I REFER to the coroner’s verdict regarding the Hillsborough disaster way back in 1989 (The Press, April 27).

The final coroner’s verdict is that the 96 people, who did the innocent thing of going to watch a football match 27 years ago, were unlawfully killed.

Having been born in Liverpool back in 1951, I was extremely traumatised by the disaster, although I was not directly involved in it.

For 27 years now, the people of Liverpool have had to live with the accusations that their loved ones who died, and other Liverpool fans, were a drunken bunch of football hooligans.

At long last Liverpool fans and Liverpudlians have been exonerated. The old saying jumps to mind: “The truth will out eventually.” Why does it have to take so long to do so?

The establishment of this land has a lot to answer to, as do the people throwing those obnoxious and dreadful accusations against the fans that were there that day.

Howard Perry, St James Place, Dringhouses, York