Hillsborough Law: Forcing officials to tell the truth.

A law will go through Parliament, meaning that any public servant who covers up information in the wake of a disaster faces possible imprisonment of up to two years.

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It has been a long, hard struggle. First for the truth about what happened and then for justice. We are talking about Hillsborough as it happens, but we could be referring to any number of great British disasters.

The long struggles, first for the truth of what happened and then – even more elusive – the struggle for justice.

In the Hillsborough case it is the campaign for truth and justice by the families of the 97 Liverpool fans crushed to death at the Hillsborough Stadium in April 1989.