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.”