Hillsborough, Grenfell and nuclear test victims unite to demand end to cover-ups

The victims of half a century of tragedy and public scandal have united to launch a new law that would end a culture of cover-up by successive British governments.

Relatives of those who died in Hillsborough and the Grenfell Tower fire, as well as those affected by the tainted blood scandal, nuclear weapons testing, Covid-19 and gas leaks are pressing in for all political parties to adopt a "Hillsborough Act" in their manifestos before the next general election.

They're calling for a legal duty of candor, state-funded attorneys, and a bereavement charter. This comes 5 years after Bishop James Jones wrote a report on the Hillsborough tragedy calling for the same things, to which the government has yet to respond.

Steve Purse, whose father David took part in nuclear weapons experiments at Maralinga, South Australia, was born with undiagnosable disabilities and told the Prime Minister last month he feared for his health her 14-month-old son Sascha.

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“Successive governments have refused to study our health and have focused massive state resources on a strategy of delay, denial, until we die,” he said. "Millions of pounds have been spent fighting war pensions and lawsuits. Our fathers' medical records have been ripped out and false information given. This is a crime."

He said veterans of Cold War radiation experiments were ordered to sail, fly and crawl through the fallout, but the Department of Defense has spent 7 decades denying any contamination possible.

“We have Ministry of Defense documents indicating that the men would undergo blood tests. We have witnesses who say that their blood was taken. Today, the Ministry of Defense refuses to show us these files ", did he declare. "We need a Hillsborough law now."