After years of accusations concerning the cover up over Hillsborough, a former policewoman has come forward to claim she was coerced into changing her evidence about the disaster. Former special constable Debra Martin has said she got a visit from two police officers and she was pressured into changing her written statement on the tragedy which cost 96 Liverpool fans their lives.
Ms Martin was on duty inside the ground at the time of the tragedy in 1989 and says her evidence related to the death of Kevin Williams. The original inquest in 1991, returned a verdict of accidental death on him and stated that he was dead by 3:15pm.
Speaking of Kevin’s death, Ms Martin said; “He didn’t die at quarter past three. I was wearing a watch, a perfectly good watch, it was working. Being a police officer, it’s a watch you stand by.”
Ms Martin has said that a female officer and her male colleague visited her on a number of occasions and pressured her into making changes to the timings she had stated. She said; “The WPC was with a male colleague and they visited me at least three to four times over consecutive weekends. She treated me horribly and basically said I’d never been at Hillsborough so I said, ‘Well, I’ve seen myself on film footage so I said sorry you’re lying there’. She basically said that she’d been told from people that she’d got to do her job and that job was to tie loose ends up.
“I’ve always wanted to come forward and let people know there was a cover up. I never blamed South Yorkshire Police at all but when I’m looking at it closer now. Whatever has happened, it needs to come out, people need to realise there are two statements, my original and this horrible copy that has been done.”
Kevin’s mother, Anne Williams, contests the original coroner’s verdict of accidental death and states that Kevin was still alive at 4:00pm. She has set up an e-petition urging the government to open a new inquest under section 13 of the Coroner’s Act, wanting the accidental death verdict to be overturned. The e-petition has received over 100,000 signatures which means by law it has to be debated.
Surely now the government must finally do something about an inquest which was riddled with corruption and the suppression of evidence. The South Yorkshire Police, or those responsible for the cover-up within the force, need to be brought to task for perverting the course of justice for so long.
The time to act is long overdue!
Why, just why? i do not want to hear more lies about hillsborough thank you very much, just give us the truth now or shutup!
The cringing moment when work make you listen to your own call and you remember the sound of your own voice… A f**king bunged up tortoise!! Errrrgh I HATE my voice!!
Might give up talking for lent. PAH!
I Will Never Get Over Hillsborough As Long As I Live!
Zumba was goood! Although me and my mum just laughed at some fat woman grinding all over the place and we were wiping sweat on each other lmao, classy!
Tha horrible feeling hillsborough gives ya
just learnt i cant say the alphabet without singing it and by the looks of it i cant spell it either haha sly bein thick
That moment in time when you switch off from reality and everything is perfect.. Then it suddenly ends and its time to face the world.
Grandma’s funeral tomorrow. Suddenly have a wave of feeling lost & alone hitting me
the police can suck my dick.
fuckin bastards never trust a copper
And never forget the Sun newspaper blamed us and said that we were robbing off the dead on the pitch. Bastard reporters.
DONT BUY THE SUN!!!
Being American I am not as sure of the facts about the Hillborough tragedy but I just think it was such a sad loss of life and if you read the list of those that died just look at how young most were. So sad.