Marie Lyon
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Really looking forward to speaking at the opening of the fantastic Candour & Communities exhibition by @cfpjustice, inspired by the @NowHillsborough collective. I’m honoured to be alongside one of the finest campaigners for truth and justice, @Malriel from the Primodos Campaign. The exhibition is open to the community all week until Thursday at the brilliant @MACDovecot, hosted at my Centre for Social Justice. Hope to see you all tomorrow ✊ #HillsboroughLawNow #WestDerby
Hillsborough Law Now update - Following a meeting with some of our directors on 6th march, the Attorney General and Ministers pledged to contact @NowHillsborough by 20th March, with a resolution to the amendment relating to Intelligence Services. That deadline was not met, and we are now being told that the government needs just a few more days. This week, we also wrote to the Home Secretary to ask her to meet with us, given that she is the cabinet minister responsible for MI5! However, she has refused to meet us on the basis that the Attorney General has the issue in hand. But he does not! This is what we are up against. The motto appears to be "Tell them what they want to hear, and it will keep them quiet a little bit longer." Well, we won't stay silent. Silence did not expose the cover-up of the Hillsborough Disaster. Hillsborough Survivors were not vindicated because they stayed silent. Silence didn't expose the cover up of Labrats, Infected blood, Post Office Scandal, the Birmingham pub Bombings, the Manchester Arena terror attack, the Covid Pandemic, the Primdos medication, or the cover up of the death of little Zane Gbangbola. Silence did not expose the lies told by South Yorkshire Police and the contempt they had for the members of Orgreave. Silence didn't expose the rape and sexual exploitation of the young girls who were victims to Grooming Gangs. And even though Nottingham Police Force tried their hardest to keep the press silent, it was the voices of others that exposed their disgraceful failures. There have been times when our voices are all that we had. Let's not forget that this Bill was pledged by 15th April 2025, and we are now approaching 15th April 2026! The Public Accountability Bill aims to give a legal duty of candour to ALL public servants and officials. That has absolutely nothing to do with National Security, and let us be very clear, we would never call for a law that compromised the safety of the people of this country. Quite the contrary. We want to protect the people of our country, and we want the Hillsborough Law that was pledged in this Labour Partys Manifesto, because THEIR Silence is DEAFENING and we will not be treated like this any more. Charlotte Hennessy, Margaret Aspinall, Sue Roberts, and Steve Kelly. HILLSBOROUGH LAW NOW.
Hillsborough Law to be further delayed bbc.in/4dAzgm1
Earlier today I waited to ask this Question in the House of Commons but was not granted the opportunity. So with the 37th anniversary of #Hillsborough less than four weeks away, I’ll ask it here instead: What precisely is the Government’s objection to my amendment to the #HillsboroughLaw? The very least bereaved families, survivors and campaigners deserve is an answer. #JFT97 #HillsboroughLawNow
Tomorrow @DailyMirror carries a report from me on the contents of a whistleblowing report that shows the main camp and water sources at Christmas Island were contaminated with radiation during nuclear weapons tests, and it was covered up. Two @AWE_plc staff discovered data in 2014 that showed fish, seawater, drinking water, and the air itself was radioactive. It provided a plausible route by which more than 10,000 men could have been irradiated, with horrific consequences for their families. It was known at the time of the tests, and the whistleblowers warned that every inquest, court case and pension claim since had been misled, with huge reputational risk for the government. They reported it to AWE bosses, and to @DefenceHQ senior management. It was suppressed, until a tip-off last year to the veterans' legal team at @mccuejury led to a secret 8-month battle to find the report, and the data. The MoD has confirmed it was told about this data in 2014. It has no explanation about what, if anything, was done. Lawyers have reported it to the Prime Minister and to the Chief Constable of @ThamesVP, urging them to investigate allegations of perjury, perverting the course of justice, misconduct in public office and conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation. Today after 70 years of fighting for the truth, these maligned heroes are vindicated. They were right. The government lied. And now they have a document that proves it. cc @JohnHealey_MP @AndyBurnhamGM @Keir_Starmer @AngelaRayner @KemiBadenoch @EdwardJDavey @RLong_Bailey @EmmaLewell @MetroMayorSteve @PeterStefanovi2 @atomiclabrats
In 2014, two @AWE_plc staff blew the whistle on a cover-up about troops who were first exposed to radiation, then lied to. Their report detailed the story of Billy Morris, a 20 year old sapper sent to Christmas Island, and an article I had written about him. open.substack.com/pub/whattheydo…
