Stories of Hillsborough victims recounted in court by their loved ones — Transcript

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1. 0:05john horrocks was only seven when his
2. 0:07dad arthur died at hillsborough today
3. 0:10john was the first of the bereaved to
4. 0:13address court in what have been
5. 0:14described as portraits of the victims
6. 0:18arthur horox was 41 a huge football and
7. 0:22music fan a regular at liverpool's
8. 0:25cavern club a man described as much
9. 0:28loved dad was a good person
10. 0:32uh hopefully i made them proud hopefully
11. 0:34made the family proud he was a nice
12. 0:35person he was a funny person everyone
13. 0:37says oh my mum says that i remind them
14. 0:39of me dad i'm like my dad they look like
15. 0:41me dad i'm funny like my dad or try to
16. 0:43be funny like me dad
17. 0:44yeah
18. 0:45just the statement just tried to
19. 0:48paint as i said paint a portrait of my
20. 0:50dad it's always been the 96 but
21. 0:53never really individuals
22. 0:55another individual portrait was of 19
23. 0:58year old ian whelan
24. 1:00the jury were told that on his way to
25. 1:02hillsborough he passed by his
26. 1:04girlfriend's house and left two red
27. 1:07roses on her doorstep
28. 1:10it was ian's dad wilf who spoke to the
29. 1:12jury describing the boy he lost
30. 1:15inside i was shaking
31. 1:18i tried to keep myself as calm as
32. 1:20possible
33. 1:22to put over what
34. 1:25me and my wife
35. 1:26taught us about our son
36. 1:28and whilst you were speaking were you
37. 1:31picturing him in your mind i certainly
38. 1:32was
39. 1:34i could see him kicking a ball around in
40. 1:36his back garden
41. 1:37there were tears inside and outside
42. 1:40court today emotions running high
43. 1:43this is such an important part of the
44. 1:45process because these individual stories
45. 1:48have never been told in a formal setting
46. 1:51the final words of the day were about
47. 1:53tracy cox who died at hillsborough with
48. 1:56her boyfriend richard jones they were
49. 1:59studying together at sheffield
50. 2:00university richard's mom told the jury
51. 2:04our lives changed forever that day our
52. 2:07pain is centered on what rick and tracy
53. 2:09missed and what their lives might have
54. 2:11been like they only went to a football
55. 2:14game
56. 2:15the coroner himself said today had been
57. 2:18moving next week more families will tell
58. 2:22their stories
59. 2:23peter lane 5 news