More than 600 people to be compensated over false police campaign that sought to blame victims for disaster
South Yorkshire police has agreed a settlement with more than 600 people to compensate them for the false police campaign that sought to avoid responsibility for the 1989 Hillsborough disaster and blame the victims instead, which bereaved families have always said was a cover-up.
The force will pay compensation to bereaved families whose relatives were among the 96 men, women and children unlawfully killed at Hillsborough, and to survivors of the disaster, for additional trauma and psychiatric damage caused by the police campaign.
