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Floral tributes left at a Hillsborough memorial in Old Haymarket, Liverpool HOW must the families of the Hillsborough victims be feeling this week? I can’t begin to imagine. On Wednesday, the case against two South Yorkshire policemen and the force’s former solicitor who had been charged with perverting the course of justice for amending police statements following the deadly crush at an FA Cup semi-final game in Sheffield in 1989 was stopped by the trial judge. Mr Justice William Davies ruled that there was no legal case to answer because the altered police statements were prepared for Lord Justice Taylor’s public inquiry into the disaster. The inquiry, he ruled, was a non-statutory inquiry – an “administrative exercise” the judge said – and as such “not a course of public justice.”
<strong>Editorial: </strong>The families’ determination made them a beacon for other campaigners. But while they forced the truth into the open, the courts let them down
The trial of retired police officers and a solicitor accused of amending statements to cover up failures during the Hillsborough disaster has collapsed. Former chief superintendent Donald Denton, retired detective chief inspector Alan Foster, and Peter Metcalf, who was a solicitor for South Yorkshire Police at the time, applied to have the case against them dismissed after a month of evidence in a trial that had been awaited for decades by the.