0:25:08 | 0:25:09 | |
These are two police officers who were there, | 0:25:09 | 0:25:13 | |
and although you've been left over the years | 0:25:13 | 0:25:17 | |
with more question marks than answers, | 0:25:17 | 0:25:19 | |
this is our final opportunity to work out exactly what | 0:25:19 | 0:25:25 | |
happened with Kevin and the process that he went through. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:30 | |
The night before Kevin's inquest, everyone is apprehensive | 0:25:31 | 0:25:35 | |
as the evidence Anne gathered will finally be put to the test. | 0:25:35 | 0:25:38 | |
The kids have kept me busy. | 0:25:38 | 0:25:40 | |
I suppose I've been dreading it, but now it's tomorrow, | 0:25:40 | 0:25:45 | |
I feel a lot better knowing it's here. | 0:25:45 | 0:25:47 | |
It's just, trying to come to terms that my mum is not here to see it. | 0:25:47 | 0:25:52 | |
-Is that the toughest part for you? -Yes. | 0:25:57 | 0:26:00 | |
Because a lot of it we've known anyway, | 0:26:00 | 0:26:02 | |
from what my mum found out, but actually hearing it in court, | 0:26:02 | 0:26:06 | |
and her not being there to witness it, after all the hard work she did. | 0:26:06 | 0:26:10 | |
No wonder Anne was fired up. There was no way | 0:26:10 | 0:26:13 | |
she was going to give up on it, no matter what anybody said. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:16 | |
This is a day of reckoning, and if we don't get them now, | 0:26:16 | 0:26:19 | |
we'll never get them. | 0:26:19 | 0:26:20 | |
Finally, it's the day of Kevin's inquest, a day for which his mother | 0:26:35 | 0:26:38 | |
Anne fought so hard, a day his family barely believed would come. | 0:26:38 | 0:26:43 | |
Kevin's case will take longer than any of the other victims, | 0:26:43 | 0:26:47 | |
such is the volume of evidence painstakingly uncovered by his mum. | 0:26:47 | 0:26:51 | |
We'll just bring you in here, just for a minute. We'll set up. | 0:26:51 | 0:26:56 | |
I just want to get on with it and get it over, so... | 0:26:56 | 0:27:01 | |
I do realise there'll be a lot of interest and all that, | 0:27:01 | 0:27:04 | |
but I can't handle the press like Anne could. She was very good at it. | 0:27:04 | 0:27:09 | |
I know this is a very difficult day for you, | 0:27:09 | 0:27:12 | |
-but so important to have got to this point now. -Oh, definitely, yeah. | 0:27:12 | 0:27:17 | |
Yeah, definitely. I mean, it took Anne's life to get here. | 0:27:17 | 0:27:21 | |
And for Kevin as well, very much in your thoughts today. | 0:27:22 | 0:27:25 | |
Oh, yeah, very much so, yeah. Very much so. | 0:27:25 | 0:27:28 | |
-Thank you. -OK. | 0:27:29 | 0:27:32 | |
It's the first opportunity that many witnesses found by Anne have | 0:27:32 | 0:27:35 | |
had to give their version of events. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:38 | |
Derek Bruder, an off duty policeman, said he found a pulse on Kevin | 0:27:38 | 0:27:42 | |
at 3:30, 15 minutes after the original inquest said he had died. | 0:27:42 | 0:27:47 | |
He also claimed in court he was persuaded to change his statement. | 0:27:47 | 0:27:51 | |
'PC Bruder also told the jury about a visit he had about a year after | 0:27:51 | 0:27:56 | |
'the disaster from a West Midlands Police officer' | 0:27:56 | 0:27:58 | |
called Matthew Sawers. West Midlands Police, don't forget, | 0:27:58 | 0:28:01 | |
had been asked to help the coroner with the original inquest. | 0:28:01 | 0:28:04 | |
He said that Mr Sawers tried to get him to change his story, | 0:28:04 | 0:28:07 | |
to say he might have been mistaken about Kevin Williams having a pulse. | 0:28:07 | 0:28:12 | |
At one stage, Mr Bruder was on the phone to | 0:28:12 | 0:28:14 | |
a pathologist from the Sheffield coroner's officer, and he said | 0:28:14 | 0:28:18 | |
he then bowed to superior medical knowledge and did change his story. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:21 | |
He said this was a deliberate attempt to put words into his mouth. | 0:28:21 | 0:28:26 | |
But he's told the jury he now sticks by his original account | 0:28:26 | 0:28:30 | |
that Kevin Williams did have a pulse when he was with him. | 0:28:30 | 0:28:34 | |
Matthew Sawers denied putting any pressure on Derek Bruder to | 0:28:34 | 0:28:37 | |
change his statement and said the amendments were the result | 0:28:37 | 0:28:40 | |
of PC Bruder reflecting on his first statement and adding further detail. | 0:28:40 | 0:28:46 | |
He said the second statement was written prior to the | 0:28:46 | 0:28:48 | |
telephone conversation between PC Bruder and the pathologist | 0:28:48 | 0:28:52 | |
and wasn't subsequently changed. | 0:28:52 | 0:28:55 | |
Crucially, Debra Martin is also allowed to speak at this inquest. | 0:28:55 | 0:28:59 | |
She repeats her claim to the jury that Kevin died | 0:28:59 | 0:29:02 | |
in her arms at 4pm, his last words being "Mum." | 0:29:02 | 0:29:06 | |
She also claims Julie Appleton, a West Midlands Police officer, | 0:29:06 | 0:29:10 | |
convinced her to change her statement. | 0:29:10 | 0:29:12 | |
Miss Martin says she was put under extreme pressure. | 0:29:13 | 0:29:16 | |
Now, a barrister for Miss Appleton said that she rejects Miss Martin's | 0:29:16 | 0:29:21 | |
version of events. | 0:29:21 | 0:29:23 | |
In court, Julie Appleton said she only visited Debra once | 0:29:23 | 0:29:26 | |
and she didn't put pressure on her, didn't try to get her to | 0:29:26 | 0:29:29 | |
alter the statement and was only searching for the truth. | 0:29:29 | 0:29:33 | |
She said, "It was Debra's statement | 0:29:33 | 0:29:35 | |
"and it was up to her what she included in that." | 0:29:35 | 0:29:39 | |
Back home, Kevin's Uncle Danny reflects on the day. | 0:29:39 | 0:29:43 | |
I thank them both on behalf of the family, | 0:29:43 | 0:29:45 | |
and all the other families, for what they did. | 0:29:45 | 0:29:48 | |
Because I feel very strongly that they did it for us. | 0:29:48 | 0:29:51 | |
Does it matter now what time Kevin died? | 0:29:51 | 0:29:55 | |
No, not really. | 0:29:55 | 0:29:57 | |
It's just the fact that they... | 0:29:57 | 0:30:01 | |
they felt it was important, not... | 0:30:01 | 0:30:04 | |
More so than us. It was them that wanted to change the times, not us. | 0:30:04 | 0:30:10 | |
They wanted it to fit in with the 3:15 cut-off time. | 0:30:10 | 0:30:14 | |
-And they did their utmost to do that. -And how are you feeling now? | 0:30:14 | 0:30:19 | |
Um, I'm OK. | 0:30:19 | 0:30:22 | |
Yeah, I feel OK. Er... | 0:30:24 | 0:30:28 | |
There's always... | 0:30:28 | 0:30:30 | |
It's always... | 0:30:30 | 0:30:32 | |
always in your mind, no matter what happens, | 0:30:32 | 0:30:34 | |
it's not going to bring him back, that's the hard bit. | 0:30:34 | 0:30:39 | |
We know that Kevin was transported the length of the pitch... | 0:30:41 | 0:30:45 | |
Some months later, it's time for the jury to hear | 0:30:45 | 0:30:47 | |
the evidence of pathologists who have pored over | 0:30:47 | 0:30:50 | |
the details of Kevin's last moments | 0:30:50 | 0:30:52 | |
and concluded that Kevin probably died around 3:45, | 0:30:52 | 0:30:56 | |
so it's not medically plausible he could have regained | 0:30:56 | 0:30:59 | |
consciousness and uttered the word "Mum" to Debra Martin. | 0:30:59 | 0:31:03 | |
We've established he's gone past the 3:15 cut-off time, | 0:31:03 | 0:31:07 | |
and with care, | 0:31:07 | 0:31:10 | |
another half an hour, he could, with care, | 0:31:10 | 0:31:14 | |
if they've initiated the major incident | 0:31:14 | 0:31:17 | |
and got ambulances on the pitch, have also established that, with oxygen, | 0:31:17 | 0:31:21 | |
Kevin, with a bag and mask, he could have survived. | 0:31:21 | 0:31:25 | |
-We heard some quite graphic evidence, didn't we? -Horrific. | 0:31:25 | 0:31:28 | |
I don't want to do that again. | 0:31:31 | 0:31:33 | |
And I'm glad Sara stayed away. | 0:31:33 | 0:31:35 | |
The jury in the new Hillsborough inquest has retired to | 0:31:45 | 0:31:48 | |
consider its conclusions about how 96 Liverpool fans | 0:31:48 | 0:31:52 | |
died at an FA Cup semifinal in 1989. | 0:31:52 | 0:31:56 | |
In what has now become the longest inquest in British legal history, | 0:31:56 | 0:31:59 | |
two years after they were sworn in, | 0:31:59 | 0:32:02 | |
the jurors are at last sent out to consider the evidence. | 0:32:02 | 0:32:06 | |
The coroner reminded the jury today that one of the questions | 0:32:06 | 0:32:09 | |
they'll have to answer is whether the 96 were unlawfully killed. | 0:32:09 | 0:32:14 | |
To decide that, they must consider whether the match commander, | 0:32:14 | 0:32:17 | |
David Duckenfield, breached any duty of care he may have owed | 0:32:17 | 0:32:21 | |
to the fans, and whether that breach was grossly negligent. | 0:32:21 | 0:32:25 | |
At last, really, yeah. | 0:32:25 | 0:32:28 | |
I mean, the families have sat through harrowing | 0:32:28 | 0:32:31 | |
evidence for two years now, and sat there with dignity | 0:32:31 | 0:32:35 | |
and patience, waiting for the jury to go out, and now we're waiting for | 0:32:35 | 0:32:39 | |
the results, so hopefully, fingers crossed, we'll get the right result. | 0:32:39 | 0:32:43 | |
It's quite emotional in court, lots of tugs and a few tears as well. | 0:32:43 | 0:32:47 | |
The families are very close, they're very supportive of each other. | 0:32:47 | 0:32:51 | |
You know, we've bonded over the last two years. | 0:32:51 | 0:32:54 | |
Well, over the last 27 years, really. | 0:32:54 | 0:32:56 | |
But certainly over the last two years. | 0:32:56 | 0:32:59 | |
Just over a week later and it's the anniversary of the disaster. | 0:33:01 | 0:33:04 | |
It's the last memorial service the families will hold at Anfield, | 0:33:04 | 0:33:08 | |
and 96 doves are released in memory of those who died. | 0:33:08 | 0:33:11 | |
I was hoping it would have been done with now before the anniversary. | 0:33:14 | 0:33:18 | |
But I am relieved we've gone out. It's just the waiting, isn't it, now? | 0:33:19 | 0:33:23 | |
It's just... | 0:33:23 | 0:33:24 | |
Just want it over with and just start a new life without Hillsborough. | 0:33:26 | 0:33:29 | |
And how does that feel, waiting for that call? | 0:33:29 | 0:33:32 | |
I thought I'd be a nightmare, to be honest, | 0:33:32 | 0:33:35 | |
but I feel quite calm about it, because we're working on it now | 0:33:35 | 0:33:39 | |
and we're doing it, so our lives are basically in their hands, aren't they? | 0:33:39 | 0:33:43 | |
But it's a nice feeling knowing that we're doing it now. | 0:33:43 | 0:33:48 | |
Sara doesn't have long to wait. | 0:33:51 | 0:33:54 | |
Less than three weeks after being sent out, | 0:33:54 | 0:33:56 | |
the jurors say they've reached their conclusions. | 0:33:56 | 0:33:58 | |
For their final trip to the inquest, | 0:33:58 | 0:34:01 | |
the families travel together on a coach. | 0:34:01 | 0:34:03 | |
I'm very nervous. | 0:34:09 | 0:34:11 | |
It's hard to think it could go any other way but the way we want. | 0:34:12 | 0:34:18 | |
But there's always that... There's 27 years of mistrust, | 0:34:18 | 0:34:22 | |
and you just can't relax, nobody can relax. | 0:34:22 | 0:34:26 | |
All of the families are the same. Until we hear it, we can't. | 0:34:26 | 0:34:32 | |
Outside the inquest there's a long queue to get in, | 0:34:32 | 0:34:36 | |
and the wait is almost too much for Sara. | 0:34:36 | 0:34:38 | |
-Tell me how you're feeling, Sara? -A bit sick. Nervous. Just... | 0:34:38 | 0:34:44 | |
Tomorrow's a new day, isn't it? | 0:34:44 | 0:34:47 | |
You've waited a long time for this, haven't you, Sara? | 0:34:47 | 0:34:50 | |
Start of a new life tomorrow, every outcome. | 0:34:50 | 0:34:53 | |
The jurors had 14 questions to consider, | 0:34:57 | 0:35:00 | |
and their answers come in rapid succession. | 0:35:00 | 0:35:03 | |
Most importantly, the jury decides the behaviour of fans didn't | 0:35:03 | 0:35:07 | |
contribute to the disaster, and all 96 were unlawfully killed. | 0:35:07 | 0:35:12 | |
Fantastic, unbelievable, 14-0 to the families. | 0:35:14 | 0:35:18 | |
I just can't believe it. | 0:35:18 | 0:35:20 | |
They went through the questions so quickly, it was hard to take in. | 0:35:20 | 0:35:24 | |
Unanimous - we couldn't ask for anything better. | 0:35:25 | 0:35:28 | |
Just tell me how you feel about the result. | 0:35:28 | 0:35:31 | |
Over the moon. I can't... Still in shock, really. | 0:35:32 | 0:35:37 | |
Just looking forward to getting on with our lives tomorrow. | 0:35:37 | 0:35:40 | |
Tell me what happened in court, | 0:35:40 | 0:35:41 | |
what was it like when the verdict was announced? | 0:35:41 | 0:35:44 | |
It was a bit surreal. I don't think... We were all hoping for unlawful killing, | 0:35:46 | 0:35:50 | |
but I don't think we were actually going to get it. | 0:35:50 | 0:35:52 | |
But we've swept the board. | 0:35:52 | 0:35:54 | |
-You got absolutely everything you wanted, didn't you? -Everything. | 0:35:55 | 0:35:59 | |
It's just a shame that my mum | 0:35:59 | 0:36:02 | |
and other families that died aren't here to see it. | 0:36:02 | 0:36:06 | |
She'd be absolutely thrilled with that, wouldn't she? | 0:36:06 | 0:36:09 | |
She's definitely looking down today. | 0:36:09 | 0:36:11 | |
As soon as question six came up, | 0:36:11 | 0:36:13 | |
the unlawful killing verdict came up, | 0:36:13 | 0:36:16 | |
and they said yes, everybody cheered. | 0:36:16 | 0:36:20 | |
It was a gasp of... You could feel it in the air and everybody cheered. | 0:36:20 | 0:36:24 | |
There was a lot of tears. Myself included. Just couldn't believe it. | 0:36:24 | 0:36:29 | |
And then question seven, about the fans' behaviour, | 0:36:29 | 0:36:32 | |
that was another one we were worried about. | 0:36:32 | 0:36:34 | |
But it came through, it came through. | 0:36:34 | 0:36:37 | |
The fans have been vindicated, quite rightly. Quite rightly. | 0:36:37 | 0:36:42 | |
It's just sad that Anne can't be here. | 0:36:42 | 0:36:44 | |
Justice! | 0:36:44 | 0:36:46 | |
It's over now, it's over now. | 0:36:51 | 0:36:54 | |
And I'm absolutely made up. | 0:36:54 | 0:36:56 |