Liverpool replies
I am a survivor of the Hillsborough disaster, so I imagine you can guess where this is going (Leading article, 16 October).
Unlike 96 less fortunate people, I was rescued from the Leppings Lane terrace on 15 April 1989 and so am able to provide a little bit of an insight into what exactly happened. Suffice to say, the findings in Lord Taylor’s report regarding the responsibility for the disaster being with anyone but the Liverpool fans were accurate. I can confirm this not only because I have read the report but because, of course, I was there. Not in the press box, not in another part of the stadium and not watching on TV, but actually among the dead and the dying. I was one of the people who was lifting the bodies of teenage children over the fence and being threatened with arrest by police officers for doing so.
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