SPLIT FROM Incident & Outcome

[Hip Priest]

Ouch! Your leg looks bad in the photo.

I won't answer your questions, Classic, because it is not my place to do that. It matters not a jot to me whether you are a deluded fantasist or someone who has been greatly wronged by the IPCC and a whole raft of serving police officers up to a fairly senior rank.

I believe the former.

If it is the latter, a newspaper or a TV channel will find you and get all investigative about it and right the shocking, distressing and disturbing wrong that has been visited upon you.

Along the way, several serving or former police officers wil be convicted and it will hit the news.

If I'm right, nothing will be heard of it again and we can all go back to worrying about alien abduction and mustard in our toothpaste.

If I read about the convictions that would SURELY follow so grave a case of criminal misconduct as this, I will apologise and even send flowers.

If I do, it will be sincere. Until then, I wish you and your believers a happy fantasy.

Glenn Forger is quite right. You should ignore me. I think you knew that, but somehow you haven't been able to stop yourself from responding. From now on, I strongly recommend that you do.

It took the Hillsborough families over 20 years of campaigning to uncover the truth about the disaster, and people still haven't been brought to justice. Their campaign involved the biggest UK peacetime loss of life in any of our lifetimes and their campaign was funded by thousands upon thousands of football supporters and well known celebrities and artists.

What makes you think that a lone cyclist making a complaint about low-level corruption over a driving offence would lead to prosecutions and media coverage?

I enjoy your posts very much but I think you've called it wrong on this occasion.

 

[glenn forger]

Boris if you believe this type of thing doesn't happen you should read up on Hillsborough.

Ch 4 news:

500 people have already got in touch with the Independent Police Complaints Commission just 48 hours after it asked to hear from anyone who gave evidence to the West Midlands Police about the 1989 Hillsborough football tragedy.

The IPCC has already discovered a mass of statements from police officers which were subsequently doctored.

the county next to classic33.

 

[gambatte]

Orgreave.....

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Orgreave.....

NUM funds and Arthurs' house...

 

[gambatte]

NUM funds and Arthurs' house...

Yep. I’m definitely not one sided.

There were plenty of victims and plenty sitting pretty.

I had mates in companies supplying the pits. They had no say so in whether the strike went ahead. They just sat there as the order book dried up and they lost their jobs. I also knew lads on strike that spent their time running round the country collecting donations to help the miners. They came back with stories of what a great time they’d had.....

Then there’s the story of the plod brass who turned up at the colliery entrance picket in winter and saw a snowman. Told someone to get in a vehicle and knock it over.

Didn’t know it was built round a bollard...

 

[Shaun]

Hillborough and the miners' strike ... I think this would be a good time to bring the thread to a close.

@classic33 if there are any updates you want to make in the future just PM me and I'll re-open it for you.