The fight to get justice - Hillsborough 20 years on
Apr 14 2009
by Luke Traynor, Liverpool ECHO
The battle for justice goes on, as Luke Traynor reports
LIVERPOOL’S Hard Day’s Night Hotel, the new city centre boutique haunt, today attracts scores of wealthy visitors.
But around 10 years ago, the luxury bedrooms and soft piano playing would have given way to a much more sombre scene.
On the same site, crammed into a small office of the former Cavern City Tours building, it was where a committed group of Hillsborough families laboured tirelessly to take on the might of the British legal system.
Their lawyer Ann Adlington wistfully remembers their North John Street base that became her working home in the fight to hold two senior South Yorkshire Police officers to account for their actions in Sheffield on April 15, 1989.
Now 57, she recalls the whirring of the office fax machine which brought with it good and bad news in equal measure.
On a memorable day in December, 1998, there were hugs and whoops of joy around the room between herself and grieving families.
The arriving document had told of the Crown Prosecution Service dismissing yet another attempt by the authorities to derail their private prosecution.
But countless more obstacles were soon to emerge in the Hillsborough families’ bid to put Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield and former Superintendent Bernard Murray in the dock.
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