Families from across the borough travelled to London on Monday to meet with Members of Parliament for a long-overdue debate on the Hillsborough disaster last night.
The impact of this can not go underestimated, there were 14,600 Liverpool fans at Hillsborough on that fateful day and 96 never returned home.
Some 18 people amongst the 96 who lost their lives at Hillsborough that day were from Sefton and many of the survivors remain emotionally scarred to this day.
My father was in the fatal Leppings Lane end and many other members of my family were at Hillsborough that day while my mother was at home - eight months pregnant with me.
The Home Secretary Theresa May vowed not to block the families' 22-year quest for the truth, meaning they could have access to crucial documents as early as next spring and rightly so.
The victims' families say that they hope the documents will reveal if there was a ”stitch-up“ by South Yorkshire Police and then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher following the disaster to shift the responsibility from officers to supporters.
Roles of the emergency services in South Yorkshire Police are also likely to come under scrutiny by an independent panel looking into 300,000 documents which are being studied in preparation for their release.
The highlight of the debate was one of the most moving speeches I have ever seen, by Steve Rotheram.
It can be watched in full or read in the links below.
http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/video/interview/9935-steve-rotheram-speech-in-full
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