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Two retired cops and former solicitor ‘altered statements about Hillsborough disaster’
TWO retired cops and a former police solicitor are said to have altered statements about the Hillsborough disaster to “mask” force failings.
Ex-South Yorks Chief Supt Donald Denton, 83, ex-Det Chief Insp Alan Foster, 74, and Peter Metcalf, 71 tried to “minimise” blame a jury heard.
Ex-South Yorks Chief Supt Donald Denton, 83, tried to ‘minimise’ blame, a jury heard[/caption]
They were involved in collecting police statements for a probe into the April 1989 disaster, where 96 Liverpool fans died.
Sarah Whitehouse QC, prosecuting at the Salford court, said: “Accounts were altered by them, or at their direction.
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“The effect was to mask . . . failings.”
Denton, of Sheffield, Foster, of Harrogate, North Yorks, and Metcalf, of Ilkley, West Yorks, all deny perverting justice.
The trial continues.
