Police used as an instrument of the state. Police assaulting strikers. Police proven to commit perjury. Police proven to have falsely imprisoned 74 strikers. Many of the same officers and top brass involved as hillsbrough. Media proven to have lied through their back teeth. Politicians proven to have lied through their back teeth. What reason could their possibly be to want an inquiry? How could anyone possibly discredit Thatcher's government?

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Quote cornwalls palace at 24 Oct 2012 9.37am

He was right!!!...and we killed him!!... poor Orpinton Eagles........

Which is why we need an equity. No one convicted get hundreds kept on remand beer on falsified police evidence. To do nothing does nothing to offer closure here.

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"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

Those who dismiss the concerns about Orgreave seemingly just because of political bias (ie only the left's actions/errors should be subject to review) should IMO be ashamed of themselves and show their true colours as biased propagandists.

If this wasn't a clear cut case of seeming way OTT state-sponsored violence and abuse of police powers,nothing ever will be...

"A former police officer who was at the 1984 “Battle of Orgreave” says police had been told to use “as much force as possible” against striking miners.
Police clashed with miners at the Orgreave coke plant in South Yorkshire, on 18 June – and campaigners want a new inquiry into policing on the day.
The ex-Merseyside constable told the BBC senior officers “were anticipating trouble and in some ways relishing it”.

...Speaking to the BBC, the officer – who asked to remain anonymous – said senior South Yorkshire Police officers briefed them the night before the 18 June clashes.
He was among about 6,000 officers called in to bolster police ranks protecting the Orgreave coke works.

“They were anticipating trouble and in some ways relishing it and looking forward to it,” he said.
“It was a licence to do what we wanted, which I didn’t think was right because we didn’t know what was going to happen.”
He said officers had been ordered to charge a largely peaceful crowd.
“There were running battles and miners were falling over and police officers were batoning them,” the officer said.
“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I was just seeing police officers attack people. These were people on the ground and even if they weren’t doing anything – just walking away – police officers had their batons and they were just hitting people.”

Stefan Wysocki was one of the 95 miners who was arrested at Orgreave. He was accused of throwing a stone.
He said: “They marched me back down the hill to the line of police officers with shields and bounced me off them. The line opened up and they knocked ten bells of crap out of me. I was punched and kicked.”
Most of the miners were charged with riot or unlawful assembly.
They had faced long prison sentences, but the case collapsed in court a year later and they were all cleared. There have been allegations that police officers had been told what to write in their statements to justify more serious charges."

Matt

Very good.
Here is a link :

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In response to your numbering:

1.You appear not to have read carefully what the ex-police officer said in the piece I referred to

2.Attacking "ther left" in a generic manner about unconnected events is rather transparently unmeritorious,no?Deal wiyth Orgrerave on its own terms.

3. Where large numbers of people appear to have been brutally assaulted by police in our green and pleasant land and there indications large numbers of police were complicit in perjury and in people being unlawfully detained and charged,I would hope people might think (even 30 years on) that deserved thorough inquiry,both to set the record straight and as an example to encourage something similar to never happen again.

If you and Willo,see no merit in my points (presumably because they are not knocking the left or demanding an inquiry into the left's actions),so be it but I am less than impressed.If the following isn't a scandal,nothing is.

"Officers had arrested and charged 95 miners with riot, an offence of collective violence carrying a potential life sentence. Yet in July 1985 the prosecution withdrew and all the miners were were acquitted after the evidence of some police officers, including those in command, had been discredited under cross-examination.

In 1991 South Yorkshire police paid £425,000 compensation to 39 miners who had sued the force for assault, unlawful arrest and malicious prosecution. But still the police did not admit any fault, and not a single police officer was ever disciplined or prosecuted".

,,,in its report, finally published last month, the IPCC found “support for the allegation” that three senior police officers in command at Orgreave had “made up an untrue account exaggerating the degree of violence (in particular missile throwing)” from miners to justify their use of force and the charges of riot. The report said one of these most senior officers had his statement typed and witnessed by another officer who led a team of detectives which, the IPCC said, dictated those identical opening paragraphs of junior officers’ statements.The report says the BBC had indeed reversed footage in its news broadcast that night (to make it look like the miners started the violence) , an accusation the BBC has never officially accepted.

Explosively, the IPCC revealed for the first time that South Yorkshire police, when contemplating the civil claims, recognised there had been some excessive violence by officers and perjury in the trial that followed, but covered it up. The force settled the claims, the IPCC stated, “very much prompted” by senior officers’ knowledge of this misconduct."

Off to work now...

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