What happened at Hillsborough? BBC News — Transcript

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1. 0:02Saturday the 15th of April 1989 the FA
2. 0:06Cup semi-final between Liverpool and
3. 0:07Nottingham Forest is due to kickoff at
4. 0:10300 p.m. the match is being held at
5. 0:12Sheffield Wednesday's hillsbor
6. 0:16ground all 54,000 tickets have been
7. 0:20[Applause]
8. 0:24sold by noon on the day of the Cup tie a
9. 0:27few fans have started to arrive
10. 0:29Liverpool support ERS have been
11. 0:30allocated the West End of the hillsbor
12. 0:32stadium so their route will keep them
13. 0:34away from Nottingham Forest fans
14. 0:36arriving from the south this also means
15. 0:38the Liverpool supporters will all have
16. 0:40to pass through one entrance leppings
17. 0:43Lane 10,000 Liverpool supporters have
18. 0:46tickets for the standing Terraces they
19. 0:48will have to enter through just seven
20. 0:50turn styles by 2: p.m. a little over
21. 0:532,000 have done so meaning 8,000 are
22. 0:56still to come in the hour before kickoff
23. 0:59after passing through the turn Styles
24. 1:01many fans go straight down the tunnel
25. 1:03leading into the central pens behind the
26. 1:05goal pens three and four by a quarter 2
27. 1:09a crowd is starting to build outside the
28. 1:11stadium it increases rapidly over the
29. 1:13next 15
30. 1:15[Applause]
31. 1:18minutes flow through the turn Styles is
32. 1:21steady but slow inside a loudspeaker
33. 1:24message asks people on the Terrace to
34. 1:25move forwards and spread along sideways
35. 1:28but high fences divide the pens and
36. 1:30Gates between them are at the back so
37. 1:32the more full the pens become the harder
38. 1:34it is to
39. 1:36switch in the police control box the man
40. 1:38in charge of the match Chief
41. 1:39superintendent David duckenfield and
42. 1:42another officer discuss whether to delay
43. 1:44the kickoff to give people more time to
44. 1:46get into the ground they decide against
45. 1:50outside supporters are pressing into the
46. 1:52turn Styles and alongside a large exit
47. 1:54gate called Gate C by a qu to 3 5 1/2
48. 1:58thousand people have passed through the
49. 1:59turn Styles meaning there are still more
50. 2:01than 4,000 FS with tickets for The
51. 2:03Terraces outside the ground thousands
52. 2:06are now packed into the leping lane
53. 2:08bottleneck stationed outside
54. 2:10superintendent Roger Marshall makes
55. 2:12several requests for permission to open
56. 2:13the exit gates to relieve the pressure
57. 2:16inside the ground the central pens are
58. 2:18filling up Chief superintendent
59. 2:20duckenfield gives the order and Gate C
60. 2:22is opened more than 2,000 fans enter
61. 2:25many head into the packed pens three and
62. 2:28four the gate remains open for about 5
63. 2:31minutes during that time the players
64. 2:33come onto the pitch and the crowd surges
65. 2:35forwards the match kicks off just before
66. 2:38300 p.m. the crush at the front of pens
67. 2:403 and 4 is now highly dangerous a
68. 2:43barrier breaks in pen 3 and people fall
69. 2:46forwards it also increases the pressure
70. 2:48on those at the
71. 2:50front as the crush intensifies some fans
72. 2:53Escape by climbing over the fence at the
73. 2:55front of the
74. 2:57pens it becomes apparent that a disaster
75. 2:59is unfolding and police stop the match
76. 3:02at 6 minutes past three desperate people
77. 3:05are lifted over the top of the fences
78. 3:07and fans in the upper stand pull others
79. 3:09to safety police try to free those at
80. 3:11the front through the narrow gates near
81. 3:13the pitch there are not enough stretches
82. 3:16and supporters use advertising hoardings
83. 3:18to carry the injured the first ambulance
84. 3:20arrives on the pitch at 14 minutes past
85. 3:22three but many fans are already fatally
86. 3:25injured