Hillsborough: resisting injustice, recovering truth

In an event held by the IRR and the Mannheim Centre for the Study of Criminology and Criminal Justice (LSE) and sponsored by SAGE Publications, Professor Phil Scraton hosted a meeting to discuss family campaigns against the state to discover the truth about the deaths of loved ones. Professor Scraton, author of the Race & Class article The legacy of Hillsborough: liberating truth, challenging power and the primary author of the Hillsborough Independent Panel's ground-breaking report, spoke on the campaign for justice pursued by many of the families bereaved at Hillsborough and how the truth was eventually exposed after a two-decade struggle.
His talk was followed by a discussion which included contributions from members of black families whose relatives have died in police custody.