W hen the Independent Office for Police Conduct published the final report on its mammoth investigation into the Hillsborough disaster, the response from bereaved families and survivors was conflicted.

Some of the IOPC’s findings could be regarded as historic, in particular that 12 former officers would have had cases to answer for gross misconduct, including Peter Wright, the chief constable of South Yorkshire police at the time of the 1989 disaster.

But the passage of time, 36 years, since the alleged failings is so great that all the officers have long retired – or, like Wright, are dead – meaning nobody will face any disciplinary proceedings.

The report ends the decades of inquiries, investigations and a generational fight for justice, with the conclusion that 97 people were u

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