Part I contains an introduction by Chief Constable Geoffrey Dear, West Midlands Police, and presents the evidence of a cross section of people who are connected to Sheffield Wednesday Football Club; (Statement pages 349 - 512) Typed Witness Statements of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club Turnstile Operators: Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1300); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1174); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1175); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1177); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1304); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1366); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1683); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1173); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1302); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1314); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1305); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1181); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1293); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1113); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1171); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1287); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1310); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1182); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1315); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S2899); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S912). ; Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1307); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1318); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1290); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1628); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S2897); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S3079); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S3076); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S3089); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1613); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S2953); Turnstile Operator (Statement number S1865). ; (Statement pages 513 - 597) Typed Witness Statements of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club Program Programme Seller (Statement number S540); Programme Seller (Statement number S542); Programme Seller (Statement number S503); Programme Seller (Statement number S710); Programme Seller (Statement number S711); Programme Seller (Statement number S434); Programme Seller (Statement number S430 ); Programme Seller (Statement number S429); Programme Seller (Statement number S713); Programme Seller (Statement number S501); Programme Seller (Statement number S533); Programme Seller (Statement number S763); (Statement pages 598 - 616) Typed Witness Statements of Douglas Lock, Sheffield Wednesday Football Club Chief of Security, (Statement number S671); (Statement pages 617 - 629) Typed Witness Statement of Roger Houldsworth, Sheffield Wednesday Football Club Electronics Engineer, (Statement number S668, S668A); (Statement pages 630 - 681) Typed Witness Statements of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club Grounds Staff: Grounds Staff (Statement number S543); Grounds Staff (Statement number S1032); Grounds Staff (Statement number S1060); (Statement pages 682 - 687) Typed Witness Statements of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club Lottery Ticket Seller. (Statement number S502); (Statement pages 688 - 693) Typed Witness Statements of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club Car Park Attendants: (Statement number S1882); (Statement number S1881); (Statement pages 694 - 702) Typed Witness Statement of Security Staff contracted by Sheffield Wednesday Football Club. Colin Leslie Gillam (Statement number S2066); (Statement pages 703 - 751) Typed Witness Statement of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club catering staff; Catering Staff (Statement number S1900); Catering Staff (Statement number S2055); Catering Staff (Statement number S1033); Catering Staff (Statement number S757); Catering Staff (Statement number S1876). ... more
Part V documents the police evidence in relation to events leading up to, and immediately, following the disaster. ; (Statement pages 3458 - 3480) Typed Witness Statements relating to South Yorkshire Police's emergency planning and reaction post disaster; Sergeant Robert Burms, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S1277); Constable Alexander Aitken, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S847); Constable Kevin Laurence Rich, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S1357); Constable Helen Kay Pearson, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S850); Constable Barry George Ford, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S840); Constable Steven Richardson, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S843); Inspector Harry White, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S2223); Sergeant William Cameron, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S1354); Constable Gerard Michael McManus, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S578); Constable Kevin Anthony Smallman, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S1078); Constable Paul Branston, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S845); Constable David Butler, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S1928); Constable Keith Wild, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S846); Constable Washington, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S2220); Constable Jacqueline Burton, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S839); Constable Anthony Gordon Lang, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number, S1074); Constable Beverley Thomas, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S1147); Inspector David Bullas, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S1265); Sergeant Paul Burman, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S860); Constable Steven Andrew Shearwood, South Yorkshire Police Statement number S917); Constable Lisa Jane Coupland, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S914); Constable Sandra Fairclough, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S857); Inspector Peter Darling, South Yorkshire Police, (Statement number S1615); Inspector Trevor Harvey, Discipline and Complaints, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S2258); Sergeant Peter Chapman, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S877); Constable Peter Edward Smith, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S2202); Constable David Alfred Illingworth, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S873); Constable Hedley Helliwell, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S589); Constable Fiona Richardson, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S1076); Constable Roger Cuckson, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S927); Constable Nigel Charles, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S879); Constable Fenwick Collins, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S876); Constable Andrea Marsden, South Yorkshire Police.(Statement number S1606); Constable Kevin Michael Hanson, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S655); Constable Andrew John Brookes, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S705); Sergeant Steven Arthur, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S3489; Constable Stephen John Mercer, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S1092); Sergeant Eric Hall, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S556); Constable Lillyan Akred, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S3335); Constable Phillip Hooson, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S2173; Constable Adrian Taylor, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S3188); Sergeant Adrian John Brazener , South Yorkshire Police. (Statement number S1443); Inspector Alfred Barker, South Yorkshire Police, (Statement number S2929); Sergeant Michael George Long, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S2703); Sergeant James Ellis Colley, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S2268); Sergeant Ian Hardy, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S2800); Constable Robert Terence Hall, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S1500); Constable John Philip Jones, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S638); Constable Michael William Hulley, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S2785); Constable Mark Francis Marshall, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S3026); Sergeant George Michael Langdale, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S2592); Constable Robert Leslie White, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S2656); Sergeant C. Naylor, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S2455); Constable Barrie Gover, South Yorkshire Police (Statement number S2448); Chief Constable James Sharples, Merseyside Police (Statement number S610); Chief Constable Ronald Hadfield, Nottingham Constabulary (Statement number S1058). ... more
(Pages 1 - 10) Typed Police Officer's Report Number R346 (2 copies), 1 with highlighted text. Marked HOLMES, Incident I05; (Pages 11 - 13) Typed Witness Statement Number S2238 (1 copy); Short summary: Serial 31 stationed at the round about at the end of Leppings Lane. Fans outside the ground at Leppings Lane end jovial supporters. Crowds got bigger and ticketless Liverpool supporters. Told that fans had broken a gate ran to ground as assistance required. Formed a cordon outside the turnstiles. Describes sight of bodies as he approached the access road outside Gate C. Instructed to guard the bodies of the deceased. 12 to 15 bodies facing towards Gate C. 'Never went into the ground did not know what happened. Received abuse from Liverpool supporters'. Comments on the disaster; ... more
Pages 1 - 21) Police Officer's Report Number R215 (2 copies), 1 hand written with highlighted text [entitled Notes on the Disaster at Sheffield Wednesdays Football Club ground, Hillsborough Stadium on the 15th April 1989] and 1 typed; (Pages 22 - 26) Typed Witness Statement Number S2223 (1 copy); Short summary: Timeline of events, mainly at turnstiles and gate C, build up outside turnstiles from 14:30 hours, climbing over wall at Gate B, describes crush outside turnstiles. Did not know what was happening inside the ground. Went to the pitch on hearing 'Inside pitch invasion'. Saw fans crushed inside the pens and police officers helping. Carried a young boy 14 years, dressed in a blue T-shirt and blue jeans on the pitch. Surrounded by camera men. The boy was put onto an advertising board and carried away with a young woman. Describes the rescue attempts and resuscitations and hours following the Disaster. ... more
Correspondence between South Yorkshire Police, West Midlands Police, HM Coroner (South Yorkshire: West District), Families of the deceased, Crown Prosecution Service, Hillsborough Family Support Group, ACPO, solicitors [representing families of the deceased, South Yorkshire Police and other parties]; Includes, Requests of information relating to requests from the Coroner's Inquests of Sarah and Victoria Hicks, Paul Carlile and Adam Spearritt (1990 - 1991); Correspondence between ACPO and Hillsborough Family Support Group relating to the financial assistance from Police Authorities for Greenwood, Murray and Duckenfield (1998 - 1999); Correspondence relating to request from Hillsborough Family Support Group requesting the release of original witness statements, documents and electronic documents retained on Holmes for use in the Committal Bundle at Leeds Magistrates' Court following Stuart Smith Scrutiny; Requests for specific witness statements; Witness Summons of South Yorkshire Police to produce documents at Leeds Magistrates' Court; Papers relating to the costs of providing copies; Request of copy of Actions issued in relating to the Hillsborough Disaster; Request for David Duckenfield and Bernard Murray's Briefing notes; Request for original Operational Order; Transcript of 3 September 1999 before Justice Hooper Regina v Murray and Duckenfield in the High Court of Justice, Leeds, order for South Yorkshire Police to make available copies of documents requested by Hillsborough Family Support Group on 20 August 1999; Copy of Letters from Nicholson, Health and Safety Executive to Assistant Chief Constable Mervyns Jones, West Midlands Police relating to the removal of broken crush barrier 124A, July 1989."; ... more
Includes copies of Lord Justice Taylor Interim and Final Reports. Correspondence giving permission to release statements and correspondence with the Hillsborough Family Support Group.
Contains 8 parts. Contains evidence from South Yorkshire Police and quotes from Police officers Witness Statements; Part I: The South Yorkshire Police: History: Geographical area; Manning and organisation; Part II: Factual description of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club ground and its facilities; Part III: The policing of sporting events: The statutory and Common Law background to police involvement; Part IV: Policing at Hillsborough Football stadium: The History; The background to the 1989 FA Cup Semi Final and details of the manpower and organisation for the match; Part V: The events which occurred at Hillsborough Football Stadium on the 15th April 1989; Part VI: Emergency proceedings in the aftermath of the Hillsborough Disaster; Part VII: Communications; Part VIII: Appendices: The Popplewell Report and Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds 1986; Safety at Sports Ground Act 1975; Effects upon policing Sheffield Wednesday Football Grounds. ... more
File labelled "Funding for Legal Representation Hillsborough)". Includes index of contents for file, correspondence, extracts from minutes and notes all relating to the funding of legal representation. ... more
File of correspondence from South Yorkshire Police Authority, South Yorkshire Police, Superintendent Association, Russell Jones and Walker Solicitors, Sir Jack Layden concerning the Special Police Authority Meetings regarding financial assistance towards the claims of South Yorkshire Police Officers on the 2nd and 16th November and 7th December 1990; Includes papers by the Police Authority regarding applications submitted by Chief Superintendent Duckenfield, Superintendents Marshall Murray, Greenwood, N2684 and N2685; Appendix showing expenditures incurred by the officers; Copy of Deputy Chief Constable's address given at the meeting of 2nd November 1990; Agenda and supporting papers for the meeting on the 16th November 1990 with copy of Chief Constable's press release issued immediately after the Authority meeting. Notes taken at the Pre Inquest Review meeting held on 30th October 1990. ... more
Contains 8 parts. Contains evidence from South Yorkshire Police and quotes from Police officers Witness Statements; See POL/10/4/5 for whole report. See POL/10/10/70 for Part IV and POL/10/10/T2 for Part VI. ... more
This file contains requests for disclosure from the Hillsborough Family Support Group, families of the deceased and survivors of South Yorkshire Police documents. Including photographs, video material, police officer's reports, Witness Statements, material contained in the Body Files; Includes: Policy papers, handwritten notes and legal advice relating to requests for disclosure and the policy of destroying of unwanted material; Correspondence between Police Federation, Hillsborough Family Support Group, Jack Straw, Home Secretary, South Yorkshire Police, H.M. Coroner, South Yorkshire Police Authority and photographers; Also includes: List of Nominals for Incident I08; HOLMES print out for Edward Spearritt, father Adam Spearritt [Deceased 94] includes copies of witness statements S133, and Questionnaire QSLI/06; Plan of the arrangement of the barriers in the West Terrace prepared by the Health and Safety Executive showing the alterations that took place between Pre 1979 and 1985; Photocopy of pages 35 - 37 of Lord Justice Taylor's Final Report which relate to police control; Five 10 x 7.5cm colour photographs of the Leppings Lane Turnstiles, crowds in the West Stand Terraces and ambulance during the rescue attempt at the terraces; Visual evidence from the Coroner's Evidence File of Sarah Louise Hicks [Deceased 64] ; Colour prints of Liverpool supporters in the West Stand Terraces and on the pitch during the rescue attempts and in the aftermath of the crush, Includes markers identifying deceased reference numbers. PR1/A/22A, PR5/A/17, PR6/A/2A, DB/16/A/29 - 30, NGN2/3, NGN1/55. 25X17.5cm; Notes, agenda and report regarding revised charges for providing archival material; Newspaper cuttings from Sunday People relating to the release of new evidence, 22nd February 1989; Correspondence with HM Coroner relating to the release of documents to the Hillsborough Family Support Group under Rule 57 of the Coroner's Rules, September 1998; Correspondence between the Hillsborough Family Support Group and Peter Metcalf, [Hammond Suddards] requesting to view specific documents, Includes the rules for disclosure, September 1999; Request from Ann Williams, regarding statement of Dr Forrest, with testament from Dr Forrest, October 2001. Correspondence from Liverpool supporter, who survived the 1989 FA Cup Semi Final, requesting information about CCTV cameras relating to a game between Sheffield Wednesday and Bolton Wanders, 2001; Requests from survivors relating to claims against South Yorkshire Police, 2001; Requests for information relating to ex Police Constable N5600, South Yorkshire Police, 2003- 2005. ... more
File labelled "House of Commons Library"; This file includes the following items: Computer print from the House of Commons Hansard Debate on Hillsborough following the submission of the Lord Justice Stuart-Smith Scrutiny Report; [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmhansrd/vo980218/debindx/80218-x.htm, access 30 September 2010]; Correspondence between Hillsborough Family Support Group, Matthew Pyne, Home Office and House of Commons Library with enquiries about the copies of South Yorkshire Police original and amended statements which had been placed in the House of Commons Library, July - October 1998; Copies of the following South Yorkshire Police officers reports: Chief Inspector David Beal, R317 ; Police Constable N7345, R393 ; Police Inspector Gordon Sykes, R109 ; Police Sergeant N2719, R170A ; Police Sergeant, N[?], R343 ; Police Constable N7485, R173 ; Detective Sergeant N7998, R174 ; Police Inspector Harry White, R215A ; Police Inspector Purdy, R217 ; Police Constable N7191, R427 ; Police Constable N[?], R474 ... more
Includes list of solicitors representing the Deceased with solicitor's reference numbers and correspondence between HM Coroner, Hillsborough Steering Committee and Superintendent Registrar, Sheffield Registration District. ... more
White, Inspector Harry