ECHO reporter Jonathan Blackburn approaches Norman Bettison's South Yorkshire home this afternoon (Image: Liverpool Echo)

Following the release of a major new report into police failings related to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, the ECHO travelled to the South Yorkshire home of former senior officer Norman Bettison in a bid to speak to him about the criticisms he received in the report.

Bettison was a chief inspector with South Yorkshire Police (SYP) at the time of the disaster, which would result in the unlawful deaths of 97 Liverpool fans who travelled to Sheffield on April 15, 1989 to watch the Reds take on Nottingham Forest in an FA Cup semi-final.

The report concluded South Yorkshire Police fundamentally failed in its planning for the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Not

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