Hillsborough and the long fight for justice

Death threats, persecution, and hostility were all part of the drawn-out battle for justice for the victims of the 1989 disaster, Professor Phil Scraton tells Daniel McConnell

In 1996, Belfast-based criminology professor Phil Scraton awoke sharply in his bed and yelled out: “They all knew.”

Scraton had been leading research into the 1989 Hillsborough disaster which killed 96 Liverpool football fans, and was shaken by his realisation.