Wednesday, 16 November 2016

Hillsborough families criticise police chief over witch-hunt claim in book

Sir Norman Bettison claims in Hillsborough Untold that there was never a conspiracy to blame supporters for the disaster

Sir Norman Bettison, the former chief constable of Merseyside police, has been criticised by families of people unlawfully killed at Hillsborough in 1989 for writing a book about the disaster in which he portrays himself as the victim of a witch-hunt.

In the book, Hillsborough Untold, Bettison acknowledges he is a suspect in the ongoing criminal investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission into an alleged cover-up by South Yorkshire police.

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