""I suspect that such things had been going on long before Hillsborough. Just that nobody thought the police would do anything as dishonourable as tell lies to convict the innocent, or falsify their records to cover their arses.""

Damn right John.

Achmelvich just mentioned those who were jailed for the bombings. They were later released because their convictions were considered unsafe due to the way the police handled the cases. They were NOT proved innocent and they probably weren't. But the police acted wrongly in strengthening the case against them.

I believe they were jailed in 1975, just a tad before Callaghan lost his job, and released in 1991 while Maggie still held hers.

Don T.