The former MP who wrongly blamed drunken football fans

The former MP who wrongly blamed drunken football fans for the Hillsborough football tragedy died today.

Sir Irvine Patnick, 83, passed away with heart problems three months after his role in the printing of malicious slurs about the 96 Liverpool fans who were crushed to death in the disaster was revealed.

The right-wing Tory was a key source relied upon by the Sun newspaper which contributed to their infamous ‘The Truth’ front page in April 1989, which wrongly stated drunken supporters urinated and stole from the dead.

Sir Irvine claimed he had been told those details by South Yorkshire Police officers, and was consistently castigated by campaigners over two decades for spreading malicious gossip.

On September 13, this year, one day after the explosive release of the Independent Hillsborough Report which fully laid bare the cover-up surrounding the disaster and exposed the genesis for the Sun’s pilloried front page, Mr Patnick issued an apology.

He said he was “deeply and sincerely sorry” for the part he played in the scandal and insisted he was given “wholly inaccurate” information by some members of the police and was “appalled” at the extent of the cover-up.


http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sir-irvine-patnick-dead-ex-mp-1511941

i was at the ground that day as you know kev, shocking disaster,
ive just read about this myself, politicians need to realise,THE TRUTH WILL CATCH THEM UP

i was outside it was doing alpine so i only saw from the outsides