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How low can you go?

What will former Hillsborough police officers want to do next - dance on the graves of the 96?

At 2.45pm today it was made depressingly clear that some cowardly and pathetic people are still prepared to ignore the truth and promote long-discredited lies - in a bid, perhaps, to save their own sorry skins.

John Beggs QC, who represents three former South Yorkshire police officers, including ex-Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield, the match commander, told the fifth preliminary hearing that he intended to introduce the supposed "drunkenness" of fans as a factor at the forthcoming inquests.

Little wonder there were shouts of "disgrace" from the families.

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This was beneath contempt - an absolutely appalling assault on the memories of the 96 and all the survivors.

It was also the sound of desperate men trying, yet again, to rewrite history.

Let's not forget what the Hillsborough Independent Panel said on the subject: "There was no evidence to support the proposition that alcohol played any part in the genesis of the disaster and it is regrettable that those in positions of responsibility created and promoted a portrayal of drunkenness as contributing to the occurrence of the disaster and the ensuing loss of life without substantiating evidence."

But who needs evidence?

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Not, it seems, those police officers who failed thousands of Liverpool fans so dismally during this utterly-avoidable tragedy.

Yeah, who needs evidence when you can twist and turn the truth for your own pitifully selfish ends.

How do they sleep at night?