Hillsborough Disaster
His role as Parliamentary Adviser to the Police Federation following the Hillsborough disaster is described in the conclusions of the Hillsborough Independent Panel's report.
Following a meeting with the Yorkshire Police Federation, Shersby was invited to assist in the development of a ‘counter attack’ to ‘repudiate’ Lord Justice Taylor’s Interim Report, which had condemned the evidence and testimony of senior police officers and rejected as exaggerated the allegations made against Liverpool fans. Lord Taylor had stated categorically that fans’ behavior played no part in the disaster. Records of the meeting show that the Police Federation considered the Interim Report was unfair and unbalanced.
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