7th April 2009

Steve Barnard
259 Myrtle Road
Sheffield
S2 3HH

0114 296 7396

Dear Sir,

Almost 20 years ago I was excited as I was going to see an FA Cup Semi-Final at Hillsborough, the home of my favourite team. I got to the ground expecting to see a great game of football instead I witnessed carnage and the death of 96 people.

This tragedy was one of the worse in worldwide football history. It is of course remembered in Liverpool where so many of the dead were from but in Sheffield we tend to forget about it. There needs to be an appropriate memorial inside theHillsborough football ground and an act of remembrance on 15 April.

The people affected by this disaster were not just from Liverpool. There were many local people, fans from Nottingham and other places, who attended the match who will never forget the horrors they saw. We need to have a place where we can go to remember those who died and to reflect on that terrible event.

We have not been able to learn any lessons from this tragedy as there has never been a full inquiry. Those who lost loved ones have never had a sense of closure and we can only hope that this disaster will not repeat itself again.

Yours sincerely

Steve Barnard
Green Party European Parliament candidate Yorkshire & the Humber