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ANNE WILLIAMS VS THE CORONER
Anne Williams's son Kevin was 15 when he died at Hillsborough. A coroner ruled everyone dead by 3.15pm, then heard no evidence about anything after it.
The coroner was Dr Stefan Popper. Home Secretary Theresa May told the Commons in 2012 that he acted on medical advice from pathologists.
Anne was sure Kevin was alive until about 4pm, so she tracked down the people who had tried to save him. Her MP, Stephen Mosley, put their accounts to the Commons on 22 October 2012.
Video showed Kevin being lifted out of pen 3 at 3.28pm. At 3.31pm an off-duty fire officer carried him across the pitch and said he was alive. At 3.37pm an off-duty police officer, Derek Bruder, was resuscitating him and later testified he was alive.
Special constable Debra Martin said Kevin opened his eyes, said Mum and died just before 4pm.
So the official record says Kevin was dead by 3.15pm. The people with him say he was alive at 3.31pm, at 3.37pm and shortly before 4pm.
Mosley also told the Commons that West Midlands Police visited Debra Martin at home 4 times and pressed her to change her statement. He said she signed the second version without reading it. Martin has said she stands by her original account.
Anne took the evidence to the Attorney General and the European Court of Human Rights. She was turned down. Mosley told MPs it had already gone to 3 previous Attorneys General.
On 12 September 2012 the Hillsborough Independent Panel reported that 41 of the dead had the potential to survive after 3.15pm. It called the cut-off unsustainable. It also found that 164 police statements had been significantly altered, 116 of them to remove content unfavourable to South Yorkshire Police.
The High Court quashed the original verdicts on 19 December 2012. Anne was terminally ill by then. She died on 18 April 2013, aged 62.
One point is still disputed. At the new inquests in 2016, expert witnesses said Debra Martin's 4pm account was not plausible. They found Derek Bruder's account of a pulse at 3.32pm plausible, and Martin told the inquests she stood by her evidence.
The records show Kevin was alive after 3.15pm. How long after is still argued over.
The Hillsborough Law cleared the Commons on 14 July 2026 and is now in the Lords, where committee stage began on 12 October. Backed by the Hillsborough Law Now campaign @NowHillsborough, it puts a legal duty of candour on public officials and creates an offence of misleading the public.
Anne Williams died on 18 April 2013, aged 62, four months after the High Court quashed the verdict on her son.
Had a pint with palace fans y’day, all saying close to jibbing it, ticket prices, banned for sharing tickets, games 8pm on a sat etc decades supporting our clubs, left feeling so disillusioned with footy, we’ll be replaced by ‘tourists’ & clubs will wonder why it’s become so shit
Once again censorship from our club and owners on fans voicing their anger at the destruction of our club in the ground today.
@TraMufc and @The__1958 banners confiscated by stewards and lads ejected from the ground.
This isn't about results, this isn't about performances. This is about generational decay of terrace culture, loyalty and our clubs dignity.
More to follow ....
The 1958 🇾🇪
If I thought Hamlet/radiohead was random combo then a flower shop of the Harrow rd with jazz combo in the back room, A list cocktails and Sri Lankan curry defo topped it last night!
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See also…..penalty awarded in the prem this week for a shirt pull…..
The refs' party line - the Isak shirt pull was prolonged but didn't impede his ability to reach the ball. We can now look forward to the complete disappearance of shirt pulling from the game going forwards, as players know for sure that it has no impact on their opponents. Sound
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Took the kids to see Hamelt/hail to the thief last night, lad said it was the most amazing thing he’d ever seen, little girl not so much!
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Worth a read if you want to improve your photo taking on iPhone, yes I’m talking to my wife here!!
A professional photographer who shoots half his work on an iPhone told me the biggest difference between amateur iPhone photos and professional-looking ones isn’t the camera.
It’s the three seconds before you press the shutter.
He’s shot entire engagement sessions, product catalogs, and travel films on an iPhone. He’s seen people with a $1,300 iPhone take photos worse than someone with a $200 phone — and people with an older iPhone take photos that look like magazine covers.
He doesn’t sell presets. He doesn’t work for Apple. He doesn’t care which phone you use.
He shoots every day, edits hundreds of photos a week, and sees the same mistakes over and over.
His average fix: light, distance, and one tap on the screen.
He told me something most iPhone users have never considered:
“Your iPhone camera is not taking bad photos. You are giving it bad conditions. Bad light, dirty lens, digital zoom, no focus point, no exposure control — then blaming the phone when the photo looks flat.”
He said the entire “my iPhone camera is not good enough” problem is built on habits, not hardware.
“There’s no secret setting. There’s no filter that fixes everything. There’s no need to buy the newest iPhone just to take better photos. You need to understand light, framing, and the settings already inside your phone.”
He showed me 9 things most people get wrong about iPhone photography — and the exact routine he uses before every important shot.
Here’s the full playbook:🧵👇
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As I said yesterday, when you read the research Paul Tomkins has done you see a different, more depressing game…..
The refereeing Liverpool have been subjected to, particularly at Anfield, is genuinely staggering. And I’m tired of legitimate criticism being dismissed as “sour grapes” before anyone even bothers to look at the evidence.
Paul Tomkins has researched this extensively, going back decades and some of his findings are genuinely ridiculous.
Consider these stats from his April 2026 study:
• ZERO opposition players have received a foul-related DOGSO red card at Anfield since 2009. That’s 325 home league games without an opponent being sent off for denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity through a foul.
• 3 Liverpool players received DOGSO red cards at Anfield in just 28 games under Slot. More than opposition players received at Anfield in the previous 25 years combined.
• Liverpool haven’t received a penalty in the opening 15 minutes of a league match with fans present since December 2012. Man City received 14 (!!) in that same period.
• Liverpool went 305 consecutive league matches between 2015 & 2023 without an opposition player receiving a 2nd yellow. That’s 8 years. Home or away.
• Since VAR was introduced, Liverpool have received just 2 VAR-awarded penalties for fouls. Man City received 11. Liverpool have also had 7 awarded against them.
• Liverpool received ZERO subjective VAR overturns in their favour before the 28th minute across approximately 260 matches. Man United received 7, Arsenal 6 & Man City 6.
• Salah averaged just 0.83 fouls won per 90 minutes, ranking outside the top 2,000 players in Tomkins’ study. Anyone who watched Salah knows how ridiculous that is given how frequently he’s grabbed, pulled & manhandled.
• Liverpool’s average foul free-kicks won dropped from around 12-13 per game before Klopp to just 9 after his arrival. Only Sheffield United recorded fewer in Tomkins’ comparison.
• Only 51% of Liverpool’s penalties were awarded at Anfield, compared to approximately 63% at home across the league. Some home advantage, eh?
And perhaps the most damning stat of all:
Of the 56 highly contentious league incidents Tomkins identified against Liverpool in the VAR era, 53 (95%) happened when the match was level or separated by just 1 goal.
These are game-changing decisions. Penalties, red cards & incidents that can genuinely decide matches, title races & entire seasons.
Think about Tarkowski’s challenge on Mac Allister, Ødegaard practically playing basketball at Anfield, Senesi’s handball or Salah getting manhandled every other week without a whistle. Oh, and literally disallowing a completely valid goal at Tottenham (no, YOU let it go).
At what point do we stop pretending this is normal?
And what frustrates me most is how quickly people dismiss the conversation as “sour grapes.” As if being a Liverpool supporter somehow invalidates the evidence. You can be biased & still be absolutely right.
I’m not suggesting these stats automatically prove some grand conspiracy, but the disparities are extraordinary. And when you actually watch the incidents themselves, it’s difficult to understand how some of these decisions are even possible.
We’re talking about penalties & red cards. Literally the most consequential decisions a referee can make. And somehow Liverpool consistently find themselves on the wrong end of them, even at Anfield - especially at Anfield - where we’re supposedly benefiting from this enormous home advantage.
Why shouldn’t that be questioned?
Credit to Paul Tomkins for actually doing the research & documenting this over the years.
Full analysis:
tomkinstimes.substack.com/p/…
But sure, “sour grapes.”
#LFC
