Quote Originally Posted by animallittle3 View Post
95 miners were arrested and charged in relation to Orgreave .

All 95 cases collapsed because the evidence presented did not stack up on a number of levels , police fabrication was a key reason .

Compensation was paid out to the miners who were arrested and charged .


According to the information I have , there are almost 800 files from a number of police constabularies that weren't presented to then home secretary Amber Rudd when she announced there wouldn't be an official inquiry into the Battle Of Orgreave .

Based on the collapse of the trials relating to the 95 miners and the reasons offered up and compensated for it is a rather unusual stand not to look at those 800 files in some detail .

There seems to be a lack of enthusiasm from the government to take a step back in time and perhaps let the cat out of the bag .

What are they and who are they seeking to protect ?

A paramilitary style police force backed by the government to violently nullify a trade union perhaps ?

The BBC instructed to show a misleading version of events that occured that day and favoured the government .

Surely this only happens in South American banana republics and North Korea or China and not a democratically elected government in the UK .

Personally they can shove their inquiry up their ring piece for me but I respect those that do want to see this happen .

I suspect only a change of government with Corbyn as PM will be the only likely way any inquiry will be held .

The Tory government will play for time of course , much like they did with the Hillsborough disaster .
Indeed Animal,

I personally know one of those charged with riot, he's a Rotherham lad, and Silverwood miner, to add, we(as a family, i was only 18) put up one during the trial, from South Wales, a bloke in his fifties and the gentleist fella you'd wish to meet, charged with riot.....

I actually attended much of the trial sitting in the public gallery, on one particular day(s) the copper in charge was giving evidence (Tony Clements) the defending barrister was Michael Mansfield, quite well known now, and he basically proved that Clements was lying through his teeth, most of the time, i've never seen someone with such a high position made to squirm so much, he didn't enjoy being called, quietly, a C**t on his way out either....as we know the trial collapsed, jumped up evidence of which we were to see later at Hillsborough, shame on you SYP, SHAME ON YOU.