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Critical thinking and questioning minds – Call to action from Hillsborough justice campaigner

The importance of helping our students to develop “critical and questioning minds” has been underlined by one of the people who helped win justice for the victims of the Hillsborough disaster.

Professor Phil Scraton was given a standing ovation at the SSAT National Conference after he described how he fought for nearly 30 years to find out the truth about the disaster.

A professor of criminology at the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, in the Queen’s University School of Law in Belfast described to teachers at the event just how he had pieced together evidence that had been withheld from the initial inquiry. Speaking to individuals who had refused to cooperate with the official line given by the police and other emergency services, he arrived at the conclusion that there had been a huge cover-up in the investigations into the disaster.

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