Hillsborough: Justice Is Nearing

Today, 19th December 2012. 23 years after the inquests into the deaths at Hillsborough began in Sheffield, the families and people of Merseyside experienced the anguish of those resulting inquests. From the cut off point imposed by the coroner of 3.15 to the resulting verdict Accidental Deaths.

Since the Hillsborough Independent Panel's report in September, only did the world know what the people in the city of Liverpool knew all along had come to light. The disaster effected the families but also the people who had survived and suffered with the aftermath, some didn't cope.

The Attorney General's petition to the High Court to quash the inquest verdicts which the families had campaigned for years. Anne Williams, a hero to any parent has gone to lengths no parent should have to ever go to find out how her son died at the age of just 15. He was alive after the cut off point, like many of the families Anne never collected her son's death cert. The cause of death -  accidental death - was written on Kevin's like all the other people who died that.

Thankfully today another wrong has been righted, albeit too many years later when the likes of Anne has had to suffer unbelievably over that period. The Lord Justice quashed the verdicts and has ordered new inquests, for everyone now will come the new inquests. It's a pity that the new inquests are not going to take place in Liverpool, which it should of been. Despite that, justice is getting that bit closer. For all the groups, HFH, HJC and the HFSG, survivors 2012 has been a year of vindication.

Whenever the new inquests begins, the focus now should be on convictions of the people of the day. The FA, who criminally as the organisation of holding the match in a ground that was unsafe deserve to be in the dock alongside Bettison, Duckenfield et. al. For now, the Justice Collective single "He Ain't Heavy He Is My Brother" help it get to Number 1 for Christmas and help these extraordinary people complete their journey.