2048 Hrs GMT London Monday 10 December 2012
The © Muhammad Haque Daily ethical Commentary: the state of Policing in the frame of the British "Constitution" - the theory, the values and the reality [1]
UK moves further in the operation of the project for the demolition of the idea of the “Police” as a “solid” pillar of Society and of Societal thinking. This is for two reasons, brought into topical focus today, Monday 10 December 2012: the announcement that Police will move into Tesco and similar shops and even into the Church, rather than be stationed at Police stations and, secondly, the announcement, reported below, by Dominic Grieve [QC, MP] the Attorney General that he is to formally move that the Hillsborough inquest verdict be scrapped.
Hillsborough, more than any other contemporary event in domestic UK history, epitomises the state of the claim, the validity of the claim by the Police as an institution of “reliability, fairness and safety”.
This institution has been severely exposed to the scrutiny of ordinary life and found to be very very seriously wanting!
Other, more recent events, especially the series of claims and counter-claims over the tragic death on 1 April 2009 of the newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson in the City of London have shown that Policing in Britain is overdue for a very detailed review before it can be fitted with the requirements of Society claiming to be fair.
[To be continued]
The following report has been retrieved from the web site of the London DAILY TELEGRAPH in the past hours
By Wesley Johnson, Home Affairs Correspondent
5:57PM GMT 10 Dec 2012
Dominic Grieve QC said he believed the case to quash the accidental death verdicts at the inquest into the deaths of the 96 victims of the 1989 tragedy was “a good one”.
The move comes after a damning report into the disaster laid bare a cover-up which attempted to shift the blame for the tragedy on to its victims.
Ninety-six Liverpool supporters died in the crush at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium on April 15, 1989, where their team were to meet Nottingham Forest in an FA Cup semi-final.
Anne Williams, whose 15-year-old son Kevin died in the disaster, said the decision was one she had been waiting 23 years for.
“I can't believe it,” she said.
“This is my fourth submission to Attorney Generals over the years and they have always come back 'not in the interests of justice'."
Mrs Williams, 60, said she was now "one step closer" to knowing the truth about what happened to her son on that day.
Margaret Aspinall, whose son James, 18, died at Hillsborough, said: "We have waited over 20-years for these verdicts to be overturned and I'm sure all the families will be delighted to hear that these steps are being taken.
"It is a great step towards getting the justice we have fought for."
In a statement, the Attorney General’s office said the application was based on new medical evidence, along with the changes made to statements from the police and emergency services, which showed it was “necessary or desirable in the interests of justice that new inquests should be held”.
"I believe that the case for the High Court to quash the original inquests is a good one," Mr Grieve said.
No date for the hearing at the High Court has been set.
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