Source: Telegraph
Relatives of Hillsborough dead remember the disaster
Here, relatives share their memories of the news and discuss hopes that the 20th anniversary of Britain's worst sporting disaster will help bring justice.[LNB]Margaret Aspinall, 62, lost her son James, 18, at the game.[LNB] Related ArticlesLiverpool's former football greats remember HillsboroughLiverpool to mark Hillsborough disasterHe travelled to Sheffield with a friend and separately from his father, Jimmy, who was in a different part of the ground.[LNB]After a frantic effort to find out what had happened, the coach firm James and his pal Graham Wright, 17, travelled with told Mrs Aspinall all their passengers were accounted for and would be arriving back in Liverpool that evening but both the boys were dead.[LNB]"I just remember going to Lime St to wait for them," said Mrs Aspinall.[LNB]"When he wasn't on the final bus I remember screaming at the bus driver 'Where's my son and his friend?"'[LNB]The next morning Mr Aspinall arrived home with his brother-in-law and the worst was confirmed.[LNB]"He wasn't driving, he was a mess," said Mrs Aspinall.[LNB]"I ran off away from him.[LNB]"I just said 'Jimmy, please don't catch me up because if you do you're going to tell me something terrible'.[LNB]"We're hoping after 20 years somebody will come clean and admit the truth of Hillsborough. It's about time.[LNB]"We have carried the burden for such a long time and are still carrying it.[LNB]"The families need to be released of that pain.[LNB]"It's not anger any more or bitterness, it's absolutely about the truth."[LNB]Anne Williams, 57, has battled for years for an inquest into her son Kevin's death.[LNB]Only one inquest was held for all 96.[LNB]Mrs Williams's barrister is preparing evidence, which she said had been covered up, to put before the Attorney General to support another hearing into the 15-year-old's death.[LNB]"People are starting to listen and realise there is something seriously wrong with Hillsborough," she said.[LNB]"People all over Europe have been in touch and know what was printed was lies and Hillsborough is a horror story.[LNB]"Extremes were went to to cover up and protect those at fault that day.[LNB]"Hopefully, the truth will eventually come out.[LNB]"I won't go away until that happens and then perhaps we can all have peace."[LNB]On the anniversary she said: "I am going to Anfield because Kevin's ashes are in the goalmouth.[LNB]"I go to the memorial and it gets too much when they sing You'll Never Walk Alone.[LNB]"I go for Kevin because it's like his grave.[LNB]"This year I'm taking 20 red roses for each year.[LNB]"There's nothing special about 20 years.[LNB]"It's just another year without him and without justice."[LNB]Pat Joynes, whose son Nicholas, 27, died just six months after getting married, was working at Marks & Spencer when news of the disaster broke.[LNB]"They told all of us with relatives at the match to go to the canteen and phone home," said Mrs Joynes, 72, who made her calls then went home.[LNB]"I spoke to my daughter-in-law who was told Nick was okay and had gone back to the coach.[LNB]"There was a big sigh of relief and we were just winding down when she phoned again to say it was someone else."[LNB]Mrs Joynes said maybe, just maybe, two decades on someone in the know might come forward.[LNB]"Twenty years is a long time to fight for justice," she said.[LNB]"What I am hoping for is a policeman from South Yorkshire to have a turn of conscience and come out with what happened that day so we can take it further.[LNB]"Hopefully with the 20th anniversary - and because it's been so well documented - it might prick someone's conscience and they'll think they should say something.[LNB]"That might be a bit naive. We are not going to give up."[LNB] [LNB]
