Hillsborough family members speaking at a press conference in Liverpool on Tuesday (Image: PA)

The families of the victims of the Hillsborough disaster have blasted the South Yorkshire Police federation for its response to this week's report into the shocking policing failures which caused the deaths of 97 Liverpool fans in 1989.

The ECHO reported extensively on the details of Tuesday's report from the Independent Office for Police Conduct, which found South Yorkshire Police fundamentally failed in its duties on the day of the disaster on April 15 1989 and senior officers then tried to blame Reds fans for the tragedy.

The report found 12 former senior officers - including match commander on the day David Duckenfield and Norman Bettison, who went on to become Merseyside Police's mo

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