Dalglish: ‘Total vindication’

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Former Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish believes an inquests jury ruling that the 96 victims who died in the Hillsborough disaster had been unlawfully killed serves as total vindication for the relatives and supporters of the club following a 27-year battle for the truth.

The deaths were ruled accidental at the end of the original 1991 inquest.

But those verdicts were quashed following the 2012 Hillsborough Independent Panel report, which concluded that a major cover-up had taken place in an effort by police and others to avoid the blame for what happened.

The new jury concluded on Tuesday that blunders by the police and ambulance service on the day had “caused or contributed” to the disaster and that the victims had been unlawfully killed.

Dalglish told BBC Radio: “The fans have been totally vindicated, and the families have been victorious in everything they put forwards. The truth they …

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