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Hillsborough match commander David Duckenfield, former chief constable Sir Norman Bettison and four other people are to be prosecuted over offences relating to the Hillsborough disaster.
Other key figures on the day include former Assistant Chief Constable Walter Jackson. He was the most senior South Yorkshire Police officer at the ground and failed to use the codeword “catastrophe”, intended for use in the event of a major incident.
originally posted by: surfer_soul
a reply to: OtherSideOfTheCoin
He says quite clearly Walter waltzes. Might want to get yourself some new reading glasses pal.
originally posted by: surfer_soul
a reply to: OtherSideOfTheCoin
He says quite clearly Walter waltzes. Might want to get yourself some new reading glasses pal.
originally posted by: glen200376
a reply to: OtherSideOfTheCoin
Walter Jackson.
In the op if you did read it all.
Walter waltzes away scott-free, as he was presumably promised, when he took on the role.
. . . the families had applauded when they learned that “the most senior police officer on that particular day will have charges presented to him.”
I dealt with two armed seiges whilst I've been with South Yorkshire, one lasted five days the others two days, and I, I took the view because it was firearms I should take responsibility, . . . . . . Another one that I also took control of was the two, we had two riots at Lindholme Prison in Doncaster. I turned out to that, went to the Force Ops Room and took charge of that . . .
. . . certain members of the public decided to make specific allegations against named police officers and you are one of those officers, and you've already been served with a Regulation 6 Notice dealing with those specific complaints. The nature of those complaints and the particular duty you were performing at Hillsborough on the 15th of April 1989 suggest that you may have contributed to the deaths of some of those that died, also that you may have failed to perform your lawful duty as a Police Officer on the 15th of April 1989 at Hillsborough.
. . . did you give any orders or did you consider yourself to be in command of the incident?
Yeh. I considered that I was in command of a major, a major, developing major incident sir . . .
"Yeh. I mean going in there I think, I mean, they were all extremely busy. There was a lot of noise outside. I think really I would describe it is generally busy and concerned about what was happening on the ground sir cause it was an unusual thing you know footballs hundreds of people to be there."