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POLICE officers stood for a minute’s silence yesterday to remember the 96 football fans who died at Hillsborough in a symbolic display of reckoning with the police’s role in the tragedy.
Police Federation chairman Steve White led 1,200 members in the unprecedented tribute at the union’s annual conference in Bournemouth.
It comes just weeks after the Hillsborough inquiry found failures by the police and ambulance service “caused or contributed” to the disaster and that victims had been unlawfully killed.
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