Squire Sanders legacy UK firm Hammond Suddards has been named in an independent report into the Hillsborough football disaster as having recommended the ‘review and alteration’ of handwritten accounts by police officers in the wake of the tragedy.
The report, compiled by the Hillsborough Independent Panel, describes how statements made by South Yorkshire Police (SYP) officers underwent an “unprecedented process of review and alteration” before their submission to the official inquiry into the 1989 tragedy, which resulted in 96 deaths.
