A GRIEVING MOTHER FOUGHT THE BRITISH ESTABLISHMENT FOR 24 YEARS AND PROVED IT WRONG FROM THE GRAVE
Kevin Williams was 15 when he died at Hillsborough on 15 April 1989. The original inquest ruled every single death happened by 3.15pm and refused to consider any evidence after that point.
Convenient cutoff. It meant nobody ever had to explain why an ambulance never reached him, or whether he could have survived.
His mother Anne Williams was not satisfied with convenient. She had medical evidence suggesting Kevin was alive well after the official cutoff.
South Yorkshire Police had a simpler version of events, one that blamed dying fans for their own deaths and altered statements to fit it.
So Anne spent the next two decades doing the job the police, the coroner, and the government should have done properly the first time.
She set up Hope For Hillsborough, then chaired the Hillsborough Justice Campaign @HJC_Official. She petitioned the Attorney General three times. Over 118,000 people signed her call for a fresh inquest. The establishment's strategy was simple. Wait her out.
It didn't work. In 2012 the Hillsborough Independent Panel confirmed what campaigners had said for years, the original verdicts were built on doctored evidence. The verdicts were quashed and a fresh inquest was ordered into all 96 deaths.
Anne died of cancer in April 2013, two weeks before that fresh inquest began. She never lived to hear the 2016 verdict that all 96 were killed. Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram @MetroMayorSteve, who has campaigned for a Hillsborough Law ever since, called her fight a symbol of unbreakable maternal love.
@BBC gave her a posthumous award later that year. A nice gesture, 24 years late.
The lesson is not complicated. One mother with no legal training out-investigated a police force, a coroner, and most of Whitehall, just by refusing to accept a story that didn't add up. If the truth had been told in 1989, none of this would have been necessary. It wasn't, so she made them tell it anyway.
Next time someone tells you to drop it and move on, think of Anne Williams. She didn't, and the country is still catching up to what she proved.
Sources: @guardian@BBCNews@Channel4News@LivEchonews
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The report stage will take place on Monday, and as it stands, the duty of candour will not apply in full to Intelligence Services.
In the current amendment will allow the Head of Intelligence Services to decide what evidence is submitted to a public inquiry or inquest.
This will enable them to continue to "put their best case forward" and potentially omit their wrong doings then use "National Security" as the reason for doing so.
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This happened at the Inquiry into the Manchester Arena Terrorist Attack. MI5 did not provide all information that they had.
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