Hillsborough dossier to be released

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Jacqui Smith has met with South Yorkshire's chief constable Meredydd Hughes to discuss waiving the 30-year-rule into official documents.

Ninety six Liverpool supporters died in a crush at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium on 15 April 1989 where their team was to meet Nottingham Forest in an FA Cup semi final.

The 20th anniversary of the tragedy, Britain's deadliest sporting disaster, was marked with memorial services in all three cities last Wednesday.

The victims' families have been fighting for further inquiries into the deaths. They believe a Major Incident Plan was never initiated by South Yorkshire police and fans in the Leppings Lane end were denied emergency medical attention.

The families also dispute the findings of the single inquest into all 96 deaths, which ruled the victims were all dead, or brain dead, by 3.15pm and subsequently recorded a verdict of accidental death.

Trevor Hicks, of the Hillsborough Families Support Group, said today: "We have heard that a request has been made and we are expecting confirmation this week. I am pleased, it's better late than never. This will enable us to see the full picture of events in a way that we have been denied for 20 years.

"It is vital that these files are released in full and not sanitised in any way. The families would also like a short period to view the documents before they are made public.

"Some of them are bound to contain information about the manner in which our loved ones died, their medical conditions and so on. I think it's best if we learn of that ourselves and not through other parties."

The documents covered by the 30-year-rule could include police files and the records of other emergency services, government departments and the local authorities.