Superintendent Lying At The Hillsborough Inquest

[Hymie]

[Read this ASAP, as all my previous posts critical of South Yorkshire Police have been promptly removed]

Although it might have been a genuine mistake – if so, I would have expected the Beeb to have reported the Hillsborough event he did police, which he had confused with the match of Boxing Day 1989.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-29723819

[Peter Pedant]

well I could disguise the thread with comment:

really darling - that is awful ! and a flood of other mimsie comments we are so used to :-)

at least you didnt say perjury..... Hymie - people do make mistakes and he has done the 'right' thing in 'fessing up immediately. I can't imagine he set out to deceive....
BUT
the context is obviously - "when I was doing Hillsboro' it was rugby and I did it with 12 officers because rugby fans arent animals... "

which is the cleaned up version of - and the football fans were pi++ing on the bodies every one knows that ......

and betrays an unfortunate mindset.

Hillsboro has a parallel with the historic child abuse inquiry which has still not got off the ground. And that is - if you dont get it right first time, the whole thing hangs around for 20years....

....

Police lying so they dont get blamed....
is this really news

I would like to know the back-story: like who took the trouble to find out what was running on boxing day 1989 and how did they know he wasnt there ?

[Gromit]

Sounds like a genuine error. But it does make his evidence unreliable. If he was telling the Inquiry he attended a previous match at Hillsborough when one had not taken place, then you have to wonder what else was a figment of his imagination.

[mikey4444]

A Policeman lying ? In court ?

I can't possibly believe that !