Cable Forum - View Single Post - Government to appeal release of Hillsborough Files

**Damien** · 24-08-2011, 20:04

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Originally Posted by Masque

I expect more would have been alive if the police had allowed the ambulances access to the ground rather than holding them back even though they know people were dying, I wonder if that officer that gave that order feels he has a clear conscience.

I doubt they did it out of spite. Clear thinking is not that easy in the mist of a crisis..

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Good article here that cuts though some of the posturing:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/d...ependent-panel

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The Cabinet Office has emphasised that it does intend to release all the papers it holds on Hillsborough. The question being wrestled over is about how they are released. The Cabinet Office says it wants to provide them to the independent panel set up last year specifically to read, publish a report, then release to the families and public, all the Hillsborough documents. The BBC, though, has a freedom of information request which the information commissioner has said should be granted, in the public interest, and therefore the papers should simply be published immediately, bypassing the panel....

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This disclosure is a huge breakthrough in the families' long campaign for the unvarnished truth, prompted by two Merseyside MPs and the then ministers Andy Burnham and Maria Eagle. But the Hillsborough Family Support Group, which represents the majority of the bereaved families, came quickly to believe, along with Burnham, Eagle and the public bodies involved, that some kind of process was required to make sense of the outpouring of documents. That is why the independent panel was set up, precisely to reach a clearer understanding of the documents' significance, and, critically, to share them with the families first, before releasing them to the wider public, which it has a duty to do.