No apology for bombing deaths

Following the release of thousands of official documents relating to Britain’s deadliest sporting disaster, the deaths of 96 Liverpool football fans at Hillsborough Stadium in 1989, British prime minister David Cameron expressed a profound apology on behalf of his government to the families of those killed (‘Cameron offers apology for Hillsborough cover-up’, Irish Examiner, Sept 12th).

Mr Cameron said the report showed the Hillsborough families had suffered a double injustice, both in the failure of the state to protect their loved ones and the “indefensible wait to get the truth”. Mr Cameron expressed further regret that the injustice had been left uncorrected for so long.

Like all in the civilised world I welcome Mr Cameron’s acknowledgement of the injustice perpetrated against those families who lost loved ones in Hillsborough.